Morristownbiller

760 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Morristownbiller, from 1 m² to 162,816 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.

• R2Existing Residential / Infill (Existing residential)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 687 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Open Space and Amenity (Active open space)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community and Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O1Strategic Reserve (Residential and Community) (Strategic reserve, White land)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4New Residential - Phase 2 (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Kildare County Development Plan 2023 - 2029 - Newbridge Settlement Plan, Kildare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

No planning application touches the townland of Morristownbiller in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Pollardstown Fen SAC 000396
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pollardstown Fen 000396

Recorded monuments

• KD023-008 Church
  Description

  In the E sector of a graveyard (KD023-008001-). No visible surface trace survived in 1986 (SMR file). Appears to have been in ruins by 1783, according to Taylor's map of County Kildare. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

• KD023-008001 Graveyard
  Description

  In open, level tillage. A sub-rectangular area (L c. 70m ENE-WSW; Wth c. 40m) is enclosed by an ivy covered, roughly coursed stone wall which curves gently at its ENE end where steps provide access. The overgrown interior is very uneven underfoot and the legible grave markers date from the early 18th and 19th centuries. A now levelled church (KD023-008----) stood in the E sector. (http://kildare.co/Graveyard-Details.asp?ID=K086: Last accessed 23 May 2012) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

• KD023-009 Castle - motte and bailey
  Description

  On the E side of a shallow, marshy valley through which a small stream flows N c. 70m to the W of the monument and forms the baronial boundary between the Barony of Connell to the E and the Barony of Offaly East to the W. A tall, steep-sided, uneven-topped, circular earthen mound is enclosed by a fosse at the base (H above fosse at N 9m; diam. of summit 10m). An earthen causeway at SSE links to an approximately triangular bailey (L. 80m; W at causeway 40m; H. at E 5m, H. above valley at S and W 8.5m) which appears to have been quarried in places. There is a low earthen bank on the bailey at E. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 23 May 2012

• KD023-128 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on high ground, in tillage field 45m S of church (KD023-008----) and graveyard (KD023-008001-). Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 56m) visible on Google Earth imagery taken 28/06/2018. See attached image taken from Google Earth Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by David Brennan Date of upload: 04 December 2018

• KD023-129 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
  Description

  Situated on high ground, in tillage field immediately W and S of church (KD023-008----) and graveyard (KD023-008001-). Inspection of the field by David Brennan over several seasons has retrieved hundreds of flint and chert artefacts lying on the surface of the plough soil. All the lithic artefacts are now with the National Museum of Ireland. In 2009, a Neolithic stone axe (possibly Dolerite) was also found on the surface of the plough soil, approximately 60 metres downslope of the western edge of the newly discovered sub-circular shaped enclosure (KD023-128----). The late Professor Peter Woodman visited the site and recorded the scatter as a probable Early Mesolithic site (Woodman 2015, ). However, examination of the complete lithic assemblage indicates that there was activity present at this site from the Mesolithic right through to later prehistoric periods. See attached plan showing location of lithic scatter Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by David Brennan Date of upload: 04 December 2018

• KD023-130 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of roughly oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 40m NE-SW, 30m N-S) with possible field system visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 28 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Morristownbiller, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2599 (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.

No address of the register names Morristownbiller with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Morristownbiller

Area

1,754,421 m² (175.44 ha, 433.53 acres)

Civil parish

Morristownbiller, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Morristownbiller, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,107 people lived in 5,312 households in the Morristownbiller electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymany, Cornelscourt, Loughbrown, Moorfield, Piercetown, Pollardstown

Placenames

Morristownbiller 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.