Moveen West
Moveen West is a townland in the civil parish of Moyarta, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 462.1 ha
- 1,142 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 13,865 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Moveen West, from 101 m² to 788,068 m² (78.81 ha, 194.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Moveen West 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
15 Apr 2026Conditional
to construct an agricultural slatted unit to existing farmyard, plus all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 26102
10 Nov 2025Conditional
to retain rear and first floor extension to existing dwelling house, minor elevational changes, retain and complete domestic garage, plus all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25349
5 Aug 2025Conditional
to construct (i) milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, milk tank, meal bin, rain water storage tank, holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, flow channel and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560486
5 Jun 2024Conditional
to (i) demolish Old Dry Store (ii) demolish old straw store (iii) construct a new calf house (iv) construct a new roof over existing cubicles (v) construct a new roof over existing slatted tank (vi) construct a new slatted livestock house. Proposed slatted house to incorporate easy feed, cubicles, flow channels & associated underground slatted slurry storage tank with external agitation & ancillary external concrete.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460264
9 May 2024Conditional
to alter and extend the existing dwelling house along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460203
22 Dec 2023Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, provide waste water treatment system (see previously Planning Ref. No P22/1081, and new entrance. Existing derelict building to be used as a farm office, and for the storage of livestock feed, including medical and veterinary supplies and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23643
8 Feb 2023Conditional
to erect dwelling house, garage, foul sewer treatment system, percolation area and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2361
19 Jan 2023Conditional
to alter and extend the existing dwelling house along with the installation of a proposed wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360002
1 Dec 2022Conditional
for the renovation of an existing derelict building, to construct a single-storey extension to the side & rear, construct new garage and create new site entrance (see previous Planning Ref. no P21/616) connect to new wastewater treatment system and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 221081
8 Nov 2022N/a
for the renovation of an existing derelict building, to construct a single storey extension to the side & rear, construct, new garage and create new site entrance ( see previous planning Ref. No. P21/616, connect to new wastewater treatment system and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 221005
8 Oct 2021Conditional
to construct a silage base on farm
Permission · Clare County Council, 211071
14 Jun 2021Conditional
1. To construct extension and conservatory to rear of existing farm house plus porch and bay windows to front elevation and provision for new windows and patio door. 2. New vehicular entrance. 3. A Private garage. 4. Decommission existing septic tank and upgrade to proprietary wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21616
7 Jul 2020Conditional
to refurbish and reroof the existing cottage and to construct a living / dining / kitchen extension to the existing cottage and to convert existing outbuildings to utility room / bathroom/ bedroom use and to construct a wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20457
24 Sept 2018Conditional
for development of a Livestock Slatted Unit with Cubicles and associated ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18755
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Kilkee Reefs SAC 002264
Recorded monuments
- CL055-008001 Promontory fort - coastal
Description
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- CL055-008002 Castle - tower house
Description
See attached document with 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. Date of upload: 19 December 2014
- CL055-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL055-013 Enclosure
Description
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- CL055-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL055-015 Standing stone
Description
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- CL065-017 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL065-020001 Hut site
Description
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- CL065-020002 Hut site
Description
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- CL065-020003 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL065-020004 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL065-021 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
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- CL065-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL065-023 Ringfort - rath
Description
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- CL065-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
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Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Moveen West.
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 Moveen West, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Moveen West.
- 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 Moveen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Moveen West
- Area
- 4,620,858 m² (462.09 ha, 1,141.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyarta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Electoral division
- Moveen, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breaghva, Carrownaweelaun, Lisheencrony, Lisheenfurroor, Moveen East
- Placenames
- Moveen West 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.