Ardbooly Lower

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardbooly Lower, from 159 m² to 199,255 m² (19.93 ha, 49.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ardbooly Lower 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 Ardbooly Lower 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 Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• CL027-009 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated at the base of a very steep W-facing slope, at the W edge of a pasture field. There is very rough, wet pasture to W and drier pasture on the steep slope to E. It is depicted on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a well feature and named ‘Holy Well’ on W side of the field boundary, but there is no longer any singular feature at this location. It is depicted and named on later OS historic mapping (1899 and 1920) on the E side of the field boundary. This is a waterlogged, oval depression (c. 6.5m N-S; c. 4.5m E-W) containing grass and watercress and is likely to represent the rising of a natural spring (current D c. 0.35m). It is defined to E by a large flat, moss-covered slab (L 2.75m; Wth 0.7m; T 0.25m) and other small boulders which appear recently placed. It is defined by a field boundary (long-axis NE-SW) to W. The outflow from the spring exits to S, where it appears to drain into a small watercourse c. 85m to SW. The following images have been uploaded: CL027-009----_01.jpg From ENE. General view of monument from the steep slope to E. CL027-009----_02.jpg From E. View of well with 2m rod defining either side. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• CL027-010 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a S-facing slope, in pasture with reasonable views of a gently undulating landscape E-S-W and inhibited to S by slightly higher ground. The monument is largely obscured by dense briars and thorn trees. Depicted and named ‘Burial Ground for Children’ on the 1842 edition OS 6-inch map and ‘Children’s Burial Ground’ on later OS historic mapping. A long oval area (36m E-W; 19m N-S) defined by a low scarp (Wth 1.75m; H 0.55m) E-S-W which incorporates some large, moss-covered rocks. The monument has less definition on the upslope to N where there is a scarp although moss-covered rocks can be detected beneath the dense briar cover. The interior of the monument is largely inaccessible due to thorn trees and briars. A small area at the S edge is accessible where livestock have made a small path. This portion of the interior has a gentle S-facing slope and is raised (H 0.55m) above surrounding ground level. Numerous moss-covered rocks protrude above the surface and may indicate burials. The following images have been uploaded: CL027-010----_01.jpg From SSW. View of moss-covered stones within interior. CL027-010----_02.jpg From W. General view of monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 5 December 2018

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ardbooly Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ardbooly Lower · Ard Bhuaile Íochtarach

Area

220,864 m² (22.09 ha, 54.58 acres)

Civil parish

Tulla, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Kiltannon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

210 people lived in 66 households in the Kiltannon electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Affick, Ardbooly Upper, Derryulk Lower, Drumullan, Kilduff Lower

Placenames

Ardbooly Lower 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.