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

Townland in the civil parish of Noughaval, barony of Burren, Co. Clare; in Irish Páirc na bhFianna.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 661,674 m² (66.17 ha, 163.5 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 293,728 m² (29.37 ha, 72.58 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Noughaval, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/noughaval.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Killinaboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5965
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30956
- Centre: latitude 52.997827, longitude -9.123633 (WGS 84)

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

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

- Parcel 1517773: 323,962 m² (32.4 ha, 80.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517773.md
- Parcel 1445433: 319,314 m² (31.93 ha, 78.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1445433.md
- Parcel 1477351: 268,143 m² (26.81 ha, 66.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477351.md
- Parcel 1508743: 18,887 m² (1.89 ha, 4.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508743.md

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

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.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Deerpark in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC, site code 001926, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex, site code 001926

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

- CL009-111: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-111----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL009-112001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-036----. 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

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 Deerpark.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_405.zip (ZIP).
- 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/deerpark-30956.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/deerpark-30956.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/deerpark-30956.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Deerpark 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)

- Caherfadda: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherfadda.md
- Leamaneh North: https://everytownland.com/clare/leamaneh-north.md
- Moygowna: https://everytownland.com/clare/moygowna.md
- Sheshymore: https://everytownland.com/clare/sheshymore.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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