Moortown

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortown, from 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 724,949 m² (72.49 ha, 179.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moortown 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.

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  alterations and extensions to existing house consisting of sunroom to side of house and attic conversion to first floor and also for retention of domestic shed to rear and relocated site entrance gate as constructed together with all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 17142

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 Moortown.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-053001 Enclosure
  Description

  A large unenclosed, sub-rectangular graveyard (KD028-052002-) is depicted by a broken line (c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-SSW) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The N portion is shown to have been enclosed on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map, which also shows the S portion partially enclosed by a bank and named ‘Rath Nua’ (KD028-052001-). Described in 1972 as part of a roughly circular ringfort (diam. 29m) defined by a bank and wide fosse containing traces of a possible church (KD028-052003-). No visible surface trace of the enclosure or possible church survived in 1986 (SMR file), however, an aerial photograph (GB89.AF.29) shows the cropmark of a broad fosse defining a sub-circular area projecting S from the modern graveyard wall. A low earthen bank (H 0.6m; Wth 2.4m) abuts the outer face of the graveyard wall at SE and may be the remains of the enclosing bank noted in 1972. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22 February 2013

• KD028-053002 Graveyard
  Description

  A large unenclosed, sub-rectangular graveyard (KD028-052002-) is depicted by a broken line (c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-SSW) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The N portion is shown to have been enclosed on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map, which also shows the S portion partially enclosed by a bank and named ‘Rath Nua’ (KD028-052001-), which may have contained a church (KD028-052003-). On a moderate N-facing slope. The sub-rectangular graveyard (c. 40m ENE -WSW; c. 26m NNW-SSE) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall. Legible gravemarkers date to the 19th and 20th-century, with most concentrated in the E-half of the graveyard. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22 February 2013

• KD028-053003 Church
  Description

  A large unenclosed, sub-rectangular graveyard (KD028-052002-) is depicted by a broken line (c. 70m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-SSW) on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map. The N portion is shown to have been enclosed on the current ed. (1939-40) of the map, which also shows the S portion partially enclosed by a bank and named ‘Rath Nua’ (KD028-052001-). On a moderate N-facing pasture slope. The interior of ‘Rath Nua’ was described in 1972 as containing traces of a large rectangular structure (21m E-W; 6m N-S), possibly a church, to N of centre No visible surface trace of the enclosure or possible church survived in 1986 (SMR file), however, an aerial photograph (GB89.AF.29) shows the cropmark of a broad fosse defining a sub-circular area projecting S from the modern graveyard wall. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 25 February 2013

• KD028-086 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of bivallate circular-shaped enclosure visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. Not visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Chris Corlett Date of upload: 27 November 2018

• KD028-090 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 30m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. The cropmark may be the remains of an old quarry or pond partially filled in rather than an archaeological enclosure. On Digital Globe the cropmark has the appearance of a filled in pond or quarry rather than an enclosure. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 06 December 2018

• KD028-091 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Cropmark of small circular-shaped enclosure or possible ditch-barrow (approx. diam. 4m) visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. The small size of the cropmark may indicate this is the cropmark of a livestock ring-feeder rather than a prehistoric barrow. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 06 December 2018

• KD028-092 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of possible circular-shaped enclosure or possible ditch barrow (approx. diam. 17m) with possible annexe to E visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Pat Reid Date of upload: 06 December 2018

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Moortown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Moortown

Area

1,648,710 m² (164.87 ha, 407.41 acres)

Civil parish

Tully, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcullen

Electoral division

Ballysax East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysax East electoral division: 2,090 people in 706 households; 74% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysaxhills, Ballysaxplain, Calverstown, Glebe North, Halverstown, Moortowncastle, Oldkilcullen

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.