# Moarhaun, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilnamona, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish Muairtheán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 237,166 m² (23.72 ha, 58.6 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,559 m² (1.56 ha, 3.84 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilnamona, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilnamona.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Templemaley, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,290 people lived in 431 households in the Templemaley electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% 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/6500 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31865 - Centre: latitude 52.871114, longitude -9.051921 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moarhaun, from 1,354 m² to 90,230 m² (9.02 ha, 22.3 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1477334: 90,230 m² (9.02 ha, 22.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477334.md - Parcel 1517498: 87,195 m² (8.72 ha, 21.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517498.md - Parcel 1518746: 27,050 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518746.md - Parcel 5056135: 4,068 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5056135.md - Parcel 5410528: 3,659 m² (0.37 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5410528.md - Parcel 1465151: 1,354 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1465151.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Moarhaun 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. - 11 Nov 2022, Clare County Council 221025: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and new entrance from public road, with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/221025/0 - 10 Sept 2021, Clare County Council 21957: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system and new entrance from public road with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21957/0 - 30 Jun 2020, Clare County Council 20429: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and new entrance form public road, with all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20429/0 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 Moarhaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL033-017: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-017----. On a rise on the floor of an E-W valley. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Sub-triangular grass and scrub-covered area (int. dims. 26.5m E-W; 22.4m N-S) with a straight side at E and an acute angle at the SW. It is defined by a drystone wall (Wth 0.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.2m) W-N, a stone spread (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.7m) at N, and a re-built but overgrown wall (Wth c. 2m; H 1m) N-SE. At S the wall is obscured by spoil. There are modern entrances at ESE (Wth 1.1m) and at NE, where the original width of the wall (1.8m) can be seen with original facing stones. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May 2016 - CL033-018: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-018----. Situated on a slight rise on the floor of an E-W valley. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 25m) on the 1828 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A D-shaped grass-covered area (32m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp (max. H 0.5m) NE-SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May 2016 - CL033-019: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-019----. On a rise on the floor of an E-W valley. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (35m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) defined by a stone spread (Wth 4.5-4.8m; int. H 0.2-0.8m; ext. H 0.2-0.8m) SE-NW, a scarp (H 0.3m) down to the interior NE-E and an external scarp (max. H 1.6m) E-SE. There is an entrance ramp (Wth 2.8m) at NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 May 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 Moarhaun. ## 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 Moarhaun, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moarhaun. - 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/moarhaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/moarhaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/moarhaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Moarhaun 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) - Ballymongaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballymongaun.md - Ballyneillan: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyneillan-30270.md - Caherbannagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherbannagh.md - Cooguquid: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooguquid.md - Shallee: https://everytownland.com/clare/shallee.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/moarhaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/moarhaun