Mortyclogh

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mortyclogh, from 77 m² to 182,788 m² (18.28 ha, 45.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2Cluster (General)
  Mortyclough Cluster, Clare · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Jan 2026Refused

  of the following a) The development of a hardstanding area used for the storage of agricultural and construction vehicles, machinery, plant and materials, b) Storage container, c) Erection of security gates together with all ancillary site development works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2660024

• 22 Dec 2025Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560835

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  of the changes made to dwelling house as constructed along with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23488

• 16 Aug 2023N/a

  to RETAIN the changes made to their dwelling house as constructed along with associated site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23448

• 1 Jul 2021Conditional

  - the development will consist of revisions to previously approved planning application plan ref. No. P18-13 comprising of the omission of extensions to master bedroom and living room, guest ensuite extension and other minor amendments. Revised works will comprise of extension to living room, ensuite extension to master bedroom and conversion of existing boiler room to ensuite, along with previously approved works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21690

• 22 Apr 2020N/a

  to develop a new off road car parking facility and set down area with all necessary ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20263

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted cubicle shed, milking parlour and dairy, meal bin and water tank and associated ancillary concrete works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2089

• 10 Jul 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN extension to a previously permitted studio P8-19415 and domestic shed.

  Retention · Clare County Council, 19568

• 11 Mar 2019Refused

  for development which will comprise of coastal erosion management works at and adjacent to the existing property. The development includes the provision of rock armour to protect the existing lands for a distance of 30m. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report accompanies this Planning Application

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19174

• 1 Nov 2018Conditional

  for alterations and addition to existing dwelling house, construction of new garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18868

• 12 Jan 2018Conditional

  for development which will consist of new single storey extensions to front, sides and rear of existing house, revisions to existing window opes to rear and side, new dormer window to rear and new velux roof lights to front elevation, upgrading of existing septic tank to advanced waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1813

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL003-009 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle to moderately steep SW-facing slope under pasture. Overlooked by a graveyard c. 100m to the NE (CL003-011----) beyond which a second ringfort stands (CL003-013----). Hachured and named ‘Mortyclogh fort’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios Mothair Tí Cloch’ on Robinson’s 1977 map. The word mothair is a local toponym used to denote a square or rectangular fort. A well preserved sub-circular ringfort (int. dims. 53.4m E–W from inner facing-stone at W to crest of bank at E; 50.7m N–S face to face) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.2–9m from inner base to fosse base; H 1–2m) and external fosse (D 0.8–1m from base to external crest). The top of the bank is generally narrow (Wth 0.3–1.7m) and rounded. It has inner facing-stones visible from E–S and sporadically elsewhere, except from W–N, where the bank has slipped. A stone-faced entrance gap (Wth 3.7m) occurs just E of S but there is no visible sign of a corresponding causeway across the fosse, the remains of which were likely erased by tractors using the fosse as a passage around the site, from ESE–SW. Modern up-and-over cattle gaps partially cut the bank at W, NW and NNE (Wth 0.6–1m). The interior slopes down from NNE to SSW (falling 1.2m) and contains an inaccessible souterrain (CL003-009002-) c. 18m NE of centre. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-009002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the interior of a large subcircular ringfort (CL003-009----), c. 18m NE of centre. Indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but not indicated on the 1915 ed. It is now inaccessible and all that can be discerned is a lintel (traceable Wth 0.9m; T 0.2m; depth of sod cover above 0.2–0.3m) resting on drystone-walling, spanning an ope (Wth 0.8m). The area under the lintel is filled with clay leaving a gap of 0.25m between the top of the fill and the underside of the lintel. A passage (est. L 4m) runs NNE and a shallow depression runs SSW (L c. 1m). In Westropp’s time the souterrain was accessible and he recorded it as ’34 feet 6 inches (10.52m) long, 4 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 5 inches (1.47–1.96m) wide inside, and 2 feet 10 inches (0.86m) at the entrance and 6 feet (1.83m) inside…. [and as having]… a projecting cornice and 12 lintels from 8 inches to 1 foot (0.2–0.3m) thick, and from 21 to 39 inches (0.53–0.99m) wide. [He also recorded] a shallow side recess 1 foot and 4 inches (0.41m) deep and 4 feet 6 inches (1.37m) long [and] a space 2 feet 6 inches (0.76m) deep… [that opened] at the end under the roof, but… [did] not seem to be a passage’ (Westropp 1911, 353). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-011 Burial ground
  Description

  On the west end of a low E–W ridge with excellent views in all directions and overlooking a ringfort (CL003-009----) to the SW and the site of another (CL003-013----) to the NE. Indicated and named ‘Killeen Grave Yard’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A roughly trapezoidal area (45m E–W; 20.5m N–S at E; 8m N–S at W) enclosed by a stone wall (H 1.2m at int. of W wall; H 1.9m at ext. of W wall), accessed through a gate in the W wall, from which the interior is crossed by a concrete path. There is a uniform concentration of burials, except at the west end where there are no obvious markers. The burials are marked by inscribed headstones, both fallen and upright. The earliest legible grave is of a young girl aged two years and three months dated to 1856. A small now practically illegible plaque set on the outside base of the W wall is dated to 1813. The graveyard continues to be used today. When surveyed in 1997, it had recently been cleaned up as part of a local community project. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-013 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a very slight E-facing slope just off the crest at the E end of low E–W ridge, in good quality mixed pasture and meadowland. Hachured and named ‘Caher of Mortyclogh’, with a cave indicated in the interior, on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Móthair Tí Clogh’ on Robinson’s (1977) map. A very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (est. int. dims. 44.3m N–S; 43.8m E–W) defined by a low grassed-over stone spread (max. H 0.8m; max. Wth 6m) which is reduced to a scarp over the exterior ENE–SSE and to a scarp over the interior WSW–NW. A single course of inner facing-stones forms an arc (L 4m) at N and a second arc (L 4m) of more substantial outer facing-stones (H 0.6m) survives at NW. The interior contains an accessible souterrain (CL003-013002-) and the ruins of a rectangular building (CL003-013003-). A later field wall overlies the N limits, roughly on the line of the inner cashel wall-face. A graveyard is located c. 100m to the WSW (CL003-011----) and a ringfort (not visible) lies c. 250m to the SW (CL003-009----). The name ‘Mothair’ (a local toponym for square ringforts) may refer to the original shape of this fort, or, as Westropp (1911, 352) tells us was locally believed, to ‘Mortough garbh O’Brien’ who, in 1317, fell in battle nearby. The second part of the name likely refers to the stone house (CL003-013003-) in the interior. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-013002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the NE quadrant of a cashel (CL003-013001-). Indicated and named ‘cave’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A souterrain comprising a stone-lined and lintelled chamber (8.75m ENE–WSW; 1.95m NNW–SSE; H 1.6m) with a rounded WSW end and clay floor. A square ope defined by two jambstones and a lintel (0.75m by 0.75m) near the WSW end of the chamber leads off towards the SSE into a creep (traceable L 2.6m; Wth 0.8m). Its S end is filled to roof level with clay and it may have led to another chamber. This may be the chamber reported by Cooke (1851, 297). The current entrance is at the ENE end of the chamber (1.2m) where a lintel has been displaced; this may be an original entrance or a creep. In Cooke’s time, two chambers connected by a creep were accessible. The second was of similar dimension to the first and ran perpendicular. He also reported the find of a ‘fairy millstone’, a round stone an inch and a half in diameter. He did not note whether it was perforated, but it is likely to have been a spindle whorl. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-013003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a cashel (CL003-013001-). A rectangular NW–SE orientated building defined by a largely grass-covered stony bank (Wth 2m; H 0.4m), which is traceable for 10m NW–SE and 5m NE–SW. Occasional wall-facing is visible on its SW side. This is likely to be the ‘Tí Clogh’ (stone house) referred to in the name of the cashel and townland (‘Mortyclogh/Mothair Tí Clogh’) in which it lies. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mortyclogh, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Mortyclogh · Mothar Tí Cloch

Area

1,166,344 m² (116.63 ha, 288.21 acres)

Civil parish

Abbey, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Abbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 212 households in the Abbey electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvelaghan, Behagh, Dooneen, Munnia

Placenames

Mortyclogh 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.