Derrycalliff
Derrycalliff is a townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Tulla Ra), barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Doire Mhic Amhlaoibh.
- Area
- 484.5 ha
- 1,197 acres
- Land parcels
- 288
- registered freehold, median 4,797 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
288 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Derrycalliff, from 40 m² to 341,943 m² (34.19 ha, 84.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Derrycalliff 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Derrycalliff 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
- Natural Heritage Area: Oysterman'S Marsh NHA 002439
Recorded monuments
- CL026-022 Children's burial ground
Description
Just off the S tip of a NNE-SSW ridge. Listed as 'Burial ground' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (ext. diam. 30m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) defined by an earth and stone bank at N (Wth 3.5m; H 0.6m). There are a few grave-markers (H c. 0.2m) in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 May 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Derrycalliff.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Derrycalliff, about 1 in 20 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 Derrycalliff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Derrycalliff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Derrycalliff · Doire Mhic Amhlaoibh
- Area
- 4,844,600 m² (484.46 ha, 1,197.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Toberbreeda, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 185 people lived in 65 households in the Toberbreeda electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruan, Caher, Cappamore, Derrymore, Derryvet, Knockreddan, Maghera, Rylane, Tyredagh Upper
- Placenames
- Derrycalliff 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.