Moher

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moher, from 1,825 m² to 237,253 m² (23.73 ha, 58.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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.

• 14 Nov 2019Refused

  for development at this site: Kilquilly and Cloggagh, Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan ; Moynehall (Cavan); Moher (Denn ED), Co. Cavan. The development will consist of: Ten year permission for (i) the erection of a single wind turbine with a maximum height of up to 169 metres and all associated site development, access and reinstatement works including turbine foundation, hardstanding area, site access tracks, 1 no. temporary site entrance and underground electrical cabling at Kilquilly and Cloggagh, Ballyjamesduff; and (ii) temporary upgrade works at the R935/L6503 junction at Moynehall (Cavan) and along the L2502 at Moher (Denn ED). Significant further information and revised plans have been received.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19447

• 15 Feb 2017Conditional

  to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1750

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

• CV026-056 Standing stone
  Description

  Situated on a small level ridge overlooked by Slieve Glah. Irregularly shaped stone tapering to a point (H 1.55m; dims 1.34m x 0.55m). It contains many cupmark-type depressions which are almost certainly natural in origin. 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 high, 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

820,439 m² (82.04 ha, 202.73 acres)

Civil parish

Denn, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Denn, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Denn electoral division: 707 people in 245 households; 90% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghateggal or Ryefort, Banagher, Drumcanon, Drumliff, Gallonbulloge or Blackbull, Pollakeel

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.