Mooretown

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mooretown, from 351 m² to 561,127 m² (56.11 ha, 138.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• O1Strategic Reserve (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare Town Local Area Plan 2023 - 2029, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 24 Jul 2025Conditional

  for: 1) a detached single storey home office & vehicle store of circa 66sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works & 2) a detached domestic garage of circa 68sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works. Planning Permission is sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank with an on site effluent treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560839

• 7 Jul 2025N/a

  for: 1) a detached single storey home office & vehicle store of circa 66sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works & 2) a detached domestic garage of circa 68sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works. Planning Permission is sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank with an on site effluent treatment system & percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560758

• 16 Aug 2023N/a

  for: 1) a detached single storey home office & vehicle store of circa 66sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling, foul water to existing on site treatment system and all associated site works & 2) a detached domestic garage of circa 68sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360123

• 3 Jul 2023N/a

  Retention Permission is sought for: 1) a detached single storey home office & vehicle store of circa 66sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling, foul water to existing on site treatment system and all associated site works & 2) a detached domestic garage of circa 68sq.m located to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works.

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2360006

• 8 Jun 2022Conditional

  alterations to existing dwelling granted under PI. Ref. No. 05/1202. Alterations include; (I) conversion of attic space to habitable space including first floor velux rooflights to rear roof (ii) increase in overall ridge height (iii) minor modification of window and door positions on existing elevations and (iv) all ancillary site works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 22705

• 4 May 2022Conditional

  sought for a single storey house, new recessed entrance, single storey domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22517

• 5 Apr 2022Conditional

  for a Two storey/single storey dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soak aways, recessed vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22386

• 26 Nov 2021N/a

  Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. No. 16/993 -(A) erection of a dormer type house, (B) garage / fuel store for domestic use, (C) the installation of proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area, (D) vehicular entrance and all associated site works.

  Extension of duration · Kildare County Council, 211675

• 26 Jul 2021Conditional

  the construction of 2 no. detached single storey/ part storey & half dwellings, individual wastewater treatment systems, new recessed single entrances, and all associated site works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of 1. Revised site layout plan now proposing a shared double entrance off the public road to the south to serve both proposed houses

  Permission, 2 homes · Kildare County Council, 211084

• 9 Apr 2021Conditional

  (a) Single storey extension to side (north west) elevation and rear (north east) elevation of existing single storey house to form a family flat linked to the main residence and (b) minor internal alterations to form the internal link

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 21466

• 29 Jun 2020N/a

  to construct a storey and a half house, double garage/stables, Oakstown effluent treatment system and percolation area, enlarge existing gateway to form domestic entrance gate and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20675

• 24 Jun 2020N/a

  to construct a storey and a half house, double garage/stables, Oakstown effluent treatment system and percolation area, enlarge existing gateway to form domestic entrance gate, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 20650

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached garage, foul water to on site effluent treatment system & percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 19426

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  and completion of the 4 bedroom dormer style dwelling, which was originally granted under Pl. No. 04/2320, along with new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, also all associated site development and facilitating works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 17806

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

• KD027-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a very gentle NW-facing pasture slope. Shown on the 1st ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area (est. max. diam. c. 35m) enclosed by a bank. Only a very slightly curving arc of bank (int. H 0.7m; Wth 2.6m; ext H 0.6m) at NE survives, and has been planted with a hedge and reused as a field boundary. A farmyard and paddock occupy the N limits. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 August 2012

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

At the centre of the townland of Mooretown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

• Mooretown, Rathcoffey5 sales

Name

Mooretown · Baile an Mhúraigh

Area

2,128,049 m² (212.8 ha, 525.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kildare, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly East

Electoral division

Kildare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

11,587 people lived in 3,873 households in the Kildare electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherryville, Crossmorris, Fennor, Grangebeg, Kilnagornan, Loughlion, Shanacloon, Silliothill, Whitesland West

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.