# Moatstown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Churchtown, barony of Narragh and Reban West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 475,758 m² (47.58 ha, 117.56 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 21,994 m² (2.2 ha, 5.43 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Churchtown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/churchtown.md - Barony: Narragh and Reban West - Electoral division: Churchtown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25043 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80868 - Centre: latitude 53.020572, longitude -7.026397 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1018572: 318,100 m² (31.81 ha, 78.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018572.md - Parcel 1089504: 57,988 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089504.md - Parcel 1084540: 39,953 m² (4 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084540.md - Parcel 4390839: 4,035 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4390839.md - Parcel 1031590: 2,826 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031590.md - Parcel 1036903: 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1036903.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 19 Dec 2025, Kildare County Council 2561478: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for a new bungalow, recessed residential entrance, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561478/0 - 30 Oct 2019, Kildare County Council 191205: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191205/0 - 30 Mar 2017, Kildare County Council 17343: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17343/0 - 15 Mar 2017, Kildare County Council 17285: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17285/0 - 27 Jan 2017, Kildare County Council 1781: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/1781/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal, site code 002104 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Moatstown. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Moatstown House, miller's house, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 11903405, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=KD®no=11903405. 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. ## 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 Moatstown, about 1 in 5 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2318, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2318.zip (ZIP). - 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/kildare/moatstown.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moatstown.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moatstown.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moatstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bert Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/bert-demesne.md - Brownstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/brownstown-80234.md - Castlereban North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/castlereban-north.md - Castlereban South: https://everytownland.com/kildare/castlereban-south.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/milltown-80864.md - Tyrrellstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/tyrrellstown.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/kildare/moatstown - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/moatstown