Teernea

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Teernea, from 2,130 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres) to 638,955 m² (63.9 ha, 157.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Teernea 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Teernea in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-097 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pasture c. 110m S of Lough George. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 242) as a ‘cathair’ with a ‘wall 6 feet [c. 1.8m] thick to the west, where it is only 3 feet [c. 0.9m] high and 10 feet [c. 3m] thick, and over 4 feet high[c. 1.2m] to the east. The north and north-west parts are levelled to the foundations, which are large blocks’. A poorly preserved subcircular cashel (int. diam. 33m), much reduced since Westropp’s visit, defined by a wide low bank (Wth 2-5m; ext. H 1m; int. H 1.2m) from E-S-W.  The bank incorporates some large stones blocks (L 1.5m; Wth 1m; D 0.5m), the surviving remains of original cashel walling. The interior is slightly lower than the surrounding ground level.  Westropp, T.J. 1913 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in the Corofin district, Co. Clare. (No. XI) (continued). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3(3), 232-260.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-098 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In hazel scrub on a N-facing slope, and abutting the W side of an adjoining cashel (CL017-098002-). Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an ‘enclosure (conjoined)’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 242) as a ‘curious fort, 8-shaped in plan, of two equal rings, and excellent masonry with two faces and filling. It seems to have been built in one piece: the wall is usually 4 feet [c. 1.2m] to 4 feet 6 inches [c. 1.4m] high’.  An oval cashel (diams. 38m NE-SW, 27.3m NW-SE) has been significantly denuded since Westropp’s visit and is defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3-6m; H 0.6-1m) incorporating large blocks of original cashel-wall masonry (L 0.5m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m). A modern-looking gap connects the monument to the abutting cashel (CL017-098002-) to the E. Internally, three pens have been constructed against the collapsed cashel wall at N, SW and SE.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-098002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In hazel scrub on a N-facing slope, and abutting the E side of an adjoining cashel (CL017-098----). Hachured on both the first (1842 and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an ‘enclosure (conjoined)’ in the RMP (1996). Described by Westropp (1913, 242) as a ‘curious fort, 8-shaped in plan, of two equal rings, and excellent masonry with two faces and filling. It seems to have been built in one piece: the wall is usually 4 feet [c. 1.2m] to 4 feet 6 inches [c. 1.4m] high’.  An oval cashel (int. diams 26.2m NE-SW; 23.1m NW-SE) has been significantly denuded since Westropp’s visit and is defined by a collapsed stone spread (Wth 3-6m; H 0.6-1m). A modern-looking gap connects the monument to the abutting cashel (CL017-098----) to the W. Internally, an amorphous clearance cairn (diam. c.7m) lies at the centre.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-100002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a SW-facing rise in scrub-covered limestone pavement. Marked and labelled ‘Tobermacduagh’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The holy well comprises two small limestone solution holes (diams. 0.25-0.3m) enclosed within a low D-shaped, drystone walled well-house (dims. L 3.7m E-W, Wth 3.2m N-S; H 1m) in which a SSW-facing opening (L 0.65m; Wth 0.5m; H 0.3m) gives access to the ‘well’. A wedge-shaped shelf above the ope (L 0.85m; Wth 0.65m) holds an array of votive offerings: when inspected in 1999, these included statues and - strung across the opening to the shelf – a link of 13 BIC lighters. Also present were the tops of whiskey bottles nailed in lines on boards and affixed to boxes, along with c. 20 small egg-sized pebbles. A small U-shaped enclosure abuts the E side of the well-house and the ‘well’ is surrounded by circular ring (diams. 9.5m N-S; 8.6m E-W) of spaced upright slabs (av. dims. L 0.1-0.2m; Wth 0.2-0.2m; H c. 1m), set in grykes. A larger, and later subcircular enclosure (diams. 26.1m E-W; 23.8m N-S) – not recorded on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map – surrounds the well and is defined by a well-preserved drystone wall (Wth c. 0.5m; H 1.4m), which lacks an obvious entrance gap or stile.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 22-10-2025

• CL017-217 Structure
  Description

  Situated just off the summit of a low hill in pasture. Indicated and named ‘Pillar’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and ‘Tower’ on the 1916 edition. A solid masonry structure (H 3.9m; 1.75m x 1.8m) built on rock outcrop with an incomplete conical top. The NE side has protruding steps which rise to the top. Known locally as ‘Bridgeman’s Tower’, this was in full view of Teernea House once owned by the Bridgeman family, and may have been used as a flagstand. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 June 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Teernea.

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

About 1 in 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Teernea.

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.

No address of the register names Teernea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Teernea

Area

668,154 m² (66.82 ha, 165.1 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Muckanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muckanagh electoral division: 374 people in 127 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyogan Beg, Kells, Ranaghan, Teermulmoney, Teernea Commons

Placenames

Teernea 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.