# Islandgar, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamona, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish An tOileán Gearr. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 374,142 m² (37.41 ha, 92.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,853 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnamona, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilnamona.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Kilnamona, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilnamona electoral division: 959 people in 318 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% 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/6363 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31409 - Centre: latitude 52.855824, longitude -9.093505 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Islandgar, from 118 m² to 326,554 m² (32.66 ha, 80.69 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1459640: 326,554 m² (32.66 ha, 80.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1459640.md - Parcel 1460720: 14,230 m² (1.42 ha, 3.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460720.md - Parcel 5756234: 1,476 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5756234.md - Parcel 5756229: 118 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5756229.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Islandgar 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) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Mar 2022, Clare County Council 22220: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22220/0 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 Islandgar. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL033-003: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-003----. On a shelf of a W-facing slope overlooking Islandgar Lough (dims. c. 380m E-W; c. 23m N-S) c. 100m to the SW. Listed as ' Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised grass-covered circular area (diam. 30.7m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.2-5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 0.8m at E to 1.2-1.4m elsewhere) NNW-S and by a scarp (H 1.4m at W) S-NNW. There are traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1.6m; D 0.2m) SSE-S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016 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 Islandgar. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Islandgar. - 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/islandgar.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/islandgar.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/islandgar.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Islandgar 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) - Ballyknock: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyknock.md - Garrynagry: https://everytownland.com/clare/garrynagry.md - Rushaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/rushaun.md - Tullassa: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullassa.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/islandgar - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/islandgar