Moher

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moher, from 122 m² to 156,449 m² (15.64 ha, 38.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Moher in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

• RO029-121 Crannog
  Description

  Marked as a small island (dims c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE) in a small lake (diam. c. 300m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on low-lying boggy ground on the NW bank, and near the headwaters, of the SW-NE Scramoge stream. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 38m E-W; 34m N--S) defined by a flat-topped overgrown earthen bank (Wth of base 4.7-5.4m; Wth of top 2-2.4m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) and a fosse (Wth of top 3.2-4m; Wth of base 2.4m; D 0.6m), which has been re-cut as a drain NNW-E-SSW. Gannon (1972) noted an entrance (Wth 2m) at SE which is not visible now. Rath (RO029-122----) is c. 200m to the NNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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 5 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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.

• Moher, Strokestown5 sales

Name

Moher · Mothar

Area

1,410,108 m² (141.01 ha, 348.45 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonfinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

176 people lived in 77 households in the Cloonfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinafad, Clooncah, Coggalfortyacres, Coggalstack, Coggaltonroe, Derreen, Lackan

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.