Mooretown

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooretown, from 322 m² to 724,642 m² (72.46 ha, 179.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Jun 2026Conditional

  Retention of existing entrance & site layout as varied from previously granted permission Ref. No. 01/4015, 3 No. detached ancillary outbuildings consisting of Garage, Play Room/Toilet & Pump House all as constructed and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2660750

• 6 Dec 2023Conditional

  proposed extensions to the sides and rear of existing dwelling house to include new domestic garage and study and all associated site development works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2360449

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 Mooretown.

Recorded monuments

• ME007-007 Burial
  Description

  Late in 1916 human bones were discovered just beneath the sod during quarrying at Mooretown near Ardee. Twelve slab-lined graves, generally aligned W-E with the heads at the W, were identified. Only partial skeletal remains including the skulls of two adult males were recovered. The precise location was not known for a long time, but local information now places is on a rise on a gentle W-facing slope. (MacAlister 1916; MacAlister and Holtby 1917) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 March 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Mooretown.

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

Name

Mooretown

Area

1,244,400 m² (124.44 ha, 307.5 acres)

Civil parish

Siddan, and its townlands

Barony

Slane Lower

Electoral division

Killary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killary electoral division: 1,291 people in 467 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corballis, Creevagh, Hopkinstown, Keeran, Mullaghwillin, Rathbran More

Placenames

Mooretown 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.