# Acres, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drumcreehy, barony of Burren, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 993,213 m² (99.32 ha, 245.43 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 57,940 m² (5.79 ha, 14.32 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumcreehy, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/drumcreehy.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Drumcreehy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5751
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30003
- Centre: latitude 53.111672, longitude -9.118769 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

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); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1507655: 870,010 m² (87 ha, 214.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1507655.md
- Parcel 1434519: 110,462 m² (11.05 ha, 27.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434519.md
- Parcel 1491114: 5,417 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491114.md
- Parcel 3172276: 3,818 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3172276.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC, site code 000054, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000054
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain, site code 000054

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL002-058: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL002-058----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL002-062----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL002-080----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL002-080001-. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/acres-30003.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/acres-30003.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/acres-30003.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Acres with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Dangan: https://everytownland.com/clare/dangan-30944.md
- Killoghil: https://everytownland.com/clare/killoghil.md
- Kilweelran: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilweelran.md
- Loughrask: https://everytownland.com/clare/loughrask.md
- Tonarussa: https://everytownland.com/clare/tonarussa.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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