Tullagh Upper

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullagh Upper, from 153 m² to 146,405 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tullagh Upper 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 Tullagh Upper 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tullagh Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CL016-075002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the E edge of a flat plateau in hilly coarse pastureland and within a small farmyard overlooked by higher ground to the S. A coniferous forest plantation lies 0.8km to the NW. Named ‘Tullagh Castle (in ruins)’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. It was built sometime before 1570 by Morrough O’ Brien (Ua Cróinín and Breen 2014). O’Donovan described it as a ‘ruined castle’ in 1839 (Comber 1979, 90). When surveyed in 1992 by Ua Cróinín and Breen (2014), all that survived was the 'angle of an internal wall' (H 2m; L of both sections 2m). However, according to local information, one wall stood almost to its full height up to the 1930s, when it was blasted to provide stone for a nearby two-storey farmhouse. Some quoinstones were reused in the corners of the latter house and fragment of a sillstone was noted in the farmyard (ibid.). The surviving walling (Wth 0.68m) consists of a double-faced wall with a mortared rubble core. Some undulations in the field level c. 10m to its W may be associated with it. As noted by Ua Cróinín and Breen (ibid.), the width of the wall suggests that it is more likely to be an internal wall of the castle or, alternatively, it may be the remains of an associated bawn wall or outbuilding. 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attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-075002_01.jpg View from NW Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 6 May 2022

• CL016-152 Fulacht fia
  Description

  At the bottom of a NE-facing slope in rough pasture, overlooking a stream c. 5m to the N. Recorded by MacMahon (1991, 48) who noted that, according to local information, in the past this monument and similar ones in the locality were known as a ‘cearta [sic] brannach’. The term ‘ceárta’ means forge and whenever such mounds were disturbed by ploughing ‘they were found to contain material similar to the debris sometimes seen around a blacksmith’s fire.’ A classic horseshoe-shaped fulacht fia defined by a grass-covered mound (max. dims. 10.1m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE; H 0.3-0.8m) opening to the NW. The sunken area marks the trough (3.2m NW-SE; 1.6m NE-SW). The following image has been uploaded: CL016-152----_01.jpg View from W Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 4 August 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Tullagh Upper, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Tullagh Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Tullagh Upper · Na Tulacha Uachtarach

Area

900,259 m² (90.03 ha, 222.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfenora, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Kiltoraght, the unit of the census

Census 2022

194 people lived in 74 households in the Kiltoraght electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballagh, Ballynacarhagh, Clogher, Kilfenora, Lickeen East, Tullagh Lower

Placenames

Tullagh Upper 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.