# Moortown, Co. Dublin: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonmethan, barony of Balrothery West, Co. Dublin; in Irish Baile na Móna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,183,978 m² (118.4 ha, 292.57 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,530 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 RU - Rural, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonmethan, https://everytownland.com/dublin/parish/clonmethan.md - Barony: Balrothery West - Electoral division: Clonmethan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Dublin, https://everytownland.com/dublin.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16785 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 260649 - Centre: latitude 53.512379, longitude -6.327698 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortown, from 152 m² to 466,532 m² (46.65 ha, 115.28 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2852151: 466,532 m² (46.65 ha, 115.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2852151.md - Parcel 1810012: 267,585 m² (26.76 ha, 66.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1810012.md - Parcel 4877273: 161,521 m² (16.15 ha, 39.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4877273.md - Parcel 1907988: 95,782 m² (9.58 ha, 23.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907988.md - Parcel 1907989: 92,906 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907989.md - Parcel 1907990: 29,277 m² (2.93 ha, 7.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907990.md - Parcel 4443074: 24,100 m² (2.41 ha, 5.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4443074.md - Parcel 1907993: 17,530 m² (1.75 ha, 4.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907993.md - Parcel 4824790: 8,778 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4824790.md - Parcel 1907991: 6,647 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907991.md - Parcel 1810009: 4,625 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1810009.md - Parcel 1810011: 3,110 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1810011.md - Parcel 4787158: 2,826 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4787158.md - Parcel 1810010: 2,605 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1810010.md - Parcel 1907992: 152 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1907992.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 RU - Rural (Agriculture): The Fingal Development Plan 2023 – 2029, Fingal; 35 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.fingal.ie/development-plan ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 30 Mar 2026, Fingal County Council F26A/0256E: Refuse permission. Permission. The development consists of (i) the demolition of the existing Shed to. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 31 Jul 2025, Fingal County Council F25A/0696E: Refuse permission. Permission. The development consists of (i) the Demolition of the existing Shed (2. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 26 Feb 2025, Fingal County Council F25A/0155E: Refuse permission. Permission. The development consists of a (i) Proposed Vehicular Entrance to site. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 4 Aug 2017, Fingal County Council F17A/0467: Grant permission. Permission. The construction of a dryer extension (approx. 245 sq.metres) to exist. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli - 23 Apr 2014, Fingal County Council F14A/0045: Grant permission. Permission. Construction of a single storey agricultural shed and associated site. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/appli Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moortown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moortown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moortown. ## 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 Moortown, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moortown. - 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/dublin/moortown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/dublin/moortown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/dublin/moortown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moortown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin: https://everytownland.com/dublin.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cabragh: https://everytownland.com/dublin/cabragh.md - Clonmethan: https://everytownland.com/dublin/clonmethan.md - Fieldstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/fieldstown.md - Jordanstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/jordanstown-260507.md - Oldtown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/oldtown-260708.md - Whitestown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/whitestown-260924.md - Wolganstown: https://everytownland.com/dublin/wolganstown.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/dublin/moortown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/dublin/moortown