Moortowncastle

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortowncastle, from 134 m² to 277,317 m² (27.73 ha, 68.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Moortowncastle 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 May 2023Conditional

  1.) permission for single storey extension (floor area = 41sqm) to side of existing storey and a half/dormer type dwelling (total floor area of existing storey and a half/dormer type dwelling = 307sqm) and all associated site works, and 2.) retention permission for alterations to elevations of storey and a half/dormer type dwelling approved under planning register reference 14/867 to include revised dormer window and roof window designs/locations revised external window and door steles throughout, and revised garage elevations, all of the above

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 23498

• 25 May 2020Conditional

  (a) Proposed new single storey dwelling; (b) Upgrading of existing vehicle entrance forming a double combined entrance; (c) New domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20512

• 18 May 2020N/a

  (a) Proposed new single storey dwelling, (b) upgrading of existing vehicular entrance forming a double combined entrance, (c) new domestic garage, (d) treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works.

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20494

• 14 Oct 2019Refused

  (a) Proposed new dormer dwelling; (b) Upgrading of existing vehicle entrance forming a double combined entrance; (c) New domestic garage; (d) Treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development and facilitating works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 191136

• 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 Moortowncastle.

Recorded monuments

• KD028-047 Castle - tower house
  Description

  At the foot of a long, gentle S-facing pasture slope. Recorded as a ruin on Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare. The very poorly preserved remains comprise the W wall of a tower house (8.6m N-S; wall T 1.5m) built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, without a base batter. The springing of a barrel vault (orientated N-S) is visible at first floor-level, and there is a double-splayed loop (Wth 0.7m) at ground floor level. A short length (2.4m E-W) of the attached S wall also survives, and its foundation course walling is traceable for a short distance (4m) towards the E. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22 February 2013

• KD028-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a partially tree-covered bank. Reported as having been destroyed sometime between 1953 and 1955 (SMR file). On a moderately steep SW-facing pasture slope. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22 February 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moortowncastle.

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 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 Moortowncastle.

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

Name

Moortowncastle · Caisleán Bhaile an Mhúraigh

Area

1,526,943 m² (152.69 ha, 377.32 acres)

Civil parish

Tully, and its townlands

Barony

Kilcullen

Electoral division

Ballyshannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyshannon electoral division: 1,813 people in 577 households; 80% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysaxplain, Calverstown, Carrighill Upper, Moortown, Thomastown

Placenames

Moortowncastle 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.