# Alva, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacduane, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 726,311 m² (72.63 ha, 179.48 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,896 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacduane, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilmacduane.md - Barony: Moyarta - Electoral division: Cooraclare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 514 people lived in 188 households in the Cooraclare electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7057 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30025 - Centre: latitude 52.726293, longitude -9.410417 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Alva, from 484 m² to 191,299 m² (19.13 ha, 47.27 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1442481: 191,299 m² (19.13 ha, 47.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442481.md - Parcel 2445975: 161,054 m² (16.11 ha, 39.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445975.md - Parcel 2445976: 96,808 m² (9.68 ha, 23.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2445976.md - Parcel 1491330: 71,109 m² (7.11 ha, 17.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491330.md - Parcel 1441748: 31,356 m² (3.14 ha, 7.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441748.md - Parcel 1458317: 24,831 m² (2.48 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458317.md - Parcel 1452237: 20,679 m² (2.07 ha, 5.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1452237.md - Parcel 1460090: 20,518 m² (2.05 ha, 5.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460090.md - Parcel 1479268: 19,632 m² (1.96 ha, 4.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1479268.md - Parcel 1429052: 16,799 m² (1.68 ha, 4.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429052.md - Parcel 1469065: 15,723 m² (1.57 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469065.md - Parcel 1505861: 10,550 m² (1.06 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505861.md - Parcel 1438610: 4,655 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438610.md - Parcel 1498116: 4,401 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1498116.md - Parcel 1464269: 3,896 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464269.md - Parcel 3213882: 3,188 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3213882.md - Parcel 3899188: 2,801 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3899188.md - Parcel 1465076: 2,373 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1465076.md - Parcel 1494949: 2,196 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494949.md - Parcel 1464011: 2,158 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464011.md - Parcel 2706324: 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2706324.md - Parcel 1456068: 2,099 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456068.md - Parcel 1434617: 2,014 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434617.md - Parcel 3968712: 1,833 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968712.md - Parcel 1494950: 1,561 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494950.md - Parcel 2611259: 963 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2611259.md - Parcel 1469066: 866 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469066.md - Parcel 2757754: 628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2757754.md - Parcel 3705466: 484 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705466.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Alva 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 30 Apr 2020, Clare County Council 20286: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. to RETAIN the construction of an existing private garage and planning PERMISSION to extend existing private garage and convert it into a proposed granny flat along with all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20286/0 - 19 Feb 2020, Clare County Council 20109: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to extend existing private garage and convert it into a granny flat along with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20109/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Alva. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Alva. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Alva. ## 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 Alva, about 1 in 20 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Alva. - 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/alva.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/alva.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/alva.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Alva 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) - Ballynagun East: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballynagun-east.md - Cloonreddan: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonreddan.md - Drumellihy (Westby): https://everytownland.com/clare/drumellihy-westby.md - Kilmacduane West: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilmacduane-west.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/alva - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/alva