# Gortaclob, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 708,588 m² (70.86 ha, 175.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,781 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killilagh, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/killilagh.md - Barony: Corcomroe - Electoral division: Lurraga, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 296 people lived in 98 households in the Lurraga electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6792 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31290 - Centre: latitude 53.026819, longitude -9.344098 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaclob, from 329 m² to 443,731 m² (44.37 ha, 109.65 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5777952: 443,731 m² (44.37 ha, 109.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777952.md - Parcel 1434936: 141,311 m² (14.13 ha, 34.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434936.md - Parcel 5045318: 26,635 m² (2.66 ha, 6.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5045318.md - Parcel 5528282: 25,968 m² (2.6 ha, 6.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5528282.md - Parcel 1477081: 16,088 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477081.md - Parcel 3798790: 13,902 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798790.md - Parcel 1488199: 9,741 m² (0.97 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488199.md - Parcel 5777925: 5,997 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777925.md - Parcel 1471535: 5,122 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471535.md - Parcel 5528281: 4,781 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5528281.md - Parcel 5165585: 3,168 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5165585.md - Parcel 1491905: 2,438 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491905.md - Parcel 1468947: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468947.md - Parcel 1491491: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491491.md - Parcel 1453662: 1,922 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453662.md - Parcel 1489609: 1,635 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1489609.md - Parcel 1456441: 865 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456441.md - Parcel 1517656: 411 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517656.md - Parcel 1468946: 329 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468946.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Gortaclob 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) 7 applications, newest first. - 21 Jun 2024, Clare County Council 24200: Conditional. Permission. for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system & polishing filter together with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24200/0 - 28 Apr 2023, Clare County Council 23250: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23250/0 - 26 Sept 2022, Clare County Council 22865: N/a. Permission. to erect a 30 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing and to extend an existing access track.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22865/0 - 22 Apr 2022, Clare County Council 22371: Conditional. Retention. of the development which will consist of a) retention of extension as constructed and b) retention of location of site entrance together with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22371/0 - 25 Mar 2020, Clare County Council 20209: Conditional. Permission. to demolish existing garage and replace with new garage, including all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20209/0 - 18 Mar 2020, Clare County Council 20193: N/a. Permission. to demolish existing garage and replace with new garage, including site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20193/0 - 19 Jun 2017, Clare County Council 17473: Conditional. Retention. for development which consists of the RETENTION of first floor double doors, raised timber decking and chimney together with ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17473/0 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 Gortaclob. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL008-031: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-031----. At the top of a low rise in boggy undulating pastureland, with wide views except to the S where there is higher ground. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular rath (20.5m N-S; 20m E-W) is enclosed by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.2m at base; Wth 0.8-1m at top; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.4-0.75m). A dip in the bank (Wth 2.2m) at E probably marks the entrance. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-031----_01.jpg View from W Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 September 2022 - CL008-078: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL008-078----. At the top of a prominent hillock with wide views, in pastureland. Hachured and named 'Knockaunacroghera' on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Marked on Robinson's (1977) map, with the label 'Cnocán an Chrochaire – Armada men hanged 1588'. Westropp (1900, 286) recounts a tradition that this is a '"Spaniards' grave," where a number of the dead from the Armada were buried.' This grass-covered barrow comprises a subcircular earthen platform (22.4m E-W; 19.7m N-S), its perimeter defined by a low scarp. In the centre of the platform is a flat-topped circular mound (H 1.1-1.4m; base diam. 11.4-12.2m; top diam. 5.1-5.2m). The following image has been uploaded: CL008-078----_01.jpg View from SE Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29 November 2022 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 Gortaclob. ## 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 Gortaclob, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortaclob. - 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/gortaclob.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortaclob.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortaclob.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gortaclob 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) - Glasha Beg: https://everytownland.com/clare/glasha-beg.md - Glasha More: https://everytownland.com/clare/glasha-more.md - Knockacarn: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockacarn-31563.md - Knockaguilla: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockaguilla.md - Knocknaranhy: https://everytownland.com/clare/knocknaranhy.md - Toornahooan: https://everytownland.com/clare/toornahooan.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/gortaclob - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/gortaclob