Irishtown

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Irishtown, from 2,029 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 728,448 m² (72.84 ha, 180 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Irishtown 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Irishtown in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Irishtown.

Recorded monuments

• KD035-059 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.AI.10) shows the cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse, with an entrance facing east. Compiled by: Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 12 December 2011

• KD035-096 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.06) shows cropmark of a complex curvilinear enclosure with an annexe on its northern side, both defined by fosses. A circular enclosure with a small annexe on its eastern side, defined by a fosse, is located within the main enclosure and may indicate a house site. Linear fosses extend from the enclosure indicating an associated field system. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-097 Field system
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.08) shows cropmark of a series of linear fosses defining a field system associated with a complex curvilinear enclosure. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD035-098 Moated site
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.14) shows cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

• KD036-050 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB96.GD.12) shows cropmark of a large irregular curvilinear enclosure with two conjoined annexes on its western side. Compiled by: Dr. Gillian Barrett Date of upload: 08 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Irishtown, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Irishtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Irishtown · An Baile Gaelach

Area

2,099,582 m² (209.96 ha, 518.82 acres)

Civil parish

Moone, and its townlands

Barony

Kilkea and Moone

Electoral division

Burtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

421 people lived in 157 households in the Burtown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burtown Big, Burtown Little, Grangerosnolvan Lower, Moone, Nicholastown

Placenames

Irishtown 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.