Springmount
Townland in the civil parish of Killokennedy, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare
- Area
- 139.7 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 4,869 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springmount, from 3 m² to 238,193 m² (23.82 ha, 58.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
No zone of a development plan covers Springmount 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
5 Feb 2026Conditional
to construct an Agricultural Shed and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660053
23 Mar 2023Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360083
1 Dec 2022N/a
to demolish existing derelict dwelling house and existing shed and for the construction of a new replacement dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221080
10 Jun 2020Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, garage, entrance and install an effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20373
13 Nov 2017Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, driveway and garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17863
2 Nov 2017Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, driveway and garage, install a septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17835
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: Glenomra Wood SAC 001013
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenomra Wood 001013
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Springmount.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Springmount.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Springmount.
- 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
No address of the register names Springmount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Springmount
- Area
- 1,397,393 m² (139.74 ha, 345.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killokennedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Fahymore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Fahymore electoral division: 364 people in 128 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyquin Beg, Ballyquin More, Cappanaslish, Fahy More South, Kilmore, Leitrim
- Placenames
- Springmount 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.