Land the State has already zoned, serviced and taxed.
Ireland publishes a register of land that is zoned for housing, connected to services, and being taxed to bring it forward. Precedent turns it into a sourcing tool — filter by county, size, what is built on the ground and what has been applied for.
€195 a month · a short call first, so you see it working on your own patch
A register of land the government wants developed
The Residential Zoned Land Tax map is the State's own determination of which land is zoned residential and serviced. It exists to put a cost on leaving that land idle. Nothing equivalent is published in the UK, so this is a filter that only exists here.
It is not a list of development sites, and we do not present it as one. Most of the map is existing housing. The work is in the narrowing — zoning class, size band, what is actually built on the parcel, and whether anyone has applied on it.
Figures are queried from the database each time this page loads, so they move when the data does. “No application on the parcel” means none inside the boundary — application points are often geocoded to a road frontage, so the tool shows the distance to the nearest one and lets you judge.
Filter first. The map is the answer.
Preset filters, named for Irish planning
Start from “nothing built on it”, “minor existing structures”, or every zoned site in the band. Adjust from there rather than starting at a blank form.
Size, area and zoning class
Narrow to the band you actually build in — in one county, or inside an area you draw on the map around the patch you work. Zoning is classified, not string-matched — 22 council vocabularies reduced to one.
What is standing on it
Building footprints from Tailte Éireann, counted per parcel. A parcel whose footprint has not been checked is shown as unchecked, never as empty.
Planning history on the parcel
Every application inside the boundary, and the distance to the nearest one outside it, against 203,449 decisions from all 31 authorities.
Boundaries on satellite imagery
The parcel outline drawn on the ground as it looks today. This is the check that catches a “development site” that is already a finished estate.
Constraints on the same click
Flood extents, ecological designations, protected structures and zoning objectives — 75,627 flood polygons, 1,787 NPWS sites, 12,314 protected structures.
Official public registries, and nothing else
No property listings, no estimates, no scraped asking prices. Every figure traces to a source you could check yourself.
Residential Zoned Land Tax map
DHLGH, published annually. The zoned-and-serviced determination the tool runs on.
Tailte Éireann buildings
National building outlines, used to tell a green field from a built-out parcel.
National planning register
203,449 applications across all 31 authorities, with 16,687 refusals read for their reasoning.
GeoHive GZT zoning
82,401 land-use zoning polygons across 27 of 31 authorities.
OPW / CFRAM flood mapping
National mapped flood extents, checked against the parcel.
NPWS and local authority RPS
Designated ecological sites and Records of Protected Structures.
The gaps, before you ask
Precedent is early and there is no case-study wall here, because there are no case studies yet. What there is instead is the list of what the tool cannot tell you, so you find out now rather than in week one.
- Ownership and title. Tailte Éireann publishes no bulk feed, so the tool cannot tell you who owns a parcel — it gives you the coordinates to look the folio up on landdirect.ie yourself.
- Sales comparables and land values are not in it yet.
- No development appraisal or residual valuation modelling.
- No grid capacity or connection data.
- Zoning covers 27 of 31 authorities — Donegal and Wicklow are absent from the national layer.
- Protected structures are loaded for 4 of 31 authorities, the Dublin ones. Elsewhere no marker does not mean nothing is protected.
- The planning register we hold starts in 2021, so “nothing applied for” means none in about five years.
The one that matters most: a database cannot tell a green field from a finished estate. Of the first twelve candidates checked against satellite imagery, three were already built or part built — all three with no application recorded inside the boundary. The filters narrow the list; they do not clear it — look at the imagery before you act on a site.
See it on your own patch
Tell us the county you work in and what you are looking for. We will walk you through the tool against real sites in that county, and you will know inside twenty minutes whether it is any use to you.
€195/month · 12-month minimum · booking a demo commits you to nothing
Want to check the data first? There is a public page for every one of the 203,449 applications on the register, across all 31 authorities — with the council's own reasoning on the refused ones. Start from a worked example or any individual case page.