Formoyle More
Formoyle More is a townland in the civil parish of Killokennedy, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Formaoil Mhór.
- Area
- 132.6 ha
- 328 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 15,963 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Formoyle More, from 64 m² to 316,677 m² (31.67 ha, 78.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Formoyle More 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
1 Jun 2018Conditional
for construction of a detached dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, onsite waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated landscaping and site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18454
14 May 2018Conditional
to construct a Slatted Shed and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18390
26 Mar 2018N/a
on the Grant of Outline Permission ( Ref. No. P17-304 of Outline permission ) for the following development: Construction of detached dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, onsite waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated landscaping and site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18253
24 Apr 2017Conditional
for the construction of a detached dormer style dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, onsite waste water treatment system, bored well and all associated landscaping
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 17304
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Formoyle More.
Recorded monuments
- CL044-045 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011
- CL044-046 Enclosure
Description
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.
- CL044-047 Enclosure
Description
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Formoyle More.
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 Formoyle More, 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 high, 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 Formoyle More.
- 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 Formoyle More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Formoyle More · Formaoil Mhór
- Area
- 1,326,296 m² (132.63 ha, 327.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killokennedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilseily, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 819 people lived in 272 households in the Kilseily electoral division. 89% 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barbane, Cappanaslish, Crean, Derry, Formoyle Beg, Kyleglass, Muingboy
- Placenames
- Formoyle More 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.