Moor

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moor, from 76 m² to 81,555 m² (8.16 ha, 20.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moor 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 Moor 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 Moor.

Recorded monuments

• RO020-042 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Traditionally, when St Caolin plucked out her eyes to dissuade a suitor a well appeared at that location. A subsequent outrage caused the well to move c. 20m to its present location but to remain dry (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 80; Lupeta 1912). The saint is Caolainn of Termon More (RO026-034----) c. 1.4km to the SSE, who was descended from the Ciarraighe. This tribe gave their name to the county of Kerry, but a branch migrated to this territory in Connaught and the saint’s church is recorded in these stories. Traditionally, her feast was celebrated on 3 February (Ó Riain 2011, 151-2). Situated towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope. This is a circular drystone-built well (diam. c. 0.4m; D 0.5m) which is dry, with an oak tree holding offerings 1m to the SE. The site of Termonkeelin church (RO020-043001-) is c. 450m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 2 July 2015

• RO020-043001 Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nuns
  Description

  Traditionally founded by St Caolin or Caolainn, sometimes described a disciple of St Bridget's (Lupeta 1912). A convent of Arrouaisian nuns, known as Termonkeelin, was founded after 1223, probably by nuns from Derrane (RO040-004001-) and Roscommon (RO039-043006-), and it is listed as Ternumkrum in the ecclesiastical taxation of 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223). Later it became a dependency of Kilcreevanty (GA029-096001-) (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 324; Hall 2003, 152, 209). Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Raised rectangular grass-covered area (ext. dims 25.5m E-W; 15m N-S; ext. H 0.8m at N to 1.3-1.5m) defined by grass-covered stone spreads (Wth 5.3-7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m) that may be largely field spoil. Some stones which may be in situ from the original walls of the church are visible. There is a tradition that the field to the N was used as a Childrens' Burial Ground (RO020-043002-). Tober Caelainn (RO020-042----) is c. 450m to the W, and a road (RO020-044----) led S from the church to Termon More church site (RO026-034----). Standing stone (RO020-055----) is c. 100m to the SE. (Timoney 1990, 15) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-043002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Gannon (1972) records that in the 19th century the field to the N of the church remains (RO020-043001-) was used as a childrens burial ground. There is no supporting evidence and it is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-055 Standing stone
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope c. 100m ESE of Termonkeelin church (RO020-043003-). Rectangular limestone block (dims 0.85m E-W; 0.45m N-S; H 1.05m) narrowing towards the top (0.62m E-W; 0.1-0.4m N-S). (Timoney 1990, 13) 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 Moor.

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1112 (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.

No address of the register names Moor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Moor

Area

927,905 m² (92.79 ha, 229.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Castlereagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlereagh electoral division: 3,268 people in 1,240 households; 64% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindrumlea, Cloonarragh, Cloonbard, Termon More, Tonrevagh

Placenames

Moor 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.