Moydough
Moydough is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfree, barony of Coolavin, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Maigh Duach.
- Area
- 73.6 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 39,042 m² (3.9 ha, 9.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moydough, from 1,685 m² to 130,068 m² (13.01 ha, 32.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Moydough 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
15 Aug 2024Conditional
(1) construct a new 4.60 Sq.m porch to front of existing dwelling and (2) construct a 6.30 Sq.m bathroom extension to the rear of the existing dwelling (3) remove a chimney along with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460269
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 Moydough.
Recorded monuments
- SL044-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a broad flat-topped knoll, overlooking the Owenmore River c. 100m to S. The NW half of this rath has been quarried away. The remains consist of a substantially raised D-shaped platform (dims. 16m NNW-SSE) defined on the straight NW side (L 23.5m ENE-WSW) by a quarry and NE-WSW by a high curving scarp (H 2.7m) with external fosse (Wth c. 8.5m; D 1.9m). The curving scarp is engulfed in hawthorn and blackthorn bushes and brambles. The fosse survives N-E as a shallow depression (Wth 4.7m; D 0.6m) but E-SW it is broad, flat-bottomed and dug deeply into the top of the knoll close to break of slope so that immediately outside the fosse the ground falls away in a steep natural slope. The outer edge of the fosse E-S is engulfed in brambles and thorn bushes. The straight side of the platform consists of an irregular, slumped, grass-covered scarp (H 1.55m) the result of quarrying. A curving undulation is evident NNW-NNE, 18m to NNW of the quarry scarp, and may indicate the line of the fosse on this side. The intervening quarried space, between this undulation and the remains of the interior, is slightly sunken and has an uneven surface. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL044-033 Enclosure
Description
In rough grazing, near the top of a drumlin ridge. Indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 30m NW-SE; c. 20m NE-SW). It is not visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moydough.
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 Moydough, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Moydough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Moydough · Maigh Duach
- Area
- 736,063 m² (73.61 ha, 181.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolavin
- Electoral division
- Cuilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 555 people lived in 227 households in the Cuilmore electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonanure, Clooneagh, Cloontycarn, Greyfield, Lisbaleely
- Placenames
- Moydough 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.