# Moortowncastle, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tully, barony of Kilcullen, Co. Kildare; in Irish Caisleán Bhaile an Mhúraigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,526,943 m² (152.69 ha, 377.32 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 35,085 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tully, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/tully.md - Barony: Kilcullen - Electoral division: Ballyshannon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24937 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80886 - Centre: latitude 53.100552, longitude -6.799557 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moortowncastle, from 134 m² to 277,317 m² (27.73 ha, 68.53 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1024496: 277,317 m² (27.73 ha, 68.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024496.md - Parcel 1074031: 241,283 m² (24.13 ha, 59.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074031.md - Parcel 1087095: 204,809 m² (20.48 ha, 50.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087095.md - Parcel 1018995: 161,536 m² (16.15 ha, 39.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018995.md - Parcel 1024425: 114,545 m² (11.45 ha, 28.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024425.md - Parcel 1049213: 107,678 m² (10.77 ha, 26.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1049213.md - Parcel 1024498: 84,069 m² (8.41 ha, 20.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024498.md - Parcel 1072385: 74,220 m² (7.42 ha, 18.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1072385.md - Parcel 1066130: 58,480 m² (5.85 ha, 14.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1066130.md - Parcel 2691621: 37,310 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2691621.md - Parcel 4902090: 37,195 m² (3.72 ha, 9.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4902090.md - Parcel 1087096: 35,085 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1087096.md - Parcel 1024497: 20,306 m² (2.03 ha, 5.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1024497.md - Parcel 2652104: 19,936 m² (1.99 ha, 4.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2652104.md - Parcel 5300714: 3,989 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5300714.md - Parcel 1056495: 3,788 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056495.md - Parcel 1031566: 2,694 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031566.md - Parcel 6086666: 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6086666.md - Parcel 1054164: 2,008 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1054164.md - Parcel 1086701: 1,647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1086701.md - Parcel 1057283: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057283.md - Parcel 6086705: 209 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6086705.md - Parcel 6086688: 134 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6086688.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 10 May 2023, Kildare County Council 23498: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23498/0 - 25 May 2020, Kildare County Council 20512: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20512/0 - 18 May 2020, Kildare County Council 20494: N/a. Permission, 1 home. (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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20494/0 - 14 Oct 2019, Kildare County Council 191136: Refused. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/191136/0 - 10 Feb 2017, Kildare County Council 17142: Conditional. Retention, 2 homes. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17142/0 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 Moortowncastle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD028-047: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD028-047----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD028-052----. 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 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 Moortowncastle. ## 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: 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, 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/moortowncastle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moortowncastle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moortowncastle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moortowncastle 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) - Ballysaxplain: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballysaxplain.md - Calverstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/calverstown.md - Carrighill Upper: https://everytownland.com/kildare/carrighill-upper.md - Moortown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/moortown-80884.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/thomastown-81166.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/moortowncastle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/moortowncastle