Moygrehan Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Killua, barony of Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 105.2 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 9,984 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moygrehan Lower, from 668 m² to 106,622 m² (10.66 ha, 26.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Feb 2025Conditional
construction of a cattle housing unit with underground slurry storage tank and layback area, covered dungshed, meal storage bin, stock handling area and all site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 254
10 Jan 2025Conditional
RETENTION permission for development which will consist of the retention of minor alterations to the size and height of existing garden shed, also the retention for alterations to the window and door configurations, and the retention of the change of use from garden shed to indoor soft play area, and all associated site works and landscaping
Retention · Westmeath County Council, 2560005
11 Nov 2023Conditional
proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2360384
27 Jun 2023Conditional
RETENTION of existing dwelling and domestic garage as constructed on site from that previously granted under planning Ref No. 00/1411. The amendments include the following: 1. decrease in dwelling floor area from 235 m sq to 216 m sq (due to the omission of sunroom to the side of dwelling which was not constructed in accordance with the original plan) 2. increase in size of domestic garage
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 2398
14 Apr 2022Conditional
The development consists of extension and renovations to existing dwelling from that previously granted permission under planning reference no 21/396 which includes the following: Part single/part two storey extension to side (north) & rear (east) elevations together with modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 22195
3 Dec 2021Refused
Domestic garage, single storey dwelling house, new domestic entrance on to county road and all ancillary works inclusive of boundary treatments, access driveway, secondary waste water treatment unit and percolation area necessary to facilitate the development and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21643
12 Nov 2021N/a
Domestic garage, single storey dwelling house, new domestic entrance on to county road and all ancillary works inclusive of boundary treatment, access driveway, secondary waste water treatment unit and percolation area necessary to facilitate the development and all associated site works
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21605
1 Oct 2021Conditional
To replace existing free standing toilet block with new conventional build Boys and Girls W/C incorporation disabled W/C and to replace a number of end of life existing wood build play structures with new and extended wood built play structures and associated site works.
Permission · Westmeath County Council, 21536
11 Aug 2021Conditional
Permission for domestic garage, of a steeltech style construction and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21451
15 Jul 2021Conditional
The development consists of extension and renovation to existing dwelling from that previously granted permission under planning ref no 20/6110 which included the following: (a) removal of bay window from front elevation, (b) new enclosed single storey porch to front, (c) single storey extension to existing sun room on south elevation (d) part single/part two storey extension to side (north) & rear (east) elevations. (e) modifications to existing elevations and internal plan layout. (f) new detached domestic garage with storage area. (g) all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21396
11 May 2020Conditional
retention for partially built dwelling and permission to complete the dwelling previously granted ref 05/2365. The development also includes permission to install proprietary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 206110
27 Mar 2018Conditional
retention of an existing Biofilter waste water treatment system and associated 98sqm raised percolation area.
Retention, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186103
6 Feb 2018Conditional
Permission for a new entrance on to cul de sac, service road, 20 no. car parking spaces and 1 no. minibus parking space together with a wooden garden shed and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 186029
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 Moygrehan Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WM009-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a small prominent round topped hillock on the S facing slope of a small kidney-shaped ridge, in undulating grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 32m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks separated by an intervening fosse and external fosse. The site has been disturbed by post-1700 quarrying associated with lime-kiln built into SW quadrant of earthwork. This lime-kiln is depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the interior. A roadway running E-W intersects the S perimeter of the monument as depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. See attached section of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 April 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moygrehan Lower.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2381 (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 Moygrehan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Moygrehan Lower
- Area
- 1,052,040 m² (105.2 ha, 259.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killua, and its townlands
- Barony
- Delvin
- Electoral division
- Killua, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killua electoral division: 1,143 people in 385 households; 81% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Drewstown Little (Co. Meath), Kilkeelan (Co. Meath), Knock Killua, Moygrehan Upper
- Placenames
- Moygrehan Lower 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.