Moytirra East

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moytirra East, from 319 m² to 185,741 m² (18.57 ha, 45.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Moytirra East 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 Moytirra East 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 Moytirra East.

Recorded monuments

• SL035-077 Hut site
  Description

  In rocky pasture, on top of a ridge. The remains of an oval stone-built structure (int. diam. 8.7m x 7.6m) with sod-covered stone walls (T 0.9m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m), overgrown with bushes. A possible entrance (Wth 1.4m) is at S. The interior is sloping. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL035-078 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This destroyed monument stood on rocky pasture just over 200m W of a court tomb (SL035-079----). The tomb is marked on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but had been demolished when Wood-Martin (1883-4, 458-60, no. 20; 1888, 180-82, no. 2) visited the area later in the same century. He was informed that this tomb was similar in plan to the court tomb (SL035-079----) 200m to E. Some large stones visible in a fence at the site in 1956 may have originally formed part of the monument (Ó Nualláin 1989, 68, no. 109). An account in 1836, which seems to refer to this tomb, describes it as '... now eighteen or twenty feet [c. 6m] long, and about five feet [c. 1.5m] broad, having flags fixed around it' and claims that it had been opened some years earlier when human bones were reportedly found in it (OSL, 171-4). The report also records a claim that a 'golden breast plate' was found either in the tomb or nearby. The indications are that this destroyed monument was a court tomb. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL035-079 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On rocky pasture commanding an extensive outlook to the S. This court tomb is a National Monument in state ownership (no. 465). A U-shaped open court (L c. 7m) at the NNE leads to a well-preserved gallery (L 13m; Wth 1.5-2.9m) of four chambers. There are some poorly defined traces of mound around the structure. The two entrance jambs of the gallery function as courtstones and, in addition, one orthostat of the more westerly arm of the court survives and two remain on the other side. At the outer end of this side of the court there is a low moss-covered courtstone and just beyond and at right angles to it another low stone, apparently part of the tomb facade. A stone, split in two, and set more or less along the main axis of the structure stands in the gallery entrance and divides it in two. Another stone at right angles to the last closes the eastern half of the entrance gap. The divisions between the first three chambers are marked by single jambs, in each case at the W. The third and fourth chambers are separated by a sillstone. The chamber sidestones and the backstone of the gallery survive intact. There are three blocks of stone of uncertain origin between 1m and 9m beyond the back of the gallery. A stone wall extends NE-SW across the W arm of the court. A large limestone block on top of a smaller stone lies c. 30m to SW and is known locally as the 'Rocking stone'. An unclassified megalithic tomb (SL035-078----) lies c. 200m to W. (Ó Nualláin 1989, 68-9, no. 110) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008 See linked document with details from Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume V. County Sligo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989)

• SL035-083 Moated site
  Description

  In rough pasture, on a sloping ridge with a steep scarp down to a stream on the NE side. A rectangular area (int. diam. 27.4m x 26.1m) defined on the S, W and N sides by an earthen bank and by a scarp on the E side. The bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.95m) has numerous gaps and on the N and W sides is overgrown with bushes. An external fosse (Wth 1.7m; D 0.5m) is evident on the W and N sides. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.7m) near the SW corner with a causeway across the fosse. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Moytirra East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Moytirra East · Maigh Tuireadh Thoir

Area

790,036 m² (79 ha, 195.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

360 people lived in 133 households in the Kilmactranny electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlig, Carrigeenblike, Dromore, Drumbeg West, Highwood, Moytirra West

Placenames

Moytirra East 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.