# Moortown, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ladytown, barony of Connell, Co. Kildare; in Irish Baile na Móna. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 829,688 m² (82.97 ha, 205.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,267 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): P1 Agriculture, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ladytown, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ladytown.md - Barony: Connell - Electoral division: Ladytown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/25949 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80882 - Centre: latitude 53.215577, longitude -6.736944 (WGS 84) ## 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); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1065964: 197,396 m² (19.74 ha, 48.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1065964.md - Parcel 1072617: 151,832 m² (15.18 ha, 37.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072617.md - Parcel 4935278: 127,750 m² (12.78 ha, 31.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4935278.md - Parcel 1018901: 51,913 m² (5.19 ha, 12.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018901.md - Parcel 1038735: 22,617 m² (2.26 ha, 5.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1038735.md - Parcel 4331932: 8,363 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4331932.md - Parcel 1084898: 8,267 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1084898.md - Parcel 1045536: 5,076 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045536.md - Parcel 1080948: 1,595 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080948.md - Parcel 1021621: 1,402 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1021621.md - Parcel 4331929: 1,216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4331929.md - Parcel 1034615: 930 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1034615.md - Parcel 1042310: 144 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042310.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - P1 Agriculture: Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Ladytown, Kildare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://kildarecoco.ie/AllServices/Planning/DevelopmentPlans/KildareCountyDevelopmentPlan2023-2029/Volume2SmallTownsEnvironsVillagesRuralSettlements/ ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 27 Aug 2021, Kildare County Council 211231: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/211231/0 - 10 Aug 2020, Kildare County Council 20880: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping & all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20880/0 - 31 Jul 2020, Kildare County Council 20845: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of a two storey dwelling house, connection to public wastewater system, bin store, polytunnel, new landscaping and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20845/0 - 15 Jul 2020, Kildare County Council 20752: Refused. Permission. to erect a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20752/0 - 18 Sept 2018, Kildare County Council 181141: Refused. Permission, 1 home. single storey dwelling, connection to mains sewer, extensive screen planning and landscaping / and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/181141/0 - 25 Jul 2017, Kildare County Council 17852: N/a. Permission. to erect a new agricultural entrance and all associated site works on this site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17852/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Moortown. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD018-029: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD018-029----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moortown. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2687.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/moortown-80882.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moortown-80882.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moortown-80882.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ladytown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ladytown.md - Morristown Lower: https://everytownland.com/kildare/morristown-lower.md - Morristown Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/morristown-upper.md - Newhall: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newhall-80923.md - Yeomanstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/yeomanstown.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/moortown-80882 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/moortown-80882