Mota

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mota, from 335 m² to 656,685 m² (65.67 ha, 162.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Mota 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.

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  the relocation of existing site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2460816

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC 002241
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011

Recorded monuments

• TN009-068 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated atop low rock outcrop in wet partially reclaimed pasture with stream immediately to W of site. Area of rock outcrop with some low orthostats protruding above the surface of the ground forming a small circular area or cairn (approx. diam. 6m; H 0.6m) with a single oak tree rising from the centre of the monument which has a cross carved into the bark to commemorate the childrens burial ground. Embedded into the base of this tree there is a small granite bullaun stone (TN009-068001-) with quartz inclusions and is very similar to the bullaun stones that originally came from the townland of Carrigagown North (TN009-065-----). It is possible that this is the site of an earlier monument possibly some form of church site from which the bullaun stone originated and was later re-used as a children's burial ground in the 19th and 20th centuries. Known locally as 'The Fairy Rath of Mota' which might suggest that this was a cashel or stone fort reused as a children's burial ground. In 1937 Moira Carroll of Brookfield, and a pupil in Killadangan National School collected the following story about this monument; ‘The fairy rath of Mota is situated in the townsland of Mota, near the public road, one and a half miles from the village of Coolbawn. There is a beautiful stream running beside the rath and also some large white-thorn trees. There is a hollowed stone in the rath, which is supposed to be used as a holy water font, as it is believed that Mass was said there in the Penal days. One day there was a man named Paddy the Nailer passing by the Rath and he heard beautiful music but the tune had a straight air, and the mane knew the tune and he whistled it in such a beautiful manner that the Kind of fairies sent out to know who he was. They told him that it was a little man with a hump on his back. The King told the fairies to take the hump off his back and make him straight. This man told the story to the rest of the people. When a man named Mick Kane heard this, he said he should go and whistle the tune too, as he had a hump on his back also, so he set off and when he reached the Rath the fairies were singing. He thought the hump would be taken of his back if he whistled the tune, as he was a very bad whistler, he spoiled the beautiful tune. The King sent out word to know who spoiled their nice tune, the fairies told him that it was a big man with a hump on his back. The King ordered them to take the hump they took off Paddy the Nailer and put it on Mick Keane's back with the other hump. The old people of this district ascertain this story to be true as their parents knew Mick Keane with the two humps on his back’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Pages 521-3). Margaret Starr of Lisquillibeen, collected the following story about the ‘Fairy Fort’ at Mota; ‘The fort in Mota is called a "fairy fort". This one is also circular in shape & is surrounded by a high wall. There is an arch in the wall as an entrance. The people living in the vicinity say this rath is inhabited by the fairy folk’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0534, Page 054; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922134/4855323/5012477). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• TN009-068001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated atop low rock outcrop in wet partially reclaimed pasture with stream immediately to W of site. Area of rock outcrop with some low orthostats protruding above the surface of the ground forming a small circular area or cairn with a single oak tree rising from the centre of the monument which has a cross carved into the bark to commemorate the childrens burial ground (TN009-068----). Embedded into the base of this tree there is a small granite bullaun stone with quartz inclusions and is very similar to the bullaun stones that originally came from the townland of Carrigagown North (TN009-065----). It is possible that this is the site of an earlier monument possibly some form of church site from which the bullaun stone originated and was later re-used as a children's burial ground in the 19th and 20th centuries. Known locally as 'The Fairy Rath of Mota' and the bullaun stone was known locally as a ‘holy water font’ which might suggest that this was a cashel or stone fort reused as a children's burial ground. In 1937 Moira Carroll of Brookfield, and a pupil in Killadangan National School collected the following story about this monument; ‘The fairy rath of Mota is situated in the townsland of Mota, near the public road, one and a half miles from the village of Coolbawn. There is a beautiful stream running beside the rath and also some large white-thorn trees. There is a hollowed stone in the rath, which is supposed to be used as a holy water font, as it is believed that Mass was said there in the Penal days. One day there was a man named Paddy the Nailer passing by the Rath and he heard beautiful music but the tune had a straight air, and the mane knew the tune and he whistled it in such a beautiful manner that the Kind of fairies sent out to know who he was. They told him that it was a little man with a hump on his back. The King told the fairies to take the hump off his back and make him straight. This man told the story to the rest of the people. When a man named Mick Kane heard this, he said he should go and whistle the tune too, as he had a hump on his back also, so he set off and when he reached the Rath the fairies were singing. He thought the hump would be taken of his back if he whistled the tune, as he was a very bad whistler, he spoiled the beautiful tune. The King sent out word to know who spoiled their nice tune, the fairies told him that it was a big man with a hump on his back. The King ordered them to take the hump they took off Paddy the Nailer and put it on Mick Keane's back with the other hump. The old people of this district ascertain this story to be true as their parents knew Mick Keane with the two humps on his back’ (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Pages 521-3; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922134/4855323/5012477). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Mota House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, having shallow central entrance breakfront and windowless return at south end of rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered eaves course and end chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with eight-over-eight pane to rear, with limestone sills. Timber door with plain fanlight in recessed round-headed surround to slightly projecting porch with limestone coping. Battened timber doors to rear, one having six-pane overlight. Two-storey stone outbuildings to rear incorporating two carriage arches. Pitched slate roof retained to one outbuilding.

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

At the centre of the townland of Mota, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mota.

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.

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

Name

Mota · An Móta

Area

839,645 m² (83.96 ha, 207.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Kilbarron, the unit of the census

Census 2022

646 people lived in 248 households in the Kilbarron electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyscanlan, Brookfield, Kilgarvan, Scriboge

Placenames

Mota 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.