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

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

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 428,367 m² (42.84 ha, 105.85 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 214,297 m² (21.43 ha, 52.95 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathborney, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/rathborney.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Rathborney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5862
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30741
- Centre: latitude 53.085181, longitude -9.187584 (WGS 84)

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

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

- Parcel 1476920: 424,273 m² (42.43 ha, 104.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1476920.md
- Parcel 1517812: 4,322 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517812.md

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

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.

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

1 application, newest first.

- 16 Dec 2020, Clare County Council 20958: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a farm house, waste water treatment system and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20958/0

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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)

- CL005-028: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-028----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-028002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-201----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-297----. 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

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 Cloonmartin.

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

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cloonmartin 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)

- Cahermacun: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacun.md
- Croagh North: https://everytownland.com/clare/croagh-north.md
- Gragan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/gragan-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.

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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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