Mountcatherine
Mountcatherine is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltenanlea, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Ceapach na Muc.
- Area
- 93.9 ha
- 232 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 2,471 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountcatherine, from 54 m² to 99,465 m² (9.95 ha, 24.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Mountcatherine 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
30 Jun 2026Conditional
of as constructed dwellinghouse, particularly retention of converted garage with dormer window, front porch, sunroom on north gable, kitchen extension to the rear, and all associated site works. Original Permission Ref: P96-423
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26182
24 Sept 2025Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning for P21-600 to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Extension of duration, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25303
6 Jan 2025Conditional
of as constructed detached domestic garage, retention of minor amendments to dwelling as previously granted (Planning Permission 16/681 refers) and all associated ancillary and incidental works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 2560003
8 Jul 2022Conditional
for the development which will consist of works as follows: Change of site boundaries from that previously granted under P03/115
Permission · Clare County Council, 22617
3 Feb 2022N/a
for development which will consist of works to make a new road entrance and driveway linking existing commercial studio (P93/210) to existing single storey house (P03/117)
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2286
10 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21600
10 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21601
26 Aug 2020Refused
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20584
26 Aug 2020Refused
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site woks
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20586
21 Apr 2020N/a
to construct an extension to the existing dwelling house consisting of a new bedroom and ensuite over existing garage
Permission · Clare County Council, 20259
6 Mar 2020Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P15/86 to erect new farmhouse, office, stables, septic tank/foul sewer treatment plant, percolation area and new entrance to site
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 20163
12 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18909
26 Mar 2018N/a
to revise house front elevation and site boundaries, Planning Ref No. P15-86 refers.
Permission · Clare County Council, 18231
30 Nov 2017Conditional
The Development will consist of works as follows: 1. To amend condition number C1 of Permission P93-210 to link existing commercial studio to new dwelling as granted permission under file P01-2350 instead of former dwelling as granted permission under file P8-21073. 2. To revise planning boundaries to reflect this change of association.
Permission · Clare County Council, 17925
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloonlara House 000028
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Mountcatherine.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountcatherine.
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 Mountcatherine, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_995 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mountcatherine with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Mountcatherine · Ceapach na Muc
- Area
- 939,168 m² (93.92 ha, 232.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltenanlea, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,987 people lived in 660 households in the Kiltenanlea electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Cappavilla North, Derryfadda, Newtown, Oakfield, Reanabrone, Rosmadda East, Springfield
- Placenames
- Mountcatherine 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.