Moigh
Townland in the civil parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 69.8 ha
- 172 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 3,371 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moigh, from 63 m² to 127,082 m² (12.71 ha, 31.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moigh 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
25 Jul 2018Conditional
the development will consist of the demolition and replacement of an existing dwelling with a proposed single-storey timber framed dwelling as well as associated site works. Works to include alterations to the existing access and upgrading of the existing septic tank as specified in the drawings at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18378
29 Jun 2018N/a
Full Planning Permission to replace an existing single-story dwelling house with a proposed single-story timber framed dwelling as well as associated site works. Works to include alterations to the existing access and upgrading of the existing septic tank as specified in the drawings at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18324
3 Aug 2017Refused
to replace an existing single story dwelling house with a story and a half timber frame dwelling including all associated site works. Works to include alterations to the existing access and upgrading of the existing septic tank
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17342
12 Jul 2017N/a
to replace an existing single story dwelling house with a story and a half timber frame dwelling including all associated site works. Works to include alterations to the existing access and upgrading of the existing septic tank at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17311
26 Jun 2017N/a
to replace an existing single story dwelling house with a story and a half timber frame dwelling including all associated site works. Works to include alterations to the existing access and upgrading of the existing septic tank at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17286
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Drumharlow 001643
Recorded monuments
- RO007-031 Mound
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a flat, level, low-lying landscape. Overgrown earthen mound (diam. of base c. 14.5m; H 0.7-1.5m) with a flat-topped, kidney-shaped summit (dims 10.5m N-S; 6.8-10.2m E-W). Rath (RO007-023----) is c. 180m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a drumlin. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 23m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.5m at N to 6m at S; int. H 0.1-0.35m; ext. H 1.1-1.2m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.8-4.8m; D 0.1-0.75m), with an outer bank (Wth 2-4m; H 0.2-0.5m) at SE and SW-W-NNE. There is an entrance (Wth 3m) at ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a shelf on the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 21m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-0.8m) which is truncated slightly (L c. 10m) by a NE-SW field bank at NW. There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-034 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a flat, low-lying landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. dims. 28m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.5-4.5m; H 0.1-0.2m) E-S-W and a scarp (H 0.55-0.9m) elsewhere. There is no visible entrance or evidnece of facing stones, but the perimeter has been quarried at NE. 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 Moigh.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1421 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moigh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Moigh
- Area
- 697,956 m² (69.8 ha, 172.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tumna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Tumna South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tumna South electoral division: 207 people in 89 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmagurthan, Church Hill, Cloonkeen, Cooladye, Cootehall, Foxhill, Gortleck
- Placenames
- Moigh 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.