Molosky
Molosky is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Maigh Loiscthe.
- Area
- 234.9 ha
- 580 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 28,634 m² (2.86 ha, 7.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Molosky, from 127 m² to 265,114 m² (26.51 ha, 65.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Molosky 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Molosky 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Molosky.
Recorded monuments
- CL038-050 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL038-052 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL038-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CL038-065 Quarry
Description
Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). Included on the OS Discovery map (no. 57; 1:50,000) as an enclosure. This is named on the OS 25-inch map (1895) as ‘Gravel pit (disused)’ and is indicated as a pit on the 1922 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 2002 it was found to be a subcircular rush-covered quarry (diam. 18-20m; max. D 2m at W). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Molosky.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Molosky, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Molosky.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Molosky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Molosky · Maigh Loiscthe
- Area
- 2,349,160 m² (234.92 ha, 580.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Cloonadrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 488 people lived in 182 households in the Cloonadrum electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghaun More (East), Cloghaun More (West), Cloghaunnatinny, Cloonadrum, Craggaknock East, Finnor Beg, Knocknahila More North, Lissyneillan
- Placenames
- Molosky 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.