Moat Town

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moat Town, from 464 m² to 401,842 m² (40.18 ha, 99.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 54 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 11 Jun 2025Conditional

  renovation works to existing dwelling, a single storey extension to rear, upgrade and relocation of waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Meath County Council, 2560588

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  the development will consist of demolition of existing garage and the construction of new garage and upgrade existing waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560279

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  the construction of an extension to side and rear of dwelling and all associated services

  Permission · Meath County Council, 212371

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, the installation of a wastewater disposal system, new site entrance along with all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201297

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  retention permission from previously granted permission under planning reference no. TA30443 for the following (a)Existing domestic driveway and entrance (b)Modifications to elevations on dwelling house, (c)Revised site boundaries (d)Detached domestic garage with loft storage area. The development also includes planning permission for new front porch and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA191658

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  retention of A) front porch and single storey rear extension to two storey refurbished dwelling B) detached single storey sheltered carport structure, and C) detached single storey shed used for domestic use, and all associated site works

  Retention · Meath County Council, TA190571

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Boyne and River Blackwater SAC 002299
• Special Protection Area: River Boyne and River Blackwater SPA 004232

Recorded monuments

• ME036-001 Castle - motte
  Description

  Situated on a rise in a fairly level landscape. Raised subcircular, flat-topped and grass-covered mound (dims of top 21 NW-SE; 18m NE-SW; diam. of base 36m NW-SE; H 3.5m) with some trees defined by a slight fosse (Wth of top 6-7m; ext. D 0.3-0.4m). 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. Date of revision: 2 June 2016

• ME036-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a single fosse feature and with a possible entrance gap (Wth c. 5m) at SE is visible on Google Earth (29/06/2018; 14/07/2018). It was first reported by Jean Charles Caillere. See the attached image from Google Earth 14/07/2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 5 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Moat Town, 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.

No address of the register names Moat Town with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.

Name

Moat Town · Baile an Mhóta

Area

2,082,225 m² (208.22 ha, 514.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kildalkey, and its townlands

Barony

Lune

Electoral division

Kildalkey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,363 people lived in 435 households in the Kildalkey electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghtalion, Bellewstown, Clonylogan, Greatfurze, Kilnagross, Lady Island, Tremblestown, Woodtown (Abbott)

Placenames

Moat Town 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.