Moheramoylan

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moheramoylan, from 4,122 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) to 443,491 m² (44.35 ha, 109.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Moheramoylan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Moheramoylan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL009-048001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  On a hillock at the N end of the Carran depression in an area of reclaimed pastureland and cragland. Indicated and labelled ‘Cromlech’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1961, 24–5) as a much collapsed and greatly disturbed wedge tomb (est. int. dims. L c. 2.65m; Wth at rear 1.65m; Wth at front 1.75m), aligned SW–NE, which was embedded in the NW sector of a subcircular mound (diam. c. 6m). A NNW-SSE running field wall crossed the W part it. The N side of the chamber was originally defined by an upright limestone slab (L c. 2.65m; H at E c. 1.3; H at W c. 1.35m; T 0.2–0.25m), now broken. The base remained in situ, in three pieces, and the upper part of the stone was in two pieces to the N of the base. The S side was defined by two upright slabs, which may have originally formed a single sidestone. The E slab (L 1m; H 0.8m) appeared to have been slightly displaced. The W slab (L 1.25m; H 1.1m) leaned to the N and under it there was a stone (H 0.2m) that was probably not in its original position. The capstone (L 4.5m; Wth at NE 2.4m; Wth at SW 2.7m; T 0.25m) had slid to the N and overlay the N sidestone. It was also supported by the more westerly of the S sidestones and by a boulder (H 0.5m) at its E end; the latter did not appear to be an original feature. The capstone was in this position when described by Westropp (1898, 366). Clear indications of the mound surrounding the chamber survived to the E and S of the tomb. An inspection of the tomb in 1998 found it to have been slightly damaged in the interim (SMR file). The site of a cairn (CL009-048002-) lies c. 44m to the SE. Another wedge tomb (CL009-046----) lies c. 350m to the N. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 January 2022

• CL009-053010 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the crest of a S-facing slope in reclaimed pasture, overlooking a valley to the S, within a large multiperiod field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated and labelled ‘Mothair an Mhaoláin’ on Robinson’s map (1977). Described by Westropp (1898, 365) as a ‘defaced caher … about 120 feet [36.5m] across’. Its gateway, which faced S, was ‘6 feet [1.8m] high, 4 feet 4 inches [1.3m] wide ’, had two lintels and seemed to be on the point of collapse. It was constructed of ‘very thin slabs’, which accounted for its dilapidation. This subrectangular cashel (ext. dims. 40m N–S; 39m E–W) is defined by the collapsed moss-covered remnants of a stone wall (Wth 4–6m; H 0.8–1.6m), which is overlain by a later drystone field wall on the W, N and E sides and by another E-W running wall on the S side. Horizontally laid stones visible intermittently below these walls are the remains of the outer wall-face. Some spill is visible outside the W side of the cashel but that on the N and E sides was removed when the fields were reclaimed. No trace of the gateway noted by Westropp (ibid.) survives. The interior is lower than the ground to the N and S. The remains of a souterrain (CL009-053020-) lie in the N half. Numerous old discontinuous grass-covered field walls (Wth 0.8–1.9m; H 0.5–1m) are also visible. In the SW corner there is a modern drystone corral (int. dims. 4.8m E–W; 2m N–S). Two later rectangular enclosures, defined by grass-covered foundations, abut the W side of the cashel: one (int. dims. 8m N–S; 5m E–W) is roughly at the mid-point of the wall, the other (int. dims. 13m N–S; 13m E–W) lies to the S of this. Other cashels lie c. 245m to the SW (CL009-053004-) and c. 285m to the NW (CL009-053005-). The following images have been uploaded: CL009-053010- View from N.jpg CL009-053010- entrance (Westropp 1898, 365) Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 31 January 2022

• CL009-053020 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated in the N half of the interior of a cashel (CL009-053010-), this Z-shaped souterrain (L 11m) is now largely exposed. The W end (L 3m; Wth 1.1m; H 0.5m) is roofed with three lintels and it appears that the entrance was at this end, which is heavily overgrown with rubble strewn around it. The passage continues a short distance (L 0.4m) to the E of the linetelled section, where the N side-wall survives in poor condition. It then turns N (L 3m). Both side-walls survive in this section but it is overgrown and filled with rubble; the N end of the W wall is particularly dilapidated. The passage then turns E (L 5m; Wth 1m; max. H 1m). Here too it is filled with rubble and there is rubble (Wth 2m) all around it. (Westropp 1898, 365) Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 31 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moheramoylan.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Moheramoylan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Moheramoylan

Area

769,146 m² (76.91 ha, 190.06 acres)

Civil parish

Carran, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Caherconnell, Cahergrillaun, Eanty More, Eantybeg South, Poulcaragharush, Rannagh West

Placenames

Moheramoylan 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.