Cullaun

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullaun, from 7,512 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres) to 617,393 m² (61.74 ha, 152.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cullaun 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 Cullaun 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cullaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL005-111 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope controlling the mouth of a short narrow meandering valley (Wth (30-40m) defined by low (H 2-3m) outcropping bluffs, under rough pasture and within a field system (CL005-111002-). Listed as an ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (26.3m E-W; 19.5m N-S) defined by a grassed-over stone spread (H 0.2-0.5m; Wth 1.1-2.6m) with some outer facing along W and S (max. H 0.4m). The townland boundary wall between Cullaun and Ballyconnoe runs over the line of the cashel at W. Earlier walls extend off the cashel under the townland boundary at NW and SW, and at NE. An enclosure (CL005-280----) overlooks the site from on top of an outcropping bluff, c. 100m S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 February 2023

• CL005-111002 Field system
  Description

  A network of irregular field walls (c. 450 NE-SW; c. 250m NW-SE) visible on OS Aerial Premium (2012-2018) in the N extent of Ballyconnoe North townland but extending into Cullaun townland to the NW. A cashel (CL005-111----) and a possible enclosure (CL005-280----) lie within. More extensive field systems (CL005-108001-, CL008-053001- and CL009-001001-) lie to the S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 23 August 2021

• CL005-269 Enclosure
  Description

  On a W-facing slope on a shelf of fairly exposed karst. A subrectangular enclosure (c. 43m NNE-SSW; c. 32m WNW-ESE) defined by partially grassed-over stone walls and visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi Aerial Premium orthophotography (2012-2018). Possibly contemporary field walls extend outwards at E and SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cullaun, 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 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 Cullaun.

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

Name

Cullaun

Area

1,097,153 m² (109.72 ha, 271.11 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Mount Elva, the unit of the census

Census 2022

91 people lived in 37 households in the Mount Elva electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 14% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconnoe North, Cooleamore, Gragan West, Killeany, Lislarheenbeg, Lislarheenmore

Placenames

Cullaun 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.