Moorestown

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorestown, from 35 m² to 174,858 m² (17.49 ha, 43.21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Moorestown 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.

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE SHED AS BUILT (CEAD COINNEALA A CRIOCHNU BHOTHAIN FAOI MAR ATA SE)

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 181135

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. (TIGH CONAITHE A BHEADH CEANGAILTE LEIS AN SEARACHAS POIBLI A THOGAINT CHOMH MAITH LE PE OBAIR SUIMHE A BHEADH I GCEIST)

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18235

• 3 Mar 2017Conditional

  SHEANA TIGH A ATHCHOIRÚ AGUS A MEADÚ LE CÓRAS MEICNIÚL UM AERÚ AGUS AONAD AERÚ A THÓGAINT AGUS BHEADH OBAIR SUIMHE I GCEIST LEIS SEO CHOMH MAITH (RENOVATE AND EXTEND OLD HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS)

  Extension of duration · Kerry County Council, 119706

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 Moorestown.

Recorded monuments

• KE033-009 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Moorestown Castle: Tradition attributes the building of this castle both to the FitzGeralds and the Moores (OSNB Kilquane, 29; Smith 1756, 196). The latter family appear to have been firmly in possession in 1550 when the castle is marked on a contemporary map as 'Castle Moore' (O'Sullivan 1931, 131). The building is known locally as 'Caisleán na gCúig gCúinne' (the five-cornered castle); though a substantial section of it stood in 1841 its plan could not be determined (OSL). The greater part of the remains of the castle were knocked in 1921 owing to their perilous condition (O'Sullivan 1931, 473). The surviving remnant of the castle consists of section of the SW wall, 5.15m in length x 1.6m thick, and preserved to a height of 3.4m; it incorporates a narrow loop, set in an embrasure with widely splayed ingoings and a lintelled rear arch. At the S end of this wall, a featureless and largely defaced section of walling runs at right angles for a distance of 2.29m. The interior is confused by the foundations of disused dwellings. The castle stood in the old village of Moorestown, on elevated land overlooking the Feohanagh river. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 1010. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 5 August 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moorestown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Moorestown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Moorestown · Baile an Mhúraigh

Area

1,077,172 m² (107.72 ha, 266.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilquane, and its townlands

Barony

Corkaguiny

Electoral division

Kilquane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

422 people lived in 186 households in the Kilquane electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyganneen, Ballynabuck, Caherscullibeen, Feohanagh, Kilcooly, Kilquane

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Moorestown 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.