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

Townland in the civil parish of Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Fómarla.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,241,992 m² (124.2 ha, 306.9 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 14,764 m² (1.48 ha, 3.65 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Tulla, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/tulla.md
- Barony: Tulla Upper
- Electoral division: Clooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 539 people lived in 179 households in the Clooney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7819
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31211
- Centre: latitude 52.860755, longitude -8.820297 (WGS 84)

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

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fomerla, from 937 m² to 295,004 m² (29.5 ha, 72.9 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1443163: 295,004 m² (29.5 ha, 72.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443163.md
- Parcel 1455967: 193,795 m² (19.38 ha, 47.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455967.md
- Parcel 1477864: 152,240 m² (15.22 ha, 37.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477864.md
- Parcel 1435012: 126,696 m² (12.67 ha, 31.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435012.md
- Parcel 1439857: 106,959 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439857.md
- Parcel 1456330: 93,315 m² (9.33 ha, 23.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456330.md
- Parcel 1450421: 66,496 m² (6.65 ha, 16.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450421.md
- Parcel 1458096: 59,814 m² (5.98 ha, 14.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458096.md
- Parcel 1517737: 51,459 m² (5.15 ha, 12.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517737.md
- Parcel 1499237: 30,524 m² (3.05 ha, 7.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499237.md
- Parcel 1500829: 16,593 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500829.md
- Parcel 4588387: 12,935 m² (1.29 ha, 3.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4588387.md
- Parcel 2757161: 6,793 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2757161.md
- Parcel 1472110: 6,147 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1472110.md
- Parcel 4588312: 5,125 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4588312.md
- Parcel 1474159: 4,251 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1474159.md
- Parcel 1514015: 4,246 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1514015.md
- Parcel 4872311: 2,892 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872311.md
- Parcel 1442123: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442123.md
- Parcel 1485684: 1,893 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1485684.md
- Parcel 2753619: 1,504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2753619.md
- Parcel 4898372: 937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4898372.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Fomerla 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 Fomerla in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Fomerla.

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

- CL034-041: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-041----. Built by Rory, son of Shane, son of Mahon MacNamara. In 1570 it was owned by Turlough O'Brien, a younger brother of Conor, third Earl of Thomond. Conor was hanged in Galway after 1581, but his son Donagh became the fourth Earl, and Donagh made Formerla over to a Roland Delahoyde in 1585, which was renewed in 1613. In the 1640s Oliver Delahoyde was dispossessed and a John Carroll received Formerla. In 1659 Cnarlse and Donagh Carthy were tenants at Formerla an in the Moland survey of 1703 it is described as a castle out of repair, the remains of an old house, and an orchard and six cabins. Situated at the highest point of a low hillock in a low-lying landscape, and overgrown. One section of the SW wall (L 2.5m NW-SE; H 2.9m; T 1.3m) contains part of an embrasure at the NW end. 4m to the NE are the grassed-covered remains of the NE wall are visible (L 6m), and a collapsed piece of masonry has traces of a window splay and a stepped embrasure of dressed stonework. Compiled by: Leo Morahan and Michael Moore See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 11 December 2014
- CL034-158001: Children's burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-158001-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL034-158002: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-158002-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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 Fomerla.

## 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 Fomerla, about 1 in 10 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 Fomerla.
- 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/fomerla.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/fomerla.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/fomerla.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Fomerla 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)

- Ballyslattery or Newgrove: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyslattery-or-newgrove.md
- Caherloghan: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherloghan.md
- Toonagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/toonagh-32227.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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