Moher

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moher, from 247 m² to 112,231 m² (11.22 ha, 27.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moher in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 May 2026Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling & part single storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660243

• 20 Aug 2021Conditional

  construct 1 no. fully serviced, single storey dwelling with rooflights, single storey rear ancillary accommodation unit, new sewage treatment system and percolation area, connection to group water, new entrance walls and piers and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21521

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  To construct a new part two-storey & part single storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, form new vehicular site entrance onto existing laneway, installation of approved proprietary wastewater treatment system & percolation area, together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21451

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the erection of part two storey, part single storey extension to an existing dwelling, new waste water treatment system and percolation area, new detached domestic garage and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20203

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moher.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-040001 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular area (int. dims. 27m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and a stone wall. Within this are the foundations of two small buildings, neither likely to have been the site of a church. Davies (1948, 111) recorded that a coin dated 1573 was found in or near it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moher.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moher.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Moher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Moher

Area

2,390,453 m² (239.05 ha, 590.69 acres)

Civil parish

Lavey, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Waterloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Waterloo electoral division: 780 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummanbane, Drummanduff, Killygrogan, Mullymagowan, Stravicnabo

Placenames

Moher on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.