Doonyvardan

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonyvardan, from 99 m² to 291,299 m² (29.13 ha, 71.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Doonyvardan 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 Doonyvardan 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: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL005-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a natural knoll and surrounded on all sides by damp boggy ground planted with forestry. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the 6-inch OS maps. Listed as an ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved circular bivallate rath (est. diam. 54m; int. dims. 17m E-W; 15m N-S) defined by an inner bank (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.6-2.2m), a rush-filled fosse (Wth 1.8-2.6m) and an outer bank that survives as a scarp from NNE-SW (int. H 0.4-0.5m). An enclosure (CL005-280----) overlooks the site from on top of an outcropping bluff, c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 February 2023

• CL005-115001 Field system
  Description

  An extensive field system (c. 3.5km NW-SE) visible on OS Aerial Premium (2012-2018) stretching from Gragan West at N to Croagh South at S. The N half, just 500m W of Corkscrew Hill, is narrow (c. 360m E-W) and occupies a shelf on the E slopes of Faunarooska. The SE extent on lower ground widens to c. 1km. Many cairns, fulachtaí fia, cashels, enclosures and hut sites lie within. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 August 2021

• CL005-115003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a high rise in a rocky area. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1998 this was found to be a small D-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 27m) defined by a stone wall of apparently modern construction with an animal pen attached at SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 January 2016

• CL005-115005 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a terrace of rough pasture and scrub, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-) and with good views from E to SE. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular cashel (int. diam. 25m) defined by a collapsed stone wall (Wth 2-3m; H 0.3-0.5m) with some possible original inner-wall facing at W and WNW (H 0.7m) and outer-wall facing at ENE. Much of the enclosing wall has been rebuilt in relatively modern times. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 March 2023

• CL005-115006 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a raised area of rough pasture and scrub, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-) and with commanding views in all directions. Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular cashel (24m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by a bank of stone (Wth 2m; int. H 0.7-1m) with some possible outer-wall facing at SSE and SW (H 0.4-0.6m). The enclosing bank is broken by a modern cattle gap at NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 March 2023

• CL005-115007 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a raised area of rough pasture with views to all sides, within a multiperiod field system (CL005-115001-). Indicated as a field on the 1842 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular cashel (30m E-W; 27.5m N-S) defined by a stone wall (Wth 2.3m; H 0.5-1m) with some inner and outer wall-facing. A gap at E (Wth 0.6m) is lined by an orthostat (H 1m) on its N side and another gap at SW (Wth 1.1m) is lined by one on its S side (H 0.3m). Later walls run over many of the original facing stones. A rectangular house site (CL005-115017-) is located in its W sector. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 27 March 2023

• CL005-115017 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the W sector of a cashel (CL005-115007-). A rectangular house site (4.3m N-S; 2.7m E-W) defined by a low, grass-covered wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 March 2023

• CL005-204 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a plateau of karst limestone in a slight basin. A rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 23.2m NW-SE; 28.2m NE-SW) defined at SW, NW and NE by a drystone wall (Wth 0.4-0.8m; H up to 1.4m) and at SE by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.2m; H 0.6-0.9m). Indicated on Tim Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). There is some spill associated with the drystone wall but it is unclear whether it is built on an older wall. A grass-covered rectangular rock outcrop (6.2m NW-SE; H 0.4-0.8m) occupies the centre of the enclosure. There is a small subrectangular annexe (10m NE-SW; 5.5-10.5m NW-SE) outside the S corner. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 February 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Doonyvardan, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonyvardan.

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

Name

Doonyvardan · Dún Uí Bhardáin

Area

1,392,752 m² (139.28 ha, 344.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconnoe North, Berneens, Cahermacnaghten, Croagh South, Gragan East, Gragan West, Poulnabrucky

Placenames

Doonyvardan 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.