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The State’s own map of land ready for housing

Residential Zoned Land Tax map

All 296,293 parcels on the final 2026 Residential Zoned Land Tax map, across all 31 authorities — with the 4,671 zoned for new housing separated out and ready to filter.

parcels on the map
296,293
parcels on the map
zoned for new housing
4,671
zoned for new housing

What the map is

Zoned and serviced, by the State’s own judgement

Land the Department of Housing has determined is zoned for residential use and connected to services — and is taxing to bring forward.

Most of it is already built

Nine in ten parcels on the map are existing housing. Precedent separates the land zoned for new housing from the rest, so you are not wading through estates.

How Precedent narrows it

Zoning, classified

Councils describe zoning in 22 different vocabularies. Every parcel is classified into one scheme, so a filter means the same thing everywhere.

What is standing on it

Building footprints from Tailte Éireann, counted per parcel. A building counts only when at least half of it is inside the boundary, so a neighbour’s house on the line does not.

How close the nearest application is

Nothing lodged on the parcel, or nothing within 50m, 100m or 200m — so "no application here" always comes with its radius.

Size and area

The size band you build in, in one county or inside an area you draw on the map.

What it can’t tell you

Knowing where the data runs out is part of using it. Here is where this does.

  • It is not a list of development sites. A database cannot tell a green field from a finished estate every time — look at the imagery before acting on a site.
  • Building counts and planning history are refreshed periodically, so a parcel built on recently can still show as empty.
  • Donegal’s parcels carry no zoning classification in the source map.

Residential Zoned Land Tax map: questions

What is the Residential Zoned Land Tax map?

The Department of Housing’s map of land it has determined is zoned for residential use and serviced, and so in scope for the Residential Zoned Land Tax. Precedent loads the final 2026 map for all 31 planning authorities.

Is land on the RZLT map available for development?

Not necessarily. Nine in ten parcels on it are existing housing, and a database cannot always tell a green field from a finished estate. Precedent separates out the 4,671 parcels zoned for new housing — look at the imagery before acting on one.

How can I filter the RZLT map?

By size band, by county or an area you draw, by whether buildings stand on the parcel, and by how close the nearest planning application is — on the parcel, or within 50m, 100m or 200m.

Built on official public registries

Residential Zoned Land Tax map, final 2026
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0)
Tailte Éireann buildings
National building outlines
National planning applications register
All 31 authorities

See it on your own patch

A short call with the founder, on real sites in the county you work in. About twenty minutes — you will know by the end whether it is any use to you.