Cloonmartin

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmartin, from 4,322 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) to 424,273 m² (42.43 ha, 104.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Cloonmartin 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.

• 16 Dec 2020Refused

  to construct a farm house, waste water treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20958

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: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020

Recorded monuments

• CL005-028 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the NE slopes of a fertile ridge in reclaimed pasture. Hachured and named ‘Cloonmartin Caher’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as a cashel in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1901, 278) as a ‘caher… reduced to a ring of low and broken mounds’. The SW of a pair of very overgrown and poorly preserved cashels (see also CL005-028002-). It is roughly circular (diam. 24.5m) and defined by a bank of earth and stone (at E: Wth 4.6m; H 1.2m). The NE side is dug into the hillside and therefore the internal height of the enclosing element is higher (c. 2m). The interior slopes slightly to the N. Clearance material lies on the enclosing element from NE to SSW and rubble is built up against the interior at W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-028002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the NE slopes of a fertile ridge in reclaimed pasture immediately NE of Cloonmartin Caher (CL005-028----). A very overgrown and poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (22.5m N-S by 21m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5-4.5m; ext. H 0.9-2m; int. H 0.6-1.6m) with four courses of inner facing (H 1.6m) visible at S and a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at SE. The interior slopes up to the NW (H 1.1m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-201 Monumental structure
  Description

  Situated on the NE shoulder of a broad N-S ridge with excellent views from N to SE. A fairly well-built square structure of mostly loose stone (H 0.9m; L 1m x 1m) built on a loose plinth. The plinth extends 1.5m (H 0.5m) to the E and 1.4m (H 0.3m) to the S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 February 2016

• CL005-297 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture on the NE-facing slope of a N-S ridge, on the E side of the Caher valley. A roughly subcircular enclosure (c. 12m E-W; c. 10m N-S), defined by a grassed-over stone wall, is visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie (2012-2018). A later field wall abuts the enclosure at S. Noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. A possible cashel lies c. 45m to the W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 December 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonmartin, 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 Cloonmartin.

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

Name

Cloonmartin

Area

428,367 m² (42.84 ha, 105.85 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

97 people lived in 27 households in the Rathborney electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahermacun, Croagh North, Gragan West

Placenames

Cloonmartin 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.