Formoyle West

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Formoyle West, from 123 m² to 851,506 m² (85.15 ha, 210.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Formoyle West 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  to alter and extend a derelict dwelling, to construct a new internal access driveway to the house, to install a new proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660097

• 27 Jul 2020Conditional

  to revise the site boundaries and for RETENTION permission for the altered fenestration in the existing dwelling originally granted by planning reference 07/2841 and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20513

• 18 Sept 2017Refused

  to build a new dwelling house, garage, install a waste treatment system, and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17706

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: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020

Recorded monuments

• CL002-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On moderately steep ENE facing slope overlooking the Caher River, c. 360m to the NE. Hachured on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and indicated with a solid line on the 1915 edition. Listed in the RMP (1996) as a ‘rectangular enclosure’. A partially tumbled single drystone wall enclosing a rectangular field (c. 22m NW–SE; 20m NE–SW). It may run on the line of an earlier enclosure as indicated by the hachuring on the 1842 ed. of the 6-inch OS map. Rectangular cashels are known in the Burren (Comber 2010; 2019; Bowmer 2019) and this is a possible example. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 2 December 2020

• CL004-112 Enclosure
  Description

  On the N slopes of Slieve Elva within a large field system (CL004-016001-) A circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) defined by a bank with a small annexe attached at W visible on Ordnance Survey ortho photography (2013-2018). The following image has been uploaded: CL004-112----.jpg Ordnance Survey ortho photo (2013-2018) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 April 2021

• CL005-005001 Church
  Description

  In partly improved pasture, on level ground at the E foot of a moderately steep E-facing ridge, in the Caher Valley c. 30m to the W of the Caher River. Indicated and named ‘Formoyle R.C. Chapel’ on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as ‘R. C. Chapel (in Ruins)’ on the 1916 ed. It fell into disuse c. 1870 (Swinfen 1992, 26), after St Patrick’s Church was built in Fanore. An early saint - St MacCreedy (MacCreiche) - may have been associated with Formoyle (ibid.). A small, poorly preserved, rectangular church (ext. dims. 13.5m E-W; 7.3m N-S) with a S transept (traceable L 5m on W side). The walls (Wth 0.65m) are built of randomly coursed unworked limestone blocks. A doorway (Wth 1m; H 1.2m above collapse) W of centre in the N wall has a large lintel and is flanked immediately to the W by a narrow, pointed arched window (Wth 0.75m; H 1.55m above collapse). A second similar window is at the E end of the N wall. A bullaun stone (CL005-005003-) was recorded here in 1980 by Cunningham (1980, 29) but it had disappeared by 1987 (Spellissy 1987, 76). The large lintel over the door and the presence of a bullaun stone hint at a possible early origin for this church. The site of a holy well (CL005-005002-), ‘Tobair Bhrain’, is recorded c. 130m to the NNW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 September 2021

• CL005-005002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough pasture at the SE foot of a low but steep-sided ridge, c. 60m to the W of the Caher River. Indicated and named ‘Tobar Bhrain’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. Not visible at ground level. Formoyle Chapel (CL005-005001-) lies c. 130m to the SSE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 September 2021

• CL005-005003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A bullaun stone was located against the foot of a wall at Formoyle chapel (CL005-005001-) (Swinfen 1992, 26), prior to its disappearance in 1987 (Spellissy 1987, 96). A photograph, Swinfen (1992, 26), shows the bullaun to have been a rough subcircular boulder with a basin towards one edge on the top. It was described by Cunningham (1980, 29) as a shallow broken bullaun lying around the ruins. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 28 September 2021

• CL005-316 Enclosure
  Description

  In a scrub-covered area in the Caher Valley, on the lower NE slopes of Slieve Elva. A subcircular enclosure visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) defined by a wall. On the 1996-2000 OSi MapGenie orthophotograph a conjoined enclosure is visible at NE. The area can be seen as completely scrub-covered on the 2021 Google Earth imagery. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Formoyle West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Formoyle West · Formaoil Thiar

Area

2,839,568 m² (283.96 ha, 701.67 acres)

Civil parish

Killonaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Gleninagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gleninagh electoral division: 153 people in 62 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyelly, Caherbullog, Coolmeen, Derrynavahagh, Fanore More, Formoyle East, Murrooghkilly

Placenames

Formoyle West 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.