# Mota, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Móta.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 839,645 m² (83.96 ha, 207.48 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbarron, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/kilbarron.md
- Barony: Ormond Lower
- Electoral division: Kilbarron, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46005
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 212527
- Centre: latitude 53.009232, longitude -8.265515 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mota, from 335 m² to 656,685 m² (65.67 ha, 162.27 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 509199: 656,685 m² (65.67 ha, 162.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/509199.md
- Parcel 495436: 109,807 m² (10.98 ha, 27.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/495436.md
- Parcel 555018: 19,948 m² (1.99 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/555018.md
- Parcel 516669: 4,338 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/516669.md
- Parcel 509191: 4,292 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/509191.md
- Parcel 502810: 3,154 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/502810.md
- Parcel 532413: 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/532413.md
- Parcel 514919: 2,246 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/514919.md
- Parcel 524076: 1,982 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/524076.md
- Parcel 555706: 1,477 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/555706.md
- Parcel 508235: 1,010 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/508235.md
- Parcel 576475: 356 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/576475.md
- Parcel 585583: 335 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/585583.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 25 Sept 2024, Tipperary County Council 2460816: Conditional. Permission. the relocation of existing site entrance and all ancillary site works thereto. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460816/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Derg, North-east Shore SAC, site code 002241, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002241
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA, site code 004058, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg, site code 000011

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- TN009-068: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN009-068----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN009-068001-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Mota House, house, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 22400620, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=TN&regno=22400620. 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.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mota.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mota.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/mota.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Mota with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyscanlan: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/ballyscanlan.md
- Brookfield: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/brookfield.md
- Kilgarvan: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/kilgarvan.md
- Scriboge: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/scriboge.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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