Parteen

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Parteen, from 161 m² to 47,198 m² (4.72 ha, 11.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  for development which will consist of planning permission for a period of 10 years to construct and complete a Solar Energy development with a total site area of 36.70 hectares, to include the construction of PV panels mounted on metal frames, a substation, inverter substations, internal access tracks (new and upgraded), underground cabling, security fencing with CCTV cameras and access gates, a temporary construction compound and all ancillary grid infrastructure and associated works. The Solar Farm would be operational for 40 years. The proposed grid route will connect the substation at the application site to the existing grid infrastructure at Ardnacrusha Power Station via a 38kV underground cable which is 1.2km in length (320m of which is on the local road L3056). A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted with this application

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460416

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• CL063-029 Enclosure
  Description

  On a small, low rise, in gently undulating pasture with moderate views of the surrounding landscape SSE-NNW, which are obscured by woodland NNW-SSE. Noted on Bing satellite imagery at http://binged.it/1Faf0fV; accessed 27 May 2015. This is a small circular area (diam. 12m) defined by the remains of a low scarp (Wth 1.4m; H 0.3m). There are traces of a possible entrance (Wth 2m) at N. The interior is generally level and grass covered. Enclosure (CL063-031----) is c. 180m to S. The following images have been uploaded: CL063-029----_01.jpg From W. General view of monument. CL063-029----_02.jpg From NW. Cross-section view of scarp at SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 December 2018

• CL063-031 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low rise, in gently undulating pasture with moderate views of the surrounding landscape to N and E, otherwise limited by woodland NE-ENE and hedgerows in the foreground to S and W. It is an oval area (21m N-S; 18m E-W) defined a low, yet well-formed scarp (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m). There are no obvious signs of an entrance, but it may have been located where there is higher ground to NE. An external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.1m) is present S-NW and NNE-ENE. The interior is sloping down gently to S and is grass covered. Enclosure (CL063-029----) is c. 180m to N in the same field. The following images have been uploaded: CL063-031----_01.jpg From NNE. General view of monument. CL063-031----_02.jpg From WNW. Cross-section view of scarp and fosse at NNE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 December 2018

Architectural heritage

• Quinsborough House, country house, 1760–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1765, with full-height canted bay windows end bays, added c. 1850. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut-stone parapet. Rendered walls with moulded cut stone eaves cornice and continuous sill band. Limestone cut-stone tripartite doorcase to centre approached by flight of steps, altered and with replacement fittings to openings. Pair of flanking detached two-bay two-storey pavilions with lunette windows to first floor, linked to house by three-bay single-storey screen walls having round-headed niches and limestone square-headed pedestrian gateways. Detached single-bay single-storey gate lodge with pedimented prostyle diastyle portico. Cut-limestone panelled piers with cast-iron gates set in curved walls.

• Parteen-a-Lax, house, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey house, built 1901 by architect Robert Donough O'Brien. Recessed entrance bay having portico. Canted bay window to rear. Shallow segmental vaulted roof with replacement aluminium sheeting, cut-limestone circular-profile chimneystacks to each corner, central rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rusticated limestone walls with advanced frieze, dentillated eaves, cut-stone end bays and plinth. Cut-limestone entablature and canted pilasters to timber panelled door, approached by steps. Timber sliding sash windows set in single, paired and tripartite arrangements. Three-bay single-storey house to side. Complex of stables/garages to site. Monolithic cut-stone piers with wrought-iron gate.

• Saint Patrick's Church (Saint Patricks), church/chapel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1840, comprising nave with three-stage tower and spire to left hand side and recessed single-bay sacristy to right hand side. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone copings, wrought-iron wind vane and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls to nave. Irregularly coursed stone with plat bands, blind quatrefoils and castellations to tower. Pointed arch openings with stone sills and paired timber sliding sash windows to nave. Square-headed openings with quarry glazing and label mouldings to tower. Pointed arch openings with timber louvres to tower belfry. Segmental-arched door opening with timber matchboard door. Wrought-iron gate and cut-stone gate piers set in rubble stone boundary walls.

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 Parteen, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_948 (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 Parteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Parteen · An Pairtín

Area

556,157 m² (55.62 ha, 137.43 acres)

Civil parish

St. Patrick's, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Lower

Electoral division

Ballyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,030 people lived in 2,061 households in the Ballyglass electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykeelaun, Castlebank, Garraun, Quinspool North, Quinspool South

Placenames

Parteen 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.