About

What this tool checks, and what it cannot see.

Sources and thresholds

House or apartment

Eircode address points under one roof (An Post Eircode; National Broadband Ireland map)

One Eircode at the roof means a house or a whole building. Several means apartments or a mixed-use block: we say which unit this is, how many share the roof, and which units carry a business name. Apartments get a note about the management company and why a folio map does not apply.

Year built and its era

Year of construction on the SEAI BER certificate; failing that, the Property Price Register (new build) or the planning file

What the build year means for the survey brief. Pre-1900: solid walls and old services. Before 1970: lead pipes likely. Before 2000: asbestos in some products and the age of the wiring. Apartments built 1991 to 2013 are amber: the era of the fire-safety and water-ingress defects the 2022 government working group put at 62,500 to 100,000 apartments and duplexes. A note when no year is on record.

Land Registry title

Tailte Éireann cadastral parcels (open data, refreshed quarterly)

Whether a registered freehold or leasehold title is mapped under the roof, its plot size, and the boundary drawn over the house on the map. A note when nothing is registered (a Registry of Deeds title, common for pre-1970s houses in towns), when the title is shared with neighbouring addresses, or when the house sits inside a large holding. The folio number, the owner and the burdens are not in the open data: they stay a €5 folio on landdirect.ie, which the report links to.

Registered tenancy

Residential Tenancies Board, Check the Register (searched by Eircode)

Whether a tenancy is registered with the RTB at this Eircode. A registration is a note: a tenant may be in place and a sale does not end the tenancy, so the questions for the solicitor (vacant possession, a valid notice of termination, its expiry) are listed. No registration is clear, with two gaps named: tenancies registered without an Eircode and landlords who never registered. Where the Eircode is shared by several units, the registration may belong to any of them. Rent amounts are not shown.

Garden orientation

Tailte Éireann Land Registry boundaries (open data); nearest road from Azure Maps

Which way the garden faces, read from where the house sits in its registered plot and which road it fronts. Validated by eye against aerial imagery on 17 houses before release (13 confirmed, 4 could not be judged, none wrong). Not given for apartments, plots over 0.3 ha, or where the boundary is only the building footprint. A note for north-facing.

Flood risk

OPW National Flood Maps (CFRAM and indicative national mapping), OPW past flood events and flood relief scheme benefitting areas, GSI groundwater flood maps, EPA river network, floodinfo.ie

River and coastal flood extents for the 1-in-10, 1-in-100/200 and 1-in-1000 year events, current scenario, tested at the exact point. Red inside a 1-in-10, 1-in-100 or 1-in-200 extent; amber if only the coarser indicative national map shows it, or if a permanent scheme built to the 1-in-100 standard protects the point; note for 1-in-1000 alone. GSI turlough and water-table zones: red inside a high or medium zone, amber for low, observed since 2015 or a zone within 100 m. OPW recorded floods within 500 m: amber within 200 m, otherwise a note, with the date and what flooded. Inside the benefitting area of a completed OPW scheme: a note naming the scheme, its standard of protection and whether the defences are demountable. Nearest EPA watercourse within 500 m named, a note when a stream runs within 50 m of an otherwise clear point

Coastal erosion

OPW Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study (predicted 2050 erosion line) and recorded coastal erosion events

Distance from the point to the modelled 2050 shoreline. Red within 100 m, amber within 500 m; a note if an erosion event was recorded nearby. Covers the soft coast only, not cliffs of hard rock.

Radon

EPA Radon Risk Map of Ireland (2022)

Predicted share of homes above 200 Bq/m³ in the grid square. Red at about 1 in 5 (the EPA's High Radon Area); a note at 1 in 10, which the EPA maps as medium risk; clear at 1 in 20.

Defective blocks and pyrite

Gov.ie Defective Concrete Blocks scheme; Pyrite Remediation Scheme

County-level only. Amber if the whole county is in the Defective Concrete Blocks scheme (Carlow, Clare, Donegal, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo); a note for Fingal (Dublin), Meath and Wexford, where only designated parts are covered and the council confirms whether an address is inside them; a note for pyrite-infill counties (Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Offaly).

Ground and geology

Geological Survey Ireland: bedrock 100k, Quaternary sediments 50k, landslide susceptibility, karst features, groundwater vulnerability

Subsoil and rock under the point. Amber for peat, landfill, high landslide susceptibility or several karst features within 500 m; a note for made ground, alluvium and estuarine deposits.

Knotweed and invasive plants

National Biodiversity Data Centre, BSBI and iNaturalist records, via GBIF

Japanese knotweed (and its hybrids) and giant hogweed recorded within 250 m of the point. Amber for knotweed within 100 m in the last ten years, with how precisely the record was placed; a note for older or more distant records, and for hogweed. Records are sightings by surveyors and volunteers, not a survey of every garden: no record does not mean no plant.

Management company (OMC)

Companies Registration Office open register (daily file)

Owners' or residents' management companies whose name matches the building or estate in the official Eircode address. Red if the only match is dissolved or in liquidation; amber for strike-off listing or an annual return more than a year late; a note for an apartment with no match, since every block must have one.

Sewer or septic tank

EPA urban waste water agglomeration boundaries and treatment plant register (SIIF); EPA domestic waste water risk maps

Inside a sewered area: the plant's EU compliance, priority-site listing, primary-only treatment or raw sewage discharge (amber). Outside: septic tank likely, with the EPA soil map's likelihood of poor percolation (amber for high). Within 400 m of a boundary: a note, ask.

Energy rating (BER)

SEAI National BER Register and other public sources (we look for the current certificate for the address; where none is found in public sources, the report says so)

Rating on both scales (A1 to G before 24 May 2026, A0 to G after), primary energy, CO₂, floor area, build year and certificate dates for the Eircode, with links to the certificate and advisory report PDFs. Red for F and G, amber for E, note for D.

Noise

EPA strategic noise maps, Round 3 (2017) agglomerations and Round 4 (2022) national roads and rail

Lden day-evening-night average. Red from 70 dB, amber from 60 dB, note from 55 dB. Local streets and neighbours are not modelled.

Air quality

European Environment Agency annual air quality maps (PM2.5 and NO₂, 1 km grid, latest validated year); EPA street-level model for Dublin

Annual mean for the 1 km square. Amber above the 2030 EU limits (PM2.5 10, NO₂ 20 µg/m³) or kerbside NO₂ above today's limit of 40; note for PM2.5 above 7.5 or NO₂ above 15 (well above the WHO guidelines of 5 and 10); otherwise clear, with the Irish median for comparison.

Industry and waste nearby

EPA industrial (IPPC/IED) and waste licence registers, historic landfill register, abandoned mines inventory; GSI quarry directory

Licensed sites within 2 km with distance and type. Amber within 500 m or a waste site, landfill or quarry within 1 km; note for anything else inside 2 km.

Power lines and substations

OpenStreetMap power network (transmission lines and substations), checked against the EirGrid map

Nearest 110, 220 or 400 kV pylon line and any substation of 38 kV or more within 1 km. Amber for a transmission line within 300 m, a note up to 1 km or for a substation within 250 m. Street poles (10 to 20 kV) are not counted.

Planning on this property

National Planning Applications dataset (Esri Ireland, all local authorities); Building Control Management System commencement and completion notices

Every planning file on the house itself, matched on the Eircode and then on house number and street, and what building control says was started and signed off. Red if retention was refused: something built without permission that the council would not regularise. Amber for an unresolved retention application; a note for an open application. An empty file is normal for anything built before October 1964.

Planning nearby

National Planning Applications dataset (Esri Ireland, all local authorities)

Applications within 300 m. Amber if one in the last three years is a scheme of 10 or more units or a new housing or apartment development; note for open applications; otherwise the count of small ones.

Zoning

MyPlan.ie Generalised Zoning Types, current development plans

Zone at the point. Clear for residential; amber for industrial, enterprise, utilities or transport; note for centre and mixed zones or unzoned land.

Protected structures and designations

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Sites and Monuments Record and zones of notification (National Monuments Service); NPWS SAC, SPA and NHA boundaries

Amber if an NIAH record sits within 12 m (on the inventory) or 12 to 30 m (this house or the one beside it on a terrace), or the point is inside a nature designation; note inside a monument zone of notification or with listed buildings within 100 m.

Derelict sites

Derelict Sites Registers published as open data by Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, South Dublin and Roscommon county councils (Derelict Sites Act 1990)

Whether the address or anything within 300 m is on the council's register. Red if the house itself is listed (7% yearly levy, compulsory purchase powers), a note for a registered site within 50 m. Other councils keep the register offline; the report says so and tells you where to ask.

Property tax (LPT)

Revenue LPT valuation bands and basic rates 2026 to 2030; Local Adjustment Factors 2026

The band and yearly charge for the asking price you type (or the last registered sale if you do not). The council adjustment is taken from the nearest planning authority.

Buying costs and schemes

Revenue stamp duty rates and Help to Buy rules; Tailte Éireann Land Registration Fees Order 2012; First Home Scheme price ceilings

For the asking price: stamp duty (1% to €1 million, 2% to €1.5 million, 6% above; on the price before VAT for a new build), the Land Registry fee, whether Help to Buy (new builds up to €500,000, up to €35,000) and the First Home Scheme (new builds under your council's ceiling) apply. Never a flag: figures as published, with the date we checked them.

Sale history

Residential Property Price Register (PSRA)

Every registered sale for the Eircode since 2010. Amber for three sales in six years, note for a resale within two years.

Local prices and rents

Residential Property Price Register via homeprices.ie; RTB Rent Index (CSO table RIQ02)

Median of registered sales in the last 12 months within 1, 3 or 8 km (whichever first gives 15 sales), the change on the previous 12 months, the middle half of prices, new-build share, and the RTB average new-tenancy rent for the nearest published area with a gross yield. Never a flag, context only.

Crime and Garda station

An Garda Síochána district boundaries; CSO recorded crime incidents by Garda station (CJA07)

Which station covers the address and its recorded incidents by offence group for the last six years. A note if the latest year is 25% above the five-year average or the station is in the top 3% nationally. Station areas differ hugely in size, so raw counts are not a safety score.

Neighbourhood profile

CSO Census 2022 electoral divisions; Pobal HP Deprivation Index 2022

Population, tenure, education, jobs, unemployment and lone-parent share for the electoral division against the typical Irish division, with the Pobal affluence score. Amber for very or extremely disadvantaged, note for disadvantaged.

Homes on this street

CSO Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (a small area is a block of roughly 100 homes)

For the Census block around the address: houses against apartments, the decade most were built, owner-occupied, mortgaged, privately rented and social-housing shares, the main heating fuel, public water and sewer against wells and septic tanks, solar panels, and the share of dwellings vacant or holiday homes on Census night against the national figures. A note for vacancy at twice the national rate, a quarter holiday homes, or half the street privately rented.

River and bathing water quality

EPA Water Framework Directive river status 2019-2024 (catchments.ie); EPA bathing water classifications (beaches.ie)

Status of the nearest assessed river within 1 km (High, Good, Moderate, Poor, Bad) and the nearest designated bathing water within 3 km with its class. Note for Moderate or worse; amber for Bad within 200 m or Poor within 100 m. The status belongs to the whole water body, not the stretch outside the house.

Broadband

ComReg Broadband Checker operator data (Open Eir, SIRO, Virgin Media, NBI, Magnet; updated quarterly) and the National Broadband Ireland premises map

Every network at the Eircode with technology, expected peak speed and Available or Planned status. Clear for full fibre; a note for cable or part-fibre under 100 Mb or fibre still planned, with the NBI build stage; amber if no wired operator lists the address. Starlink is mentioned as the nationwide fallback.

Mobile signal

ComReg Outdoor Mobile Coverage Map (operator-supplied)

Outdoor 4G and 5G level at the point for Eir, Three and Vodafone. Amber if no network reaches good 4G, note if only one does; indoors expect one level lower.

Mobile masts

ComReg Site Viewer: licensed mobile sites of Eir, Three, Vodafone and Imagine, and ComReg's non-ionising radiation measurement reports

Nearest licensed mast site within 1 km, whose it is, how many sites within 500 m, and whether ComReg has published an emissions measurement nearby. A note when a site is within 150 m (in view); never red, since every ComReg measurement to date is well below the ICNIRP limits.

Public transport

National Transport Authority timetables (every licensed operator: Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead, Irish Rail, Luas, Local Link, commercial coaches)

The nearest bus stop and its pair across the road: routes, departures on a typical weekday, Saturday and Sunday, first and last bus, and how often one passes between 7am and 7pm. Luas and railway stations within 2 km with their frequency; the nearest station named even when it is far. Clear if a bus stop within 400 m has at least an hourly daytime service, or rail is within 1.5 km, Luas within 1 km. Timetables change: the counts are for the current schedule, live times are on TFI.

Commute

Azure Maps routing on the TomTom road network, with the typical traffic for the hour

Driving time from the house to the two nearest cities or county towns (skipping the one you are already in) and to Dublin city centre when it is within 150 km, for a departure at 8:15 on a Tuesday; the no-traffic time is shown where the morning adds five minutes or more. The area reachable by car in 30 minutes at that hour is drawn on the map. Door to town centre, not to a workplace. Computed in the full report only.

Schools

Department of Education school lists 2023/24

Primary schools within 1.5 km and post-primary within 3 km, straight-line distance, the nearest four of each with enrolment, ethos, girls or boys, Irish-medium, DEIS and fee-paying flags.

Shops and services

OpenStreetMap amenities

Supermarkets, shops, pharmacies, GPs, creches, parks, playgrounds, pubs and cafes within 1.5 km. Clear when a shop, pharmacy and green space are all within a kilometre.

Limits worth knowing

• Flood mapping exists only where the OPW ran a study. A clear result outside a studied catchment means unmapped, not safe.
• Radon is a probability for the grid square, not a measurement of the house. Only a test kit tells you about one home.
• Planning descriptions are written by applicants. We flag scale by unit counts and keywords, so read the linked application.
• Clicking a map point gives coordinates, not an Eircode, so BER and sale history stay empty until you add one.

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