Mortgage
Mortgage is a townland in the civil parish of Kinsalebeg, barony of Decies Within Drum, Co. Waterford. Its name in Irish is Morgáiste.
Parcel 1579537
- Area
- 9,554 m² (0.96 ha, 2.36 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 88 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Mortgage
Planning applications on this parcel
23 Dec 2025Conditional
the proposed change of plans and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling, also for the Partial Demolition and alterations to the existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560954
9 Dec 2025N/a
the proposed change of plan and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling,
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560886
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1728 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 81.9 ha
- 202 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 3,925 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mortgage, from 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 579,952 m² (58 ha, 143.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Mortgage 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Dec 2025Conditional
the proposed change of plans and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling, also for the Partial Demolition and alterations to the existing dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2560954
9 Dec 2025N/a
the proposed change of plan and elevations for the permitted development pl reg no 24138, consisting of 1.5 storey extension to rear of existing dwelling and refurbishment of existing single storey dwelling,
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560886
13 Sept 2024Conditional
the demolition of the ruinous, detached, single-storey dwelling house and renovation / alterations to the adjacent, detached stone barn building to facilitate conversion to residential use. Permission is also sought for the construction of new single-storey extensions to the northern and southern ends of the barn building to provide additional associated living, sleeping and ancillary spaces, a detached, single-storey garage, a new septic tank and percolation area, boundary alterations, hard and soft landscaping and all associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460526
26 Aug 2024N/a
The demolition of the ruinous, detached, single-storey dwelling house and renovation / alterations to the adjacent, detached stone barn building to facilitate conversion to residential use. Permission is also sought for the construction of new single-storey extensions to the northern and southern ends of the barn building to provide additional associated living, sleeping and ancillary spaces and shall include a new septic tank and percolation area, boundary alterations, hard and soft landscaping and all associated siteworks.
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2460486
25 Jun 2024Conditional
to (i) demolish existing single storey rear extension (ii) construct new 1.5 storey extension at the rear of the existing single storey cottage. (iii) new recessed entrance. (iv) new wastewater treatment system & (v) all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 24138
19 Jun 2024N/a
(1) to demolish existing single storey rear extension,(ii) construct new 1.5 storey extension at the rear of the existing single storey cottage (iii) new recessed entrance. (iv) new wastewater treatment system and (v) all associated site development works
Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 24133
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mortgage.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mortgage.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mortgage.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Mortgage, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mortgage.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mortgage with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Mortgage · Morgáiste
- Area
- 819,104 m² (81.91 ha, 202.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kinsalebeg, and its townlands
- Barony
- Decies Within Drum
- Electoral division
- Kinsalebeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 616 people lived in 229 households in the Kinsalebeg electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysallagh, Clashanahy, Glebe, Rath, Springfield Lower
- Placenames
- Mortgage 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.