Moatstown

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moatstown, from 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 318,100 m² (31.81 ha, 78.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Moatstown 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.

• 19 Dec 2025Refused

  for a new bungalow, recessed residential entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2561478

• 30 Oct 2019Conditional

  the construction of a detached single-storey dwelling; detached garage; the provision of a vehicular entrance and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191205

• 30 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a detached two storey dwelling; the construction of an associated garage; the provision of a new vehicular entrance (including associated works to achieve sightlines, gates, piers and railings) and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatment; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17343

• 15 Mar 2017N/a

  the construction of a detached dormer-style dwelling; the construction of an associated garage; the provision of a new vehicular entrance (including associated works to achieve sightlines, gates, piers and railings) and driveway; the provision of landscaping, including boundary treatments; and the provision of all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground, including waste water treatment system and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17285

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moatstown.

Architectural heritage

• Moatstown House, miller's house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former mill owner's house, c.1820, on an L-shaped plan retaining early fenestration with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch to centre and two-bay two-storey return to rear to north. Extended, c.1950, comprising two-bay two-storey lean-to lower parallel range along rear elevation to north. Now in private residential use. Hipped roof with slate (lean-to to parallel range to rear to north). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roof to porch. Bitumen felt. Dentilated eaves band. Roughcast walls. Painted. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. 6/6 timber sash windows (tripartite to flanking bays to ground floor). Timber casement windows, c.1950, to rear elevation to north. Square-headed door opening. Rendered architrave, c.1995. Replacement timber panelled door, c.1995, with sidelights and overlights. Set back from road in own grounds. Tarmacadam forecourt to front.Detached six-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding with half-attic, c.1820, to north. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Painted. Square-headed openings (including door opening to first floor to gable to west). Stone sills. Exposed lintels. Timber fittings.Remains of corn mill, c.1820, to site. Now in ruins.

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 Moatstown, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2318 (ZIP).

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

Name

Moatstown

Area

475,758 m² (47.58 ha, 117.56 acres)

Civil parish

Churchtown, and its townlands

Barony

Narragh and Reban West

Electoral division

Churchtown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

554 people lived in 199 households in the Churchtown electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bert Demesne, Brownstown, Castlereban North, Castlereban South, Milltown, Tyrrellstown

Placenames

Moatstown 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.