Moortown
Townland in the civil parish of Ladytown, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na Móna
- Area
- 83 ha
- 205 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 8,267 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortown, from 144 m² to 197,396 m² (19.74 ha, 48.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P1Agriculture
Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Ladytown, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211231
10 Aug 2020Refused
construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20880
31 Jul 2020N/a
construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20845
15 Jul 2020Refused
to erect a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Kildare County Council, 20752
18 Sept 2018Refused
single storey dwelling, connection to mains sewer, extensive screen planning and landscaping / and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 181141
25 Jul 2017N/a
to erect a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works on this site
Permission · Kildare County Council, 17852
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moortown.
Recorded monuments
- KD018-029 Enclosure
Description
Visible on an aerial photo (GSI N 375-6) as the cropmark of a rectangular enclosure. On level pasture. No visible surface trace of the feature survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moortown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2687 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
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. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Moortown · Baile na Móna
- Area
- 829,688 m² (82.97 ha, 205.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ladytown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connell
- Electoral division
- Ladytown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ladytown electoral division: 990 people in 317 households; 90% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ladytown, Morristown Lower, Morristown Upper, Newhall, Yeomanstown
- Placenames
- Moortown 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.