Moher
Townland in the civil parish of Upperchurch, barony of Kilnamanagh Upper, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Mothar
- Area
- 239.7 ha
- 592 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 15,233 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moher, from 17 m² to 203,788 m² (20.38 ha, 50.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Moher 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
2 Mar 2026Conditional
an agricultural storage shed together with all associated site works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2660180
10 Apr 2025Refused
demolition of an existing dwelling house and to construct a replacement dwelling house, new entrance, waste water treatment system and associated works
Extension of duration · Tipperary County Council, 2554
18 Mar 2020Conditional
to demolish an existing dwelling house and to construct a replacement dwelling house, new entrance, waste water treatment system and assoicated works
Permission, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 20278
25 Sept 2018Conditional
construction of new entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area and all associated siteworks
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 18601170
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 Moher.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moher.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moher.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moher.
- 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 Moher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Moher · An Mothar
- Area
- 2,396,842 m² (239.68 ha, 592.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upperchurch, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Upper
- Electoral division
- Gortkelly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Gortkelly electoral division: 594 people in 198 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyboy, Carew, Finnahy, Gortatooda, Gortkelly, Gortnada, Gortnaskehy, Knockdunnee
- Placenames
- Moher 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.