Tarmon
Tarmon is a townland in the civil parish of Killimer, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Tearmann.
- Area
- 269.4 ha
- 666 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 6,324 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tarmon, from 518 m² to 358,085 m² (35.81 ha, 88.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Tarmon 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
23 Sept 2021Conditional
to build a new dwelling house, a private garage with new on-site sewage treatment system and all necessary ancillary services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211015
23 Mar 2017Conditional
to remove existing rear extension and replace with new rear extension to existing dwelling plus all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17208
9 Feb 2017Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house with attached carport and private garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and new site entrance along with all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 1788
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 Tarmon.
Recorded monuments
- CL058-041 Earthwork
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.
- CL058-042 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.
- CL058-043 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.
- CL058-075 Ringfort - rath
Description
In a wet field of pasture. A circular area (int. diam. c. 24m) defined by two earthen banks (max. ext. diam. c. 60m) and an intervening broad fosse (c. 5-6m) visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 and noted by Johnny Ryan, Forest Service, 2024. The S half is overgrown and the NE portion is truncated by a NW-SE laneway not marked on any OS maps. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 November 2025
- CL068-003 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.
- CL068-008 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 Tarmon.
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 Tarmon, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tarmon.
- 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 Tarmon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Tarmon · An Tearmann
- Area
- 2,693,733 m² (269.37 ha, 665.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killimer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Knock, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 232 people lived in 90 households in the Knock electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycurraun, Breaghva, Derrylough, Knockerry East, Knocknahooan, Knocknahooan, Lisheenydeen, Tonavoher
- Placenames
- Tarmon 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.