Moatquarter

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moatquarter, from 5,726 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres) to 124,753 m² (12.48 ha, 30.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Moatquarter 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.

• 6 Jul 2022Unconditional

  multi-purpose community leisure complex which will be developed in 2 phases. Phase 1 includes the provision of 2 dressing rooms and a first floor meeting room with ancillary areas and phase 2 includes a multi purpose hall with an upper viewing area with all associated works

  Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 22458

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  construction of a wastewater pumping station and associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21757

• 28 Apr 2021N/a

  slatted cubicle shed, milking parlour, dairy, collection yard, slatted tank and associated concrete works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21573

• 24 Mar 2021N/a

  slatted cubicle shed, milking parlour, dairy, collection yard, slatted tank and associated concrete works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21369

• 22 Mar 2021N/a

  slatted cubicle shed, milking parlour, dairy, collection yard, slatted tank and associated concrete works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 21350

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  multi-purpose community leisure complex which will be developed in 2 phases. Phase 1 includes the provision of 2 dressing rooms and a first floor meeting room with ancillary areas and phase 2 includes a multi purpose hall with an upper viewing area with all associated works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 17600243

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 Moatquarter.

Recorded monuments

• TS059-014001 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  In improved pasture, formerly marsh, in gently undulating landscape. Tertiary roads to SE and SW and a national school and RC church to SW. A medieval church (TS059-016----) and graveyard (TS059-016001-) and St. James' holy well (TS059-015----) are located c. 110m to E and 180m to NE respectively. In the late 13th century the manor of 'Donethyl' was possessed by the family of Le Ercedekne or Archdeacon and 'in 1295 Silverster le Ercedekne lodged a complaint against Hugh Purcel, the Sherriff of Tipperary, stating that he had forcibly entered the castle of Dounhochil, broken open chests and coffers, and taken away goods to the value of £500' (Seymour 1916, 151; Marnane 2003, 49-52). A causeway is mentioned several times in the account of the raid, including when it was broken hastily, suggesting that it might be a wooden structure, either giving access to the castle on the motte or across the surrounding marsh (Seymour 1916, 151-52; Lucas 1985, 50). Le Ercedekne remained in possession of Dunoghyl in 1319 when it was granted permission to hold a weekly market, with liberties and free customs indicating the importance of the manor at this time (ibid). An oval, flat-topped motte (dims. 10m E-W; 8m N-S) defined by a sheer scarp (Wth 14.1m; H 9m) SE-ENE and a more gradual scarp (Wth 17.7m; H 5.55m) ENE-SE. As the scarp falls more gently to the E, it is likely that the top of the motte was accessed from the E side of the bailey. The top of the motte is occupied by the remains of a castle (TS059-014002-). Seymour (1916, 151) refers to 'an open hole in top, which probably led into a chamber'. A modern statue of Jesus, is off-centre to W. The motte sits centrally on top of a substantial triangular bailey (overall dimensions L 56m to SE; L 50m to W and L 54m to N) which has a short, flat side (L 28m) to the ENE, due to rising of causeway. The angles of the bailey form three distinct sub-baileys to the E, SW and NW. The sub-bailey to the E is a sub-rectangular area (dims. 19m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 21m; H 8.45m) N-S; slippage on the exterior gives an impression of a slight counterscarp. The sub-bailey to the SW is a triangular area (dims. 20m NW-SE; 10m NE-SW) defined by scarp (Wth 20m; H 7.5m) SE-NW, as is the sub-bailey to NW which has a triangular area (dims. 34m SW-NE; 12m NW-SE) defined by scarp (Wth 21m; H 8.75m) SW-NE. Passage is afforded between the baileys via linear strips to W (Wth 3.8m; H 0.85m), NE and SE. A possible causeway, running ENE-WSW, rises along the exterior of the N scarp of the bailey proper, at its E end, accessing the area between the NW and E sub-baileys. There are the remains of a possible trackway (Wth 5.3m; H 0.65m) along W side which has a gentle tilt downslope and is defined by a low scarp (Wth 3.5m; H 0.85m), possibly accessing a former quarried depression at the S. An outer rectilinear enclosure adjoining to the N is seen on aerial photography (CUCAP 20 July 1968 AVT 49) as a low scarp defined by the cropmark of a fosse; possibly the faint traces of outworks Lyons located in the marsh surrounding the monument (ITA Topographical files, 11/10/1953). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 24 September 2013

• TS059-014002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In improved pasture, formerly marsh, in gently undulating landscape, on top of a motte and bailey (TS059-014001-). A medieval church (TS059-016----) and graveyard (TS059-016001-) and St. James' holy well (TS059-015----) are located c. 110m to E and 180m to NE respectively. In the late 13th century the manor of 'Donethyl' was in the possession of the Le Ercedekne (Archdeacon) family and 'in 1295 Silverster le Ercedekne lodged a complaint against Hugh Purcel, the Sherriff of Tipperary, stating that he had forcibly entered the castle of Dounhochil, broken open chests and coffers, and taken away goods to the value of £500' (Seymour 1916, 151; Marnane 2003, 49-52). Le Ercedekne remained in possession of Dunoghyl in 1319 when it was granted permission to hold a weekly market, with liberties and free customs indicating the importance of the manor at this time (ibid.). The Earl of Desmond owned the castle in 1573 and it was attacked shortly after in 1602 by O'Sullivan Bere (ibid., 153). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) in 1640 'The Countess of Ormond' was the proprietor and 'On the sd. Lands stands an old brocken castle Irepayeable, The sd lands are wast. This land hath the priviledge of a court Leete [criminal court] & Courte Barron [civil court]' (Simington 1934, 48). Described by Seymour (1916, 152) as 'tiny…….The smallness of the actual castle at this period is shown by the fact that four men were considered a sufficient garrison.' Deemed impossible to repair in 1654 due to its ruinous state (ibid., 153). The surviving remains consist of an L-shaped, sod-covered wall (long-axis c. E-W) which extends (L 7m; max. Wth 1.25m) along the N side of the motte. A return (long-axis c. N-S) of similar walling extends (L 6m; Wth 1.5m) to the S at the W end, along the W side of the motte. There is a stump of return (L 1.6m; Wth 1.5m) to the E at the S end. Several large fragments of masonry occupy the E half of the mound. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moatquarter, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moatquarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Moatquarter · Leathcheathrú an Mhóta

Area

370,117 m² (37.01 ha, 91.46 acres)

Civil parish

Donohill, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmucklin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 195 households in the Kilmucklin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvasa, Cappaghrattin, Churchfield, Donohill Lands, Garryshane, Gorteenaphooka, Lisheendarby, Shandangan

Placenames

Moatquarter 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.