Kiltacky More

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kiltacky More, from 147 m² to 212,501 m² (21.25 ha, 52.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Kiltacky 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.

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  to RETAIN the existing dwelling house as constructed, existing waste water treatment system (as per Grant of Planning Permission Ref. P07/48) as constructed, existing site boundaries including all ancillary site services and works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18974

• 16 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with a sewerage system and RETAIN the cabin with a change of use from dwelling into farm office with storage, for the eco flower farm

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 1715

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL010-045 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on fairly level ground in an area of dense hazel scrub. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 this was found to be a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 20m E-W) defined by a modern drystone wall (Wth 0.5-0.7m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 21 March 2016

• CL011-001 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Indicated intermittently on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and on the later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. Marked and named ‘Sir Donat’s Road’ on Robinson’s 1977 two-inch map of the uplands of North-West Clare. This a 17th-century road built under the auspices of Donat O’Brien and described by Westropp (1900, 407) as a long road or lane-way which extended from Leamaneh Castle (CL016-032003-) ‘for many miles eastward, and bears in several places the name “Sir Donat’s-road”’. The section of road recorded in Kiltacky More townland ran NW-SE for c. 400m, meeting the modern road at its SE end opposite a church (CL011-003001-) and graveyard (CL011-003002-). Its route now crosses improved pasture along the NE edge of exposed limestone pavement and no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 January 2023

• CL011-002001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a wet, shallow NE-SW oriented basin in rough pasture within a semi-karst landscape. Indicated and named ‘Toberinneenboy’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This neglected holy well comprises a bedrock depression (L 1m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.6m), in which water is c. 0.2m deep. There is a step down to the well at the E. The well lies within an enclosure (int. dims. 3.8m E-W; 3.3m N-S) defined by the remains of a drystone wall which incorporates large boulders (L 0.8m; H 0.4-0.6m). There are mature hazel, whitethorn and ash trees within the enclosure, and around it are more trees and boulders. 3.5m to the NE is a tree-lined NW-SE field wall. There is a turlough c. 35m to the ESE, and a fulacht fia (CL011-002002-) c. 186m to the SSW. The OS Letters of 1839 recorded a tradition that this well was dedicated to St Inneboy, ‘a celebrated Dalcassian Virgin, the Patron of Killineeboy, whose memory was celebrated there on the 29th December and to whom many wells throughout this County are sacred’ (Comber 1997, 41). More recently the well appears to have been dedicated to St Colman (Brew 1998, 57). Brew (ibid.) recounted a tradition that there was once a road between this well and a nearby medieval church (CL011-003001-) which lies c. 355m to the NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 17 January 2023 Brew, F 1998 The Parish of Kilkeedy: a local history, published by Author, Tubber.

• CL011-002002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture at the S end of a shallow basin which extends to the NE, the location marked ‘Liable to Floods’ on OS historic mapping. Described by Martin Ryan (1966-1967) and reported to the National Monuments Service in 1996 by Tom Coffey. This large horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia (16.4m NE-SW; 16.4m NW-SE) is defined by a broad, grass-covered bank (Wth 5.9-7.8m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 0.3-1.5m) of burnt and heat-shattered stones which is open towards the SW, and is most substantial at SE. There is a large boulder embedded in the bank at the SW. In the centre is a long, oval-shaped trough area (8.7m NE-SW, 2.1m NW-SE) which extends to the SW perimeter. A small, grass-covered rectangular area (3.5m NW-SE; 2m NE-SW) of the bank has been dug into at SSE, from which a channel (2.5m NW-SE; 1.5m NE-SW) extends NW into the central trough area. There is a holy well (CL011-002001-) c. 186m to the NNE. See attached image: CL011-002002- View of monument from SW. Reference: Ryan, M. 1966-1967 Fulachta fiadha near Killanaboy, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 218-219. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 January 2023

• CL011-003001 Church
  Description

  Situated in the NW part of an associated graveyard (CL011-003002-), on rock outcrop on an E-facing slope in undulating low-lying semi-karst pastureland. Indicated and named ‘Church (in Ruins)’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Named ‘Cill Taice – Early Christian ch.’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. This poorly preserved L-shaped church (9m N-S; 5.3m E-W (Large 2011)) is represented only by its long ivy-covered E wall (L c. 8m; max. H 3m), against both faces of which rubble is piled. There is a square-headed window in this wall (Large 2011). Also upstanding is the E end of the N wall (L 4m), similarly obscured by rubble and ivy. Only the foundations of the other walls survive (ibid.). The interior is overgrown. Already in a mostly collapsed state when described in the OS Letters of 1839, no details of the church were observed except its masonry, ‘which certainly looks very old’ (Comber 1997, 41). Brew (1998, 57) recounted a tradition that there was once a road between this church and a nearby well (CL011-002001-) which lies c. 355m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 January 2023 Brew, F 1998 The Parish of Kilkeedy: a local history, published by Author, Tubber.

• CL011-003002 Graveyard
  Description

  On rock outcrop (H c. 2m) on an E-facing slope in undulating low-lying semi-karst pastureland. Indicated and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This irregular trapezoidal graveyard (50m NW-SE; 38m NE-SW) is enclosed by a stone wall, with an entrance along the road at SW. The headstones all date from c. 1850 to the present, although there are some plain grave-markers. A road runs NW-SE immediately outside the SW wall of the graveyard, and appears to have been cut into the bedrock in the modern era. There is a church (CL011-003001-) in the NW part of the graveyard. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 January 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kiltacky 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Kiltacky More, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_536 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Kiltacky More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Kiltacky More · Cill Toice Mhór

Area

1,258,436 m² (125.84 ha, 310.97 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Boston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

358 people lived in 141 households in the Boston electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghaglash, Carrownagoul, Killeenmacoog South, Kiltacky Beg, Knockroe, Quakerstown, Turloughmore

Placenames

Kiltacky 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.