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Mooretown

Townland in the civil parish of Mulhuddart, barony of Castleknock, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile na Móna

Area
28.7 ha
71 acres
Land parcels
18
registered freehold, median 4,255 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres)
Zoning
C2.1
GE - General Employment
Planning
24
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

968 m across. Click a parcel to see it. © Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooretown, from 4 m² to 121,457 m² (12.15 ha, 30.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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 Mooretown.

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mooretown.

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 20 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_3116 (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 Mooretown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

The townland

Name
Mooretown · Baile na Móna
Area
287,039 m² (28.7 ha, 70.93 acres)
Civil parish
Mulhuddart, and its townlands
Barony
Castleknock
Electoral division
The Ward, the unit of the census
Census 2022
The Ward electoral division: 13,289 people in 3,674 households; 63% of households own their home; 88% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Bay, Cloghran, Goddamendy, Kilshane, Mitchelstown
Placenames
Mooretown 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.