Moat

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 1,013 m² to 155,430 m² (15.54 ha, 38.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Moat 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.

• 31 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a four bay machinery shed and a four bay slatted cattle shed with creep area and calving area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 672 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24146

• 19 Sept 2023Conditional

  of extension to rear of dwellinghouse, retention of domestic garage & retention of revised position of treatment system to that approved under pl. ref. no. 17/948

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23377

• 29 Jun 2017Conditional

  for development that will consist of (1) proposed single storey extension to side of existing dwellinghouse, (2) proposed domestic garage/garden store, (3) new sewerage treatment system (4) new vehicle entrance and (5) demolition of existing sheds along with all associated site works and services (gross floor space proposed 65.3sqm, demolition 72m2)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17948

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 Moat.

Recorded monuments

• GA087-184 Moated site
  Description

  In grassland. A square enclosure (N-S 34m, E-W 34m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse best preserved along E side. The NW corner has been disturbed as a result of quarrying. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-185 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as an oval enclosure (NE-SW c. 80m, NW-SE c. 40m), the N half of which is cut across by a field boundary running NW-NE. All that survives is the area to S of this boundary which is enclosed by a very degraded earthen bank (H 0.7m max.). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA087-186 Ritual site - holy/saint's stone
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Described in 1937 as 'St. Patrick's Chair. Granite' (Topgr. Files, NMI) but marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as 'Site of', suggesting that nothing of it then remained. According to local tradition, the stone was called 'St Patrick's Bowl', was trough-like in appearance, and contained water. No visible surface trace survives; possibly a bullaun. St Patrick's Well (GA087-088----) lies 500m to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Moat, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Moat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Moat · An Móta

Area

969,465 m² (96.95 ha, 239.56 acres)

Civil parish

Aughrim, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 198 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltragh, Cloghagalla Eighter, Cooltymurraghy, Garrymore, Newcastle

Placenames

Moat 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.