Mountrivers
Townland in the civil parish of Killard, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare; in Irish Mountrivers
- Area
- 381.8 ha
- 943 acres
- Land parcels
- 171
- registered freehold, median 8,679 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
171 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountrivers, from 85 m² to 212,895 m² (21.29 ha, 52.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 73 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Mountrivers Cluster, Clare · 17 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jun 2025Conditional
for the following development: a) demolish existing extension to the rear of the existing remaining walls of attached outbuilding; b) construct a new rear extension and side extension to the existing dwelling house; c). construct a new building attached to the dwelling house, to be used for short-term letting purposes; d). elevational changes to the existing dwelling house; e). all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560361
3 Mar 2025Conditional
of the first floor area of house No 2A (Planning Ref No P03/612)
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560098
1 May 2024Conditional
of existing apartment, sun room and shed
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460190
6 Dec 2023Conditional
to RETAIN the front wall and gate as constructed and planning PERMISSION to complete the front wall and for an extension and refurbishment of an existing dwelling house along with all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360528
22 Feb 2023Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, private garage, site entrance with connection to public sewer and all other associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360036
15 Feb 2022Refused
to replace the existing substandard dwelling with a new dwelling, using existing connections to services and all associated site and ancillary works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 22128
5 May 2021Conditional
to RETAIN: 1. The house as built on site, which is a mirror image of that granted under reference P98/1903; 2 The attached Garage and Rear Porch and 3. The Detached Steeltech Storage Shed and for PERMISSION to revise the Boundaries granted under P98/1903 and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21433
16 Mar 2021Conditional
for alterations to an existing house, granted under P06-191 and planning PERMISSION to construct a new private garage and associated works
Retention · Clare County Council, 21237
26 Feb 2018Conditional
to demolish existing structurally impaired dwelling house and construct new dwelling house with upgraded wastewater treatment system with all necessary ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18143
21 Aug 2017Unconditional
for the following development: The existing three-span bridge will be demolished. A new two-span bridge of reinforced concrete with masonry finish will be constructed including a local realignment of the N-67 at the bridge. Ancillary site development works will be necessary to facilitate the demolition and construction works
Permission · Clare County Council, 178005
10 Apr 2017N/a
to (a) Remove existing pillars of hay shed (b) Construct a new agricultural machinery shed, (c) Construct a new entrance onto public road and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17258
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 Mountrivers.
Recorded monuments
- CL047-021 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mountrivers.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_220 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Mountrivers, Doonbeg6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Mountrivers · Mountrivers
- Area
- 3,817,949 m² (381.79 ha, 943.44 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Doonbeg, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doonbeg electoral division: 790 people in 277 households; 79% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherfeenick North, Caherfeenick South, Carrowmore South, Doonbeg, Drumellihy (Cunningham), Drumellihy (Westropp), Sragh
- Placenames
- Mountrivers 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.