Moortown

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortown, from 152 m² to 466,532 m² (46.65 ha, 115.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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.

• P1RU - Rural (Agriculture)
  The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Mar 2026Refuse permission

  The development consists of (i) the demolition of the existing Shed to

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F26A/0256E

• 31 Jul 2025Refuse permission

  The development consists of (i) the Demolition of the existing Shed (2

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0696E

• 26 Feb 2025Refuse permission

  The development consists of a (i) Proposed Vehicular Entrance to site

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F25A/0155E

• 4 Aug 2017Grant permission

  The construction of a dryer extension (approx. 245 sq.metres) to exist

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F17A/0467

• 23 Apr 2014Grant permission

  Construction of a single storey agricultural shed and associated site

  Permission · Fingal County Council, F14A/0045

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moortown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moortown.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moortown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moortown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Moortown · Baile na Móna

Area

1,183,978 m² (118.4 ha, 292.57 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmethan, and its townlands

Barony

Balrothery West

Electoral division

Clonmethan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

933 people lived in 282 households in the Clonmethan electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cabragh, Clonmethan, Fieldstown, Jordanstown, Oldtown, Whitestown, Wolganstown

Placenames

Moortown 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.