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

Townland in the civil parish of Rathborney, barony of Burren, Co. Clare; in Irish Dún Uí Bhardáin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,392,752 m² (139.28 ha, 344.16 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,791 m² (2.68 ha, 6.62 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathborney, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/rathborney.md
- Barony: Burren
- Electoral division: Rathborney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5864
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31055
- Centre: latitude 53.061075, longitude -9.192629 (WGS 84)

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

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonyvardan, from 99 m² to 291,299 m² (29.13 ha, 71.98 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1429422: 291,299 m² (29.13 ha, 71.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429422.md
- Parcel 1518884: 277,260 m² (27.73 ha, 68.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518884.md
- Parcel 1499307: 191,046 m² (19.1 ha, 47.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499307.md
- Parcel 1434877: 182,442 m² (18.24 ha, 45.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434877.md
- Parcel 1520996: 170,827 m² (17.08 ha, 42.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520996.md
- Parcel 1450396: 147,070 m² (14.71 ha, 36.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450396.md
- Parcel 1481029: 47,834 m² (4.78 ha, 11.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481029.md
- Parcel 1520995: 30,292 m² (3.03 ha, 7.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520995.md
- Parcel 1453611: 23,290 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453611.md
- Parcel 2455132: 9,542 m² (0.95 ha, 2.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2455132.md
- Parcel 1503663: 4,448 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503663.md
- Parcel 1493911: 4,352 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1493911.md
- Parcel 1483302: 3,979 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483302.md
- Parcel 1494965: 2,760 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494965.md
- Parcel 1469943: 1,211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469943.md
- Parcel 1503020: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503020.md

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

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.

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

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC, site code 000054, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000054
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain, site code 000054

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

- CL005-112: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-112----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115003-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115005-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115006-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115007-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-115017-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL005-204----. 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

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 Doonyvardan.

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

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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 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/doonyvardan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/doonyvardan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/doonyvardan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Doonyvardan 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)

- Ballyconnoe North: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyconnoe-north.md
- Berneens: https://everytownland.com/clare/berneens.md
- Cahermacnaghten: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahermacnaghten.md
- Croagh South: https://everytownland.com/clare/croagh-south.md
- Gragan East: https://everytownland.com/clare/gragan-east.md
- Gragan West: https://everytownland.com/clare/gragan-west.md
- Poulnabrucky: https://everytownland.com/clare/poulnabrucky.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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