Mooreshill
Mooreshill is a townland in the civil parish of Killahurler, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 136.4 ha
- 337 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 11,305 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooreshill, from 1,124 m² to 373,569 m² (37.36 ha, 92.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Mooreshill 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
28 Feb 2024Conditional
proposed change of use from existing agricultural storage shed to equestrian veterinary clinic and associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460114
24 Oct 2023Refused
the conversion of an old farm outbuilding into a self contained dwelling and also for the installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23799
24 Oct 2023Refused
the conversion of an old farm building into a self contained dwelling and also for the installation of a new on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 23800
25 Jul 2019Conditional
dormer style dwelling with garage, well, vehicular entrance, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19820
22 May 2018Conditional
erect a finger post sign for Wicklow Calf Company
25 Aug 2017Conditional
45 sqm single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling to form an independent living unit and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171030
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 Mooreshill.
Recorded monuments
- WI040-022001 Church
Description
Situated on level ground on a gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular structure (dims. 16.7m E-W; 8m N-S) of uncoursed rubble walls (Wth 1.2m; average H 1.2m) with a door at the W end of the N wall. No indication of window openings. The church is located at the SE corner of an oval enclosure (dims, c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined at the S end by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) with external drystone facing and an outer fosse (Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m). The E and NE sides are marked by a slight scarp. An area at S end of this enclosure was used in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century for burials. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 19 September 2013
- WI040-022002 Graveyard
Description
Situated on level ground on a gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular structure (dims. 16.7m E-W; 8m N-S) of uncoursed rubble walls (Wth 1.2m; average H 1.2m) with a door at the W end of the N wall. No indication of window openings. The church is located at the SE corner of an oval enclosure (dims, c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined at the S end by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) with external drystone facing and an outer fosse (Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m). The E and NE sides are marked by a slight scarp. An area at S end of this enclosure was used in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century for burials. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 19 September 2013
- WI040-022003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
Situated on level ground on a gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular structure (dims. 16.7m E-W; 8m N-S) of uncoursed rubble walls (Wth 1.2m; average H 1.2m) with a door at the W end of the N wall. No indication of window openings. The church is located at the SE corner of an oval enclosure (dims, c. 65m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined at the S end by an earthen bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.4m) with external drystone facing and an outer fosse (Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m). The E and NE sides are marked by a slight scarp. An area at S end of this enclosure was used in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century for burials. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 19 September 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mooreshill.
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 Mooreshill, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mooreshill.
- 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 Mooreshill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Mooreshill
- Area
- 1,363,987 m² (136.4 ha, 337.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killahurler, and its townlands
- Barony
- Arklow
- Electoral division
- Arklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,415 people lived in 498 households in the Arklow Rural electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvally, Ballinvally Lower, Ballinvally Upper, Killahurler Lower, Killahurler Upper, Knockmiller
- Placenames
- Mooreshill 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.