Mountcashel

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcashel, from 156 m² to 202,137 m² (20.21 ha, 49.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Water Bodies (General)
  Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  for development which consists of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19295

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, vehicular access including all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18448

• 29 Mar 2018N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, vehicular access including all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18256

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Mountcashel.

Recorded monuments

• CL043-083 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• CL043-085002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The following items have been uploaded: CL043-085002-_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. CL043-085002-_01.jpg View of SE elevation. CL043-085002-_02.jpg NE elevation. Doorway at ground level hidden by trees. CL043-085002-_02.jpg SW elevation. Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revised upload: 12 March 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 8/1973).

Architectural heritage

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

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 Mountcashel, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_808 (ZIP).

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

Name

Mountcashel · Moin Caisil

Area

376,819 m² (37.68 ha, 93.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfinaghta, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Lower

Electoral division

Rossroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

718 people lived in 232 households in the Rossroe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmaclancy, Ballymulcashel, Ballysheen More, Kilmurry

Placenames

Mountcashel 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.