Moyoran
Townland in the civil parish of Tumna, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 85.7 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,231 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moyoran, from 427 m² to 169,564 m² (16.96 ha, 41.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Moyoran 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
31 May 2024Conditional
Permission for retention of sun room extension to the side of the dwelling house, retention of patio doors to rear elevation of dwelling house, retention of domestic garage and retention of change to site boundary from that permitted under grants of planning PD/01/1123 & PD/04/651 with associated site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460247
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moyoran.
Recorded monuments
- RO004-048 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the SW end of a low NE-SW ridge. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 27m E-W; 26.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m) with some bushes SSW-WNW and a scarp (H 0.3-0.5m) elsewhere. The fosse (Wth of base 2-3.5m) is visible as a band of rushes throughout, but there is no visible entrance. 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 Moyoran.
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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1436 (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 Moyoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Moyoran
- Area
- 856,962 m² (85.7 ha, 211.76 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tumna, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Tumna North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tumna North electoral division: 175 people in 71 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breanletter, Derreen, Derreenargan, Dromore, Drumboylan, Drumbrisny, Drumlahard
- Placenames
- Moyoran 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.