Moytirra West

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moytirra West, from 239 m² to 158,062 m² (15.81 ha, 39.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

Recorded monuments

• SL034-208001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On gently rolling upland pasture about 2km to the E of the NE corner of Lough Arrow. The remains of a WSW-facing gallery (L at least 3.5m) divided by a septal-stone into a portico (L 1.5m; Wth 1.9m at the front, 1.6m at the septal-stone) and wedge-shaped main chamber, stands at the centre of a substantial circular cairn (20m N-S; 17m E-W; H 1m). Three orthostats, two together about 1.5m W of the front of the gallery and another almost 2m SE of these protrude from the cairn and seem to represent a buried kerb or outer-wall. A single stone forms each side of the portico. The septal-stone reaches to the level of the chamber sides each of which is now represented by two orthostats. Outside the junction of the two stones at each side there is a small stone apparently intended to strengthen the wall and there is another outside the end of the eastern of the two orthostats at the N side. A single roofstone resting on the septal-stone and the gallery sides covers the remains of the main chamber. A fence follows the cairn perimeter at the W and S and there is the remains of a small limekiln (SL034-208003-) at its eastern edge. The central part of the cairn, i.e. that part of it adjoining the structure rises about 1m above the rest of the cairn and includes spoil from the gallery area. This site was dug into at least twice in the 19th century and human remains, a piece of bronze and pottery sherds, among which were the remains of at least three Beakers, are among the recorded finds (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 461-2; 1888, 182-5; Madden 1969, 157-9). (Ó Nualláin 1989, 63-4, no. 103) 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)

• SL034-209001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope of the rocky Moytirra ridge, near the cliff-edge at W. A circular area (int. diam. 19m) enclosed by a ruined stone wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.6m) which has been rebuilt along the SW and W arcs. There is a possible souterrain (SL034-209002-) in the level interior; there is a limestone boulder and a hut site (SL034-209003-) in the NW quadrant. 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

• SL034-209002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a cashel (SL034-209001-). There are no visible remains of the 'unusually lofty souterrains' mentioned here by Wood-Martin (1883-4, 462). 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

• SL034-209003 Hut site
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a cashel (SL034-209001-). A small drystone-built structure (6.7m x 3.5m) with a possible entrance at SE. 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

• SL034-210 Enclosure
  Description

  On a ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 30m NNW-SSE) with a straight N side (L c. 25m E-W) on the S side of a field boundary. It is not visible at ground level. 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

• SL034-247 Kiln - lime
  Description

  Not included in the SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'Kiln'. In elevated undulating pasture, built into a drystone wall (long axis NE-SW) which encloses the base of the cairn of a wedge tomb (SL034-208001-) immediately to NW. A D-shaped kiln (1.35m SW-NE; 1.2m SE-NW; H 1.3m) of rubble limestone. The bowl of the kiln (diam. top 1.75m; wall T 0.6m; H top to base 0.6m) has vertical sides and is slightly in-turned at the top where there is a course of level rubble stone. The mouth of the kiln, which is rectangular in shape (Wth 0.7m; H 0.5m; D to rear wall 0.6m), faces SE away from the cairn of the wedge tomb. It has a lintelled top and sides of rough limestone rubble. The rear wall of the fire pit is vertical and the raking hole is now obscured by earth and rubble. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL034-248 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Not included in SMR (1989) but listed in the RMP (1995) and classified 'House Site'. In undulating elevated pasture, 10m N of the N limit of the cairn associated with a wedge tomb (SL034-208001-). The remains of a two-roomed rectangular structure (L 7.9m; Wth 3m; long axis N-S) with walls (H 0.7m; T 0.7m) of unmortared limestone rubble. There is no break in the dividing wall and each room is entered from the exterior. The S room (3.3m N-S; 3m E-W) has an entrance (Wth 0.9m) at the NE corner. The N room (4.5m N-S; 3m E-W) has an entrance (Wth 1m) at the SE corner. This is probably post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL035-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, near the end of a low ridge. A raised circular area (diam. 24.2m x 23m) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m) along the S arc, by a field boundary along the W arc and by a scarp (H 0.65m) along the N and E arcs. An external fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.2m) is evident along the N arc. The interior is bisected by a N-S field boundary. 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

• SL035-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating rocky pasture. A slightly raised roughly circular area (34m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.8m) SSE-N and by a slight scarp N-E.The bank has been replaced by a drystone wall E-SSE. The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. A relict field boundary (L 20m; Wth top 0.8m; Wth base 2m; H 0.4m) abuts the external face of the bank at S and a drystone field wall abuts the bank at N. 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

• SL035-075 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  The monument, which stood on elevated rocky pasture just over 2km E of Lough Arrow, had collapsed by 1888 (Wood-Martin 1883-4, 461, no. 21; 1888, 182-3, no. 21). Two mid-19th century sketches of the tomb reproduced by Borlase (1897, 186-7) show a portal tomb with tall portal-stones and a low backstone supporting a high-pitched roofstone. The side of the structure clearly visible in the sketches is formed by a single stone. A number of large stones, some of them partly obscured by a field fence, are still at the site. (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)

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moytirra West, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Moytirra West · Maigh Tuireadh Thiar

Area

1,353,086 m² (135.31 ha, 334.35 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, Barroe North, Bullaun, Cabragh, Carrigeenblike, Drumbeg West, Garoke, Moytirra East

Placenames

Moytirra West 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.