Deerpark

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deerpark, from 18,887 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres) to 323,962 m² (32.4 ha, 80.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Deerpark 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 Deerpark 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 Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL009-111 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a berm of outcropping rock that is heavily overgrown with hazel wood and briars; the land slopes steeply into a ravine (Wth c. 20m; D c. 5m) all around except at W where the ground is level for c. 20m before falling away. Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 256) as ‘well-built’, this poorly preserved subcircular cashel (ext. dims. 23m E-W; 19m N-S) is now defined by a stone spread (1.5-2m; ext. H 0.4-1.8m), which is flush with the interior from S to W and rises 0.3m about it at W. No trace of it is visible at N. Outer wall-facing (ext. H 0.4-1.8m) survives from E to S to W and consists of horizontally laid stones (max. L 0.7m; Wth 0.5m; H. 0.2m). There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.45m) at ENE. A loose stone (L 0.6m; H 0.6m) visible in it was standing on edge. It appeared to have been worn smooth and had a shallow basin-like depression (diam. 0.18m; D 0.05m) on one surface, suggestive of a bullaun stone, but it was unclear whether the stone had been worked or was simply a natural solution hollow. A wedge tomb (CL009-112001-) lies c. 120m to the NE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 June 2022

• CL009-112001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  At the top of a small hillock in a depression, in hazel and briars. Named ‘Cromlech’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 34) as a well-preserved and fine wedge tomb embedded in the centre of a low suboval mound (13m E-W; 5-9m N–S; H c. 0.7m). The tomb was oriented E-W, and its chamber (int. dims. L 3.3m; Wth at W 2.1m, narrowing to 1.5m at E; H at W 1.55m, sloping to 1.05m at E) comprised single large sidestones at the N (L 3.65m; 1.4m H at W; 0.75m H at E; T 0.15-0.2m) and S (L 4.3m; 1.35m H at W, 0.55m H at E; T 0.3m), set upright on their long edges. Both slabs have straight, dressed top edges which slope evenly to the E. A transverse slab (L 1.45m; H 1.05m; T 0.1-0.15m) was set 0.6m from the E end of the sidestones; the E side of its straight top edge was also dressed (L 0.85m). There were two possibly intentional apertures along the edges of this slab, with chipping on the E face of their edges (see also Leask and Price 1935-37, 83). One possible opening at the S top corner was broken resulting in a jagged sloping edge (L 0.6m). The N edge of the slab had a curving indent (H 0.6m; max. Wth 0.2m) with a smooth, worn edge near the bottom and possible flaking near the top on its W face; the rest of the edge was jagged. The capstone (original L c. 4.3m) was broken. Its larger portion (L 3.3m; Wth 2.7m at W; Wth 1.7m at E; T 0.2m) still rested on the sidestones and transverse slab, while a smaller fragment (L 1.65m E-W; Wth 1.75m N-S; T 0.15-0.2m) lay fallen to the W, leaning against the N sidestone. At the W end of the sidestones were several disturbed, prostrate slabs: one (L 1.1m; Wth 0.65m) on the S and three (av. L 0.65m) on the N. These may have been remains of an entrance lining for the tomb chamber. There appeared to be vestiges of an outer wall around the chamber at N, E and S, comprising slabs set parallel to the chamber sides. On the S was a slab (L 1.1m; H 0.35m; T 0.12m) standing 0.55m from the chamber, with two disturbed stones (L 0.55-1.05m; H 0.5m; T 0.1m) to its E. The N arc of the possible outer wall was represented by a N-leaning slab (L 1.4m; H 0.6m; T 0.1m), 0.65m from the chamber, with three possibly disturbed smaller stones (av. L 0.55m; H 0.55-0.9m) to its W. Finally, set 2m to the E of the chamber was a large slab (L 1.5m; H 1m; T 0.1m) oriented N-S and leaning to the W, with two loose stones (L 0.5m) resting against its W face. Physically linking the E end of the main chamber and the N edge of the E outer wall-slab was a line of three small upright stones. The westernmost of these stones (L 0.35m; H 0.75m; T 0.1m) was set under the capstone; the other two (L 0.5-0.6m; H 0.2-0.4m; T 0.1m) were loose and perhaps not original. De Valera and Ó Nualláin (ibid.) noted that this line of stones may have been the remnants of a second chamber, abutting the E end of the main chamber although they also noted that the evidence was scant and ambiguous; Westropp (1898, 256; 1906-07, 461) also offered this interpretation. An inspection of the tomb in 1997 found it to be unaltered in the interim, apart from further overgrowth of hazel and briars, especially on the E side. A cashel (CL009-111----) lies c. 116m to the SW. The following item has been uploaded: CL009-112001-_01.pdf Details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 21 June 2022

• CL016-036 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-W ridge, in a col in the Leamaneh valley. Traversed by the deerpark wall associated with Leamaneh castle (CL016-032002-) which is built on an extension of the same ridge. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996) and indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). A poorly preserved cashel (19.6m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by remnants of a wall (Wth 1-2m) visible at N and E (H 0.2m) where it is level with the interior. The deerpark wall traverses the monument E-W with most of the enclosure to the N (14.8m N-S) and just 3m (N-S) to the S of the wall. Another enclosure (CL016-035----) is located c. 87m to the SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 4 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_405 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Deerpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Deerpark · Páirc na bhFianna

Area

661,674 m² (66.17 ha, 163.5 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Killinaboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killinaboy electoral division: 347 people in 132 households; 91% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherfadda, Leamaneh North, Moygowna, Sheshymore

Placenames

Deerpark 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.