Knockycallanan

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockycallanan, from 106 m² to 1,271,963 m² (127.2 ha, 314.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Knockycallanan 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.

• 15 Feb 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, proprietary waste treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18111

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

• CL003-032001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  At the SE end of a large fertile valley at the N foot of Turlough Hill. A partially traceable enclosure (diam. c. 100m) defined by a scarp at N and by a curving modern field wall along the S. This is within a larger ecclesiastical enclosure (CL003-032007-) at Oughtmama and it encloses two churches (CL0003-032002- and CL003-032003- ). The larger outer enclosure (CL003-032007-) encloses the entire monastic complex. The remains at Oughtmama are national monuments in State Care, no. 12. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 February 2018

• CL003-032007 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  At the SE end of a large fertile valley at the N foot of Turlough Hill. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A poorly preserved enclosure (est. diam. 270m) defined by a tumbled wall (Wth at N 2.8m; H 0.2-0.4m) traceable at N and S where later field boundaries follow its curving line. This enclosure encompasses the entire ecclesiastical complex at Oughtmama. A smaller enclosure (CL003-032001-) lies within enclosing the two closely associated more westerly churches (CL003-032002- and CL003-032003-). The area between the two enclosures, especially N of the churches has been subdivided into narrow striped fields. One wall acts as a townland boundary and extends from the inner enclosure to the outer. This may represent the line of an older internal subdivision. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 February 2018

• CL003-051 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, located adjacent to a spring on a rocky terrace on the lower N-facing slope of Turlough Hill. The S side of the terrace is defined by a rocky cliff face from the base of which the spring rises. At the N edge of the terrace, the ground falls away in a broad slope of limestone pavement/outcropping to the base the hill. A small concrete well house, which taps into the spring, is located c. 10m to N of the fulacht fia. Sod-covered, roughly crescent-shaped mound (c. 10-11m N–S; c. 5m E–W; H c. 0.5m) composed of a dense concentration of small, limestone fragments in a matrix of dark brown-black soil. On the E side is a shallow depression, indicating the likely location of the trough. This faces an area of wet ground fed by the spring, which rises 3m to SE at the base of a rock face. A slight indentation is also evident on the SW side of the mound, also bordered by wet ground. Expanses of natural limestone pavement lie adjacent to the mound at N and E. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 September 2014

• CL003-053 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E portion of the exposed summit of Turlough Hill, in association with a large cluster of hut sites (CL006-017001-) to the N and W that avoid the ‘enclosure’ area and a large cairn (CL006-017002-) at the W end of the summit. A multivallate enclosure or labyrinth-style feature (diam. c. 35m), irregular in plan and comprising four low, partly concentric ‘banks’ (Wth c. 1m; H c. 0.2m) of gravel and slabs, discovered through aerial survey and difficult to see at ground level. The banks are in some parts very fragmentary, poorly defined and overlapping while well defined in others. This is likely to have had a ceremonial function. (Bergh 2008; Berg, Ó Maoldúin and McCarthy 2016) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 December 2017

• CL003-055 Hut site
  Description

  On a flat shelf on the N slopes of Turlough Hill. A circular hut site (diam. c. 9m) with a second one (CL003-056----) conjoined at NE. These are visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and were noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• CL003-056 Hut site
  Description

  On a flat shelf on the N slopes of Turlough Hill. A circular hut site (diam. c. 8m) with a second one (CL003-055----) conjoined at SW. These are visible on Digital Globe (2011-13) and were noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• CL006-017001 Settlement cluster
  Description

  Situated on the flat western summit of Turlough Hill in an area of exposed karst limestone with some thin fertile soil. There are spectacular views over Galway Bay, SE Galway and NE Clare. The flat summit (600m E-W; 120-160m N-S) of the stepped hill is shoe-shaped in plan, unenclosed, and divided centrally by two large natural depressions. One hundred and sixty hut sites, some individual and some conjoined, are spread across the entire summit (including the central area with the depressions) but they are placed some distance back both from a large cairn (CL006-017002-) in the W half and a multivallate enclosure or labyrinth-like feature (CL003-053----) in the E half. The spatial relationship of the monuments along with the absence of any defensive structure implies a ritual or social function. The hut sites (diam. c. 6-11m) consist of circular, oval and less regular wall footings (Wth c. 1m) of limestone slabs surrounding natural hollows in the karst and often appear in clustered groups. More hut sites may have been lost to erosion. Two trenches, each cutting a pair of foundations were excavated in April 2016 (Ó Maoldúin and McCarthy 2016). Cutting 1 was excavated through a pair of presumed hut foundations to the W of the central depressions and cutting 2 through a pair to the E. No artefacts were retrieved from either cutting but occupation debris, preserved under the collapse of a wall-footing was identified in cutting 1 and a probable hearth in the centre of a structure was identified in cutting 2. It is unknown whether the foundations were covered over with wood, sod or a tent-like structure. Radiocarbon dates from charcoal samples are awaited. Comparable prehistoric house clusters occur at Knocknarea and Mullaghfarna, Co. Sligo. A hillfort (CL003-036001-) lies c. 580m to the E on the eastern summit of Turlough Hill. (Bergh 2008, 2015, 2016; Bergh, Ó Maoldúin and McCarthy 2016) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 December 2017

• CL006-017002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated at the W end of the W summit of Turlough Hill in an area of exposed karst limestone with spectacular views over Galway Bay, SE Galway and NE Clare. A subcircular cairn (diam. 14m N-S; 12.1m E-W; H 3m at W to 3.8m at N) revetted externally by thin horizontally coursed limestone blocks (L 1m; H 0.3m) best seen at N. The cairn is partially collapsed but it is clear that it once had vertical sides. The upper E portion of the cairn has been robbed out and possible corbelling is evident. The upper surface of the cairn is oval in plan (4.8m E-W; 4.3m N-S) and carries two small recently constructed cairns (H 1m). Some 160 hut sites (CL006-017001-) are spread all across the summit of the hill but they are placed some distance back from the cairn. A multivallate enclosure/labyrinth-type structure (CL003-053----) is on the E end of the summit with some of the hut sites around it at a distance. (Bergh 2008; Bergh, Ó Maoldúin and McCarthy 2016) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 December 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Knockycallanan, 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 high, 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 Knockycallanan.

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 Knockycallanan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Knockycallanan

Area

2,098,294 m² (209.83 ha, 518.5 acres)

Civil parish

Oughtmama, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Oughtmama, the unit of the census

Census 2022

152 people lived in 59 households in the Oughtmama electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey West, Aghawinnaun, Oughtmama, Sheshia, Turlough

Placenames

Knockycallanan 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.