Moorechurch

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moorechurch, from 187 m² to 137,909 m² (13.79 ha, 34.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 62 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 30 Jan 2020Conditional

  permission for the construction a first floor front extension, a two storey rear extension and a single storey side extension to existing dwelling. Permission is also sought for the retention of existing garage (c.41.82m2) and the retention of existing porch

  Permission · Meath County Council, LB200097

• 30 Dec 2019N/a

  a first floor extension to the front, a two storey rear extension and a single storey side extension. Permission is also sought for the retention of existing garage (c.41.82m2) and the retention of existing porch

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, LB191828

• 24 Oct 2019Conditional

  retention planning permission for the single storey sunroom extension (21.48m2) to the rear of the existing dwelling, the first floor attic converstion for storage (27.61m2) and the detached store/gym/shower/utility room (38.35m2) ancillary to the use of the existing dwelling

  Retention · Meath County Council, LB191402

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 Moorechurch.

Recorded monuments

• ME028-010 Church
  Description

  The parish church of Moorchurch is situated within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 110m E-W; c. 60-70m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges on every side except the E where a masonry wall borders a NNE-SSW public road. It is located on a level landscape. According to the Dopping (1682-5) and Royal (1693) Visitations the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mora had been unrepaired since 1641 and was not enclosed (Ellison 1971, 34). This is a divided nave (int. dims 15.2m E-W; c. 8m N-S) and chancel (int. dims 7.7m E-W; 6.05m N-S) church (total L c. 26m), but the W wall and the N wall of the nave do not survive and the other walls are reduced and overgrown. There is a W porch (int. Wth 1.4m; L 3.3m) and an E porch (Wth 1.8m; L 2.12m) on the S wall of the nave with the area between them added to the nave as an aisle. The pointed chancel arch (Wth 5.03m) survives complete and has a plaque (dims 0.69m x 0. 31m) commemorating Dame Janet Sarsfield, dowager of Dunsany, who died in 1597 and is buried in the church inserted into the N pier (Mems Dead 1904, 124). A sacristy (int. dims 3.95m N-S; 3.05m E-W) of two stories was added to the N side of the chancel, which necessitated the closing of the E window on the N chancel wall. The sacristy is entered by a pointed doorway (Wth 0.7m; H 1.35m) from the chancel, but no other features of the chancel survive apart from corbels in the E and W walls for the first floor and a small rectangular window in the N wall at the first floor. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 August 2014

• ME028-010001 Graveyard
  Description

  The parish church of Moorechurch (ME028-010----) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 110m E-W; c. 60-70m N-S) defined by earthen banks and hedges on every side except the E where a masonry wall borders a NNE-SSW public road. It is located on a level landscape. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 August, 2014

• ME028-010002 Wall monument
  Description

  The pointed chancel arch of Moorechurch parish church (ME028-010----) survives complete and has a plaque (dims 0.69m x 0. 31m) commemorating Dame Janet Sarsfield, dowager of Dunsany, who died in 1597 and is buried in the church inserted on the N pier (Du Noyer 1896, 325; FitzGerald 1904, 124). The plaque, which had been lying loose in the church (Cogan 1862-70, 2, 254) has Roman lettering in relief and reads: HERE INTER LIETHE / THE BODY OF DAME IE / NET SARSFELD LADY / DOWAGER OF DONSANY / WHO DYED THE XXII OF / FEBRUARY AN. DN. 1597. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 December, 2014

• ME028-010003 Graveslab
  Description

  A graveslab of Thomas Buckley dated 1617 that was in the chancel of Moorchurch parish church (ME028-010----) cannot be identified. It is described (Dix 1898-1900, 461) as being in two pieces and having a figure of a man in 'Elizabethan costume' at the centre and a fragmentary inscription around three sides that reads: HERE LIETH THE BODIE OF / THOMAS BUCKELY, GENT, WHO DI-- / --OCTOBER, 1617. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 December, 2014

• ME028-011001 Ring-ditch
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Two circular cropmarks (diam. c. 25m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDS 61).

• ME028-011002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• ME028-032 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Moorechurch.

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 Moorechurch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Moorechurch · Teampall na Móna

Area

824,891 m² (82.49 ha, 203.84 acres)

Civil parish

Moorechurch, and its townlands

Barony

Duleek Upper

Electoral division

Julianstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Julianstown electoral division: 11,501 people in 3,991 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloy, Claristown, Dimanistown East, Dimanistown West, Lisdornan, Whitecross

Placenames

Moorechurch 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.