Moorgagagh
Moorgagagh is a townland in the civil parish of Moorgagagh, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Múr Gágach.
Parcel 979946
- Area
- 43,228 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Moorgagagh
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.
- MA121-154001 Religious house - Franciscan Third Order Regular
Description
On S slope of prominent ridge in pasture, now surrounded by graveyard. Field system (MA121-154003-) to E. Historically known as Killeenbrennan, founded prior to 1428 for Third Order Regular of St. Francis. Granted to Thomas Lewis on 5th April 1574 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 271). Extensive ruins of church with S side chapel; remains of walls and buildings on N side, all enclosed by low wall with original W gateway. Buildings heavily overgrown and ivy-clad. Church (int. dims. 21m N-S; 6m E-W) entered through W doorway with ogee window overhead; late medieval grave slab at E end. To S is side chapel, accessed through remains of round arch overhead (6.3m N-S; 5.5m E-W); with ogee window and piscina on S gable. To N is rectangular two storey building with huge accumulation of earth in ground-floor; lighted by narrow windows. E and N of this are structural remains of several buildings. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 640. Attached images: MA121-154001-_01.JPG Viewed from S MA121-154001-_02.JPG Viewed from SW MA121-154001-_03.JPG Viewed from SW MA121-154001-_04.JPG Viewed from W, arched gateway in centre MA121-154001-_05.JPG W gable of church MA121-154001-_06.JPG Church viewed from W, with S chapel extending to R MA121-154001-_07.JPG S chapel viewed from SW MA121-154001-_08.JPG Gable end of S chapel MA121-154001-_09.JPG Window in gable of S chapel MA121-154001-_10.JPG E wall of S chapel MA121-154001-_11.JPG Window in E wall of S chapel Date of upload: 14 January 2015
- MA121-154002 Graveyard
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA121-154005 Road - road/trackway
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA122-047001 Earthwork
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- MA122-047002 Field system
Description
In undulating pasture, immediately E of abbey (MA121-154001-). Aerial photographs (CUCAP BDN 66, 67, 91, 92, 94) show low earthen banks enclosing oval and rectilinear fields; many with cultivation ridges. Covers an area of c. 51,000 sq.m. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 574. Attached images: MA121-154003-_01.JPG MA121-154003-_02.JPG MA121-154003-_03.JPG Date of upload: 14 January 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 41.5 ha
- 103 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 9,839 m² (0.98 ha, 2.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorgagagh, from 68 m² to 134,185 m² (13.42 ha, 33.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moorgagagh 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Moorgagagh 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Shrule Turlough SAC 000525
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough 000525
Recorded monuments
- MA121-126 Mound
Description
In pasture, located on a rise with a fall of ground to S and W; crossed by a field/property boundary which is engulfed in hawthorn, blackthorn and brambles. The remains of a circular mound (diam. c. 8m N−S) of earth and stones, with a gently domed top and broadly sloping sides. The N−S field wall which overlies the mound appears to cross it slightly to W of centre. The E half of the mound (i.e. on the E side of the field wall) is well preserved, surviving as a compact D-shaped mound (7-8m N−S; 5m E−W to fence; H 0.7m); it is covered in long grass. The condition of the W half (to W of the field wall) is uncertain; a low rise can be glimpsed beneath dense blackthorn, and it seems that the mound may have been damaged/partly levelled on this side. Attached image: MA121-126----_01.JPG Viewed from E Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2022
- MA121-170 Church
Description
In pasture, 120m W of abbey (MA121-154001-). Much-ruined subrectangular church (8m N-S; 18m E-W), defined for most part by collapsed sod-covered walls (H 0.8m; Wth 0.9m). Short portion of S wall, containing window (0.66m x 0.7m), reaches a height of 3.1m. Low stone wall, N to S, divides interior in two, larger part to E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 626. Attached images: MA121-170----_01.JPG Viewed from E MA121-170----_02.JPG Viewed from SE MA121-170----_03.JPG S wall, exterior viewed from S MA121-170----_04.JPG S wall, interior viewed from N MA121-170----_05.JPG Viewed from W Date of upload: 16 January 2015
- MA121-200 Enclosure
Description
In NW corner of a modern rectangular pasture field, located on gently elevated ground in undulating fertile limestone terrain. Views are good not extensive to S. This enclosure, which was levelled at an unknown date in the past, is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps; it is visible in satellite aerial imagery and Lidar imagery. A circular area (38m N−S; 40.5m E−W) is barely discernible at ground level, defined on the perimeter by a low rise/undulation, representing a levelled bank. The W arc is overlain by a field wall, which preserves the curve of the enclosure. The interior is level and featureless, with a slight slope down from centre to S. There is a mound (MA121-126----) 100m to W. Attached images: MA121-200----_01.JPG Viewed from ESE MA121-200----_02.JPG Viewed from S Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moorgagagh.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Moorgagagh, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moorgagagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Moorgagagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Moorgagagh · An Múr Gágach
- Area
- 414,819 m² (41.48 ha, 102.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moorgagagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Dalgan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,169 people lived in 437 households in the Dalgan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brodullagh North, Cahermaculick, Carrowmore, Cregnanagh, Kill, Ramolin
- Placenames
- Moorgagagh 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.