# Furroor Upper, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyarta, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare; in Irish Forúir Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 903,358 m² (90.34 ha, 223.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 33,305 m² (3.33 ha, 8.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyarta, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/moyarta.md - Barony: Moyarta - Electoral division: Moyarta, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 234 people lived in 98 households in the Moyarta electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7254 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31237 - Centre: latitude 52.649515, longitude -9.673866 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Furroor Upper, from 416 m² to 174,615 m² (17.46 ha, 43.15 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1434918: 174,615 m² (17.46 ha, 43.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434918.md - Parcel 1500403: 168,168 m² (16.82 ha, 41.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1500403.md - Parcel 1502954: 130,219 m² (13.02 ha, 32.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1502954.md - Parcel 1498658: 84,088 m² (8.41 ha, 20.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1498658.md - Parcel 1461013: 71,166 m² (7.12 ha, 17.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461013.md - Parcel 1429467: 57,375 m² (5.74 ha, 14.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429467.md - Parcel 1505525: 53,098 m² (5.31 ha, 13.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505525.md - Parcel 1461062: 36,517 m² (3.65 ha, 9.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461062.md - Parcel 1439111: 35,512 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439111.md - Parcel 5833793: 31,098 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5833793.md - Parcel 1508601: 31,064 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508601.md - Parcel 1461012: 17,177 m² (1.72 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461012.md - Parcel 1456780: 3,334 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456780.md - Parcel 1456981: 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456981.md - Parcel 1457273: 2,407 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1457273.md - Parcel 1457250: 1,958 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1457250.md - Parcel 1455478: 1,345 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455478.md - Parcel 3694738: 416 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3694738.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Furroor Upper 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 5 Feb 2026, Clare County Council 2630: Conditional. Permission. to construct Agricultural Slatted Unit with new replacement farm entrance incorporating existing residential entrance to form shared/double entrance to public road, plus all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2630/0 - 2 Sept 2021, Clare County Council 21927: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house, site entrance, private garage and on-site waste water treatment system along with all associated site works and ancillary services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21927/0 - 30 Nov 2017, Clare County Council 17931: N/a. Permission, 1 home. To construct a new dwelling house and wastewater treatment system and all necessary ancillary services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17931/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Furroor Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Furroor Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Furroor Upper. ## 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 Furroor Upper, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_140, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_140.zip (ZIP). - 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/furroor-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/furroor-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/furroor-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Furroor Upper 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) - Ballyonan or Doonaghboy: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyonan-or-doonaghboy.md - Furroor Lower: https://everytownland.com/clare/furroor-lower.md - Kilcasheen: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilcasheen.md - Lisheenfurroor: https://everytownland.com/clare/lisheenfurroor.md - Moveen East: https://everytownland.com/clare/moveen-east.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/furroor-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/furroor-upper