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

Townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 678,683 m² (67.87 ha, 167.71 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 18,481 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Killilagh, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killilagh.md
- Barony: Corcomroe
- Electoral division: Lurraga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 296 people lived in 98 households in the Lurraga electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6790
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30482
- Centre: latitude 53.042583, longitude -9.355892 (WGS 84)

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

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermacrusheen, from 132 m² to 74,816 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1450167: 74,816 m² (7.48 ha, 18.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450167.md
- Parcel 1483321: 70,425 m² (7.04 ha, 17.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483321.md
- Parcel 1498001: 64,797 m² (6.48 ha, 16.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1498001.md
- Parcel 1514556: 48,696 m² (4.87 ha, 12.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514556.md
- Parcel 1439952: 43,674 m² (4.37 ha, 10.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439952.md
- Parcel 1480944: 36,438 m² (3.64 ha, 9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1480944.md
- Parcel 1477656: 34,842 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477656.md
- Parcel 1503202: 32,814 m² (3.28 ha, 8.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503202.md
- Parcel 1501084: 32,151 m² (3.22 ha, 7.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501084.md
- Parcel 1511499: 29,912 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1511499.md
- Parcel 1432166: 27,324 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432166.md
- Parcel 1515910: 25,707 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515910.md
- Parcel 1442713: 22,158 m² (2.22 ha, 5.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442713.md
- Parcel 1481787: 19,730 m² (1.97 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481787.md
- Parcel 1514803: 19,238 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514803.md
- Parcel 1453390: 18,481 m² (1.85 ha, 4.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453390.md
- Parcel 1447952: 17,236 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1447952.md
- Parcel 1460275: 13,258 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460275.md
- Parcel 1431794: 12,804 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431794.md
- Parcel 1446631: 10,001 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1446631.md
- Parcel 1434742: 4,708 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434742.md
- Parcel 1517950: 4,475 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517950.md
- Parcel 3041184: 4,078 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3041184.md
- Parcel 1464693: 2,993 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464693.md
- Parcel 1487489: 2,417 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487489.md
- Parcel 1476756: 2,347 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476756.md
- Parcel 4972858: 1,904 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4972858.md
- Parcel 2458015: 697 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2458015.md
- Parcel 1482615: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482615.md
- Parcel 4972856: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4972856.md
- Parcel 5451879: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5451879.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cahermacrusheen 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)

4 applications, newest first.

- 6 May 2026, Clare County Council 26122: Conditional. Retention. of: 1. the change of use of the dwelling on site as an existing short-term letting /air bnb operation. 2. the revised vehicular entrance location. 3. the boundary walls as built on site and for permission to complete the finishes to the new boundary wall and all associated and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/26122/0
- 25 Feb 2026, Clare County Council 2649: N/a. Retention, 1 home. to retain the change of use of the dwelling on site as an existing short-term letting / air bnb operation and all associated and ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2649/0
- 29 Mar 2023, Clare County Council 23191: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to build a new dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23191/0
- 17 Jun 2019, Clare County Council 19474: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, a proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/19474/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC, site code 000020, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000020
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex, site code 000020

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

- CL008-022: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-022----. Near the top of a gentle SE-facing slope in pasture and within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Indicated and labelled 'Dermot & Grania's Bed' on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Megalithic structure site' in the RMP (1996). The OS Name Book (1840) referred to the monument as a 'stone altar' (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 91). According to Borlase (1897, vol. 1, 80) and Westropp (1905, 355), this wedge tomb collapsed in the late 19th century. Both antiquarians described the remains as oriented E-W and embedded or partly embedded in a cairn (already removed). The N and S sidestones (L 3.05m) lay flat, side by side, and each was broken in the centre (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 80). The original standing height of the tomb chamber was estimated as 1.22m (ibid.). The roof-slab (L 3.05m; Wth 2.49m at W, narrowing to 1.83m at E; T 0.18-0.23m) overlay the N sidestone (Westropp 1905, 355). Under these large prone slabs were found two smaller slabs which were thought to be endstones; because the W endstone (L 1.52m) was longer than that at the E (L 1.22m), Westropp (ibid.) concluded that 'there was the usual eastward taper' (in height and/or width). De Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 91) found no trace of this monument in 1952. During a field inspection in 1998, a trapezoidal area (9m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW at NW side; 5m NE-SW at SE side) that may mark its site was identified; its SW side was defined by a field wall and its other sides consisted of collapsed and grass-covered banks (Wth 1.25m; H 0.2m). The interior was piled with heavily overgrown field-clearance rubble. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) The following image has been uploaded: CL008-022----_01.jpg View from ESE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 September 2022
- CL008-025: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-025----. In rough pasture on the top of a natural scarp sloping to the N, in an area of uneven ground and karstic limestone outcrops, within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Listed as 'Potential site - aerial photo' in the RMP (1996). A possible enclosure was noted on Air Corps aerial photography (ACAP V247/62) taken in June 1957. On inspection in August 1998, no visible surface trace of it could be detected. However, it is still evident on more recent aerial imagery (OSi MapGenie 1995, Digital Globe 2011-2013 and Aerial Premium 2013-2018) where it appears as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 31m) defined by a grassed-over wall, suggesting it may be the remains of a cashel. Another grass-covered field wall extends off the it at E and curves southwards. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 8 September 2022
- CL008-026: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-026----. On top of a natural roughly E-W running terrace, sloping steeply from N-SE, in an area of rough pasture and karstic limestone outcrops within a large multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and named 'Cahermacrusheen' on the latter ed. Labelled 'Cathair Mhic Croisín' on Robinson's (1977) map. This subcircular cashel (40m E-W; 35.5m N-S) is defined by a scarped platform (H 0.5-1m). At N a line of stones (H 0.3m), extending along the base of the scarp, resembles the lowermost course of a limestone revetment; however, it is unclear whether this is man-made or natural. Two short stretches of a low wide grassed-over collapsed stone and earth bank (Wth 0.8m; H 0.2m) visible inside the edge of the scarp at N and E may be the remnants of an enclosing wall. In the thistle- and nettle-covered gently S-sloping interior, a series of very low barely visible earth/stone banks may be the remains of internal features or divisions. A modern water trough and shed were built against the scarp at SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 8 September 2022
- CL008-027: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-027----. On level ground on a gentle NW-slope in an area of rough pasture and outcropping limestone. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This circular cashel (int. diam. 19m NW-SE; ext. diam. 25.7m NW-SE) is defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.3-3.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.2-0.4m). It is heavily overgrown with blackthorn and is surrounded by a later drystone wall (H 0.4-1m) or the remnants of it. There is a house site (CL008-027002-) in the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 September 2022
- CL008-027002: House - indeterminate date, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-027002-. Within the centre of the interior of a cashel (CL008-027----), this circular house site (int. diam. 6.2m NW-SE; ext. diam. 10.5m NW-SE) is defined by a spread of stone (Wth 1-3.2m; H 0.2m). Due to dense overgrowth, it was not visible but was discernible underfoot. Compiled by Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 September 2022
- CL008-126: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-126----. On a rise in rough pastureland and karstic outcrop, with wide views and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL008-109001-). A subcircular platform (24m N-S; 20.5m E-W) defined by a low stone and earth bank (av. Wth 2m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.35-1.15m). At NNW the bank is very slightly lower and there is a poorly defined ramp-like feature up to it from the exterior. At SE several metres of the bank have been reduced to a scarp; some loose rubble lies scattered about here. The cashel interior undulates slightly, sloping gently to the S. A kidney-shaped hollow (7m NW-SE; 4.9m NE-SW; D 0.3m) lies just inside the N perimeter and a small oval mound (L 3.5m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW; H 0.15m) lies near the W edge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of revision: 25 April 2023

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 Cahermacrusheen.

## 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 Cahermacrusheen, 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 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 Cahermacrusheen.
- 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/cahermacrusheen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacrusheen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacrusheen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cahermacrusheen 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)

- Ballyryan: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyryan.md
- Cahermaclanchy: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermaclanchy.md
- Craggycorradan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/craggycorradan-west.md
- Lurraga: https://everytownland.com/clare/lurraga.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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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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