Moat

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat, from 900 m² to 173,587 m² (17.36 ha, 42.89 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 Moat 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 Moat 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 Moat.

Recorded monuments

• MA103-023 Castle - motte
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to a modern farmstead, located 30m N of a stream/drain in gently undulating terrain, with a broad expanse of wet, boggy ground c. 200m to W. There are excellent views in all directions from the top of the platform. This impressive earthwork castle or motte, which has given its name to the townland, consists of a large, oval domed platform (c. 73m NW−SE; 51m NE−SW) defined by a high, steeply sloping scarp, outside which it is enclosed by a broad fosse (3.5-4m) with an outer bank (3.6m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.65m at SE). While roughly oval in overall plan, the platform has a squarish angle at its NE end, which appears to be part of an entrance feature. The motte was first recorded by Knox (1911, 301). The platform is substantially raised, probably utilising a natural rise, and has a domed or tiered profile. A central raised spine has a level top (c. 30m NW−SE; c. 18m NE−SW) from which ground drops to a narrow, berm-like strip of level ground (Wth 1-2m). The drop in height varies between 1.8-2m at SW to c. 3m at NE. From the narrow berm there is a further steep scarp (H 2.5-3.4m) dropping to the level of the surrounding field, giving the top of the platform an overall height above exterior ground level of between 6-7m. At the N side of the NE end the raised interior spine drops to a broader berm or level area (c. 13-14m N−S; c. 13-14m E−W) defined by a square angle, mirrored in the fosse and external bank. This appears to define the NE side of an entrance feature; here the platform scarp has a gentler slope and there are remnants of a causeway across the fosse. However, the NW side of this feature is now partly levelled or quarried away. The enclosing fosse and outer bank remain fairly well defined, except at SSW−NNW where the fosse is infilled and the outer bank is levelled to a slight undulation. Relict cultivation ridges traverse the platform on a NE−SW axis. There is a low, roughly circular sod-covered rise (diam. 3m; H 0.3m), from which a few stones protrude, at the SE side of the top of the platform; it appears to overlie the cultivation ridges. The platform is grass-covered; the scarp is lightly ringed with hawthorn and gorse bushes, with sycamore and ash trees on the outer bank. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moat, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Moat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Moat · An Móta

Area

1,021,252 m² (102.13 ha, 252.36 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Ballyhaunis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,531 people lived in 1,219 households in the Ballyhaunis electoral division. 53% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynastockagh, Bellaveel, Carrickmacantire, Cloonbookoughter, Drumaderry, Knockanarra

Placenames

Moat 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.