Acres

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Acres, from 3,818 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 870,010 m² (87 ha, 214.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Acres in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Acres 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: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL002-058 Enclosure
  Description

  In good quality pasture and meadowland on a gentle E-facing slope. Hachured and named ‘Lisheenakirka’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lisín na Circe’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. A small poorly preserved, oval enclosure (15.9m E–W; 10.8m N–S crest to crest) defined by a low round-topped earthen bank (Wth at base 2.7–7.2m; H 0.1–1.1m) with no obvious trace of an outer fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• CL002-062 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a narrow level terrace of gently sloping W-facing bare rock (Wth 15m), near the SW foot of Moneen ‘Mountain’. Marked on Robinson’s (1977) map. A well-defined circular fulacht fia mound (14.6m N–S x 13.1m E–W; max. H 1.5m at N), with a depression on its upper surface (int. dims. 5.9m S–N x 5.1m E–W crest to crest; D 0.2–0.8m) and a short bank extending from its NE side (L 1m). A spring emerges from the base of a low bluff (H 1–1.5m) c. 3m to the E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• CL002-080 Cave
  Description

  This cave is located towards the summit of Moneen Mountain. It consists of a small chamber (2.8m x 3.4m) that is accessed via a narrow opening in the cave roof, with a horizontal drop of 1.8m to the cave floor beneath. In June 2011 cavers were digging through the floor of the cave chamber in an attempt to extend the length of known cave passage. In the process they discovered an antler hammerhead (or macehead), Bronze Age pottery, human skull fragments, animal bones and oyster shells. Digging was immediately suspended and the National Monuments Service was contacted. A two-week rescue excavation (Licence no. 11E0316) followed in August with a team of archaeologists and cavers. The objective was to recover archaeological material that had been disturbed and lay exposed in the cave, as well as to assess the nature and date of activities at the site. A number of artefacts and bones were recovered from lower levels in the cave. These seem to have worked their way down from the chamber overhead both in antiquity and during the cavers’ dig. The antler hammerhead (radiocarbon dated to 2139-1895 cal BC (UBA-20291)) came from these lower levels, as did a broken flint flake of Neolithic or earlier Mesolithic date. Scattered throughout the cave were 345 sherds of undecorated middle/late Bronze Age pottery, representing at least six different vessels. A total of 3,124 fragments of animal bone (including a skull that had broken into 353 pieces) were recovered. Many were not identifiable because they were in such a fragmentary state. Those that could be identified included (in order of frequency) sheep/goat, bird, hare, mouse, cattle, frog, rat, fish, pig, deer and cat. Almost all the bones had entered the cave by natural processes but four mammal ribs bore butchery marks indicative of human activities. A human skeleton (CL002-080001-) was discovered in a small artificial cavity (0.6m x 0.6m x 0.85m high) in the north wall of the cave. The remains represent an adolescent aged 14–16 years at the time of death. The bones bore no indication of violence yet the body was not in a formal burial position. The skull fragments initially discovered by the cavers in the chamber, 2.5m outside the niche, derive from the skeleton. It is not clear how the skull became separated from the corpse. Osteoarchaeological analysis indicates that the individual had had a hard life and may have suffered extended periods of hunger and malnutrition. Radiocarbon dates obtained for the skeleton revealed a strong probability that the youth lived in the sixteenth or seventeenth century AD. (Dowd 2011; Dowd 2013, 9-12) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 February 2015

• CL002-080001 Burial
  Description

  A human skeleton was discovered in a small artificial cavity (0.6m x 0.6m x 0.85m high) in the north wall of Moneen cave (CL002-080----) in 2011 during a two-week rescue excavation (Licence no. 11E0316) following discovery by cavers. The remains represent an adolescent aged 14–16 years at the time of death. The bones bore no indication of violence yet the body was not in a formal burial position. The skull fragments initially discovered by cavers in the chamber, 2.5m outside the niche, derive from the skeleton. It is not clear how the skull became separated from the corpse. Osteoarchaeological analysis indicates that the individual had had a hard life and may have suffered extended periods of hunger and malnutrition. Radiocarbon dates obtained for the skeleton revealed a strong probability that the youth lived in the sixteenth or seventeenth century AD. A tooth yielded dates of 1436-1516 cal AD and 1596-1618 cal AD (UBA-19575) and a bone from a foot yielded dates of 1522-1573 cal AD, 1628-1667 cal AD and 1782-1797 cal AD (UBA-19933). (Dowd 2011; Dowd 2013, 9-12) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 February 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Acres, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Acres.

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 Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Acres

Area

993,213 m² (99.32 ha, 245.43 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcreehy, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Drumcreehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

667 people lived in 183 households in the Drumcreehy electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dangan, Killoghil, Kilweelran, Loughrask, Tonarussa

Placenames

Acres 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.