# Tullagh Upper, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfenora, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare; in Irish Na Tulacha Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 900,259 m² (90.03 ha, 222.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 29,119 m² (2.91 ha, 7.2 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfenora, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilfenora.md - Barony: Corcomroe - Electoral division: Kiltoraght, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5998 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 32254 - Centre: latitude 52.970727, longitude -9.199435 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullagh Upper, from 153 m² to 146,405 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1441710: 146,405 m² (14.64 ha, 36.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441710.md - Parcel 1458855: 133,056 m² (13.31 ha, 32.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458855.md - Parcel 1508312: 124,719 m² (12.47 ha, 30.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508312.md - Parcel 1429808: 75,037 m² (7.5 ha, 18.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429808.md - Parcel 1458149: 68,284 m² (6.83 ha, 16.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458149.md - Parcel 1490454: 65,877 m² (6.59 ha, 16.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1490454.md - Parcel 1453855: 54,728 m² (5.47 ha, 13.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453855.md - Parcel 3778569: 52,489 m² (5.25 ha, 12.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3778569.md - Parcel 2449967: 50,670 m² (5.07 ha, 12.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2449967.md - Parcel 1458307: 34,737 m² (3.47 ha, 8.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458307.md - Parcel 2611346: 30,812 m² (3.08 ha, 7.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2611346.md - Parcel 1503521: 27,427 m² (2.74 ha, 6.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503521.md - Parcel 1473353: 12,089 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473353.md - Parcel 2693229: 5,009 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693229.md - Parcel 2693232: 4,557 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2693232.md - Parcel 6131265: 4,167 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6131265.md - Parcel 1469406: 3,048 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469406.md - Parcel 1495647: 2,449 m² (0.24 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1495647.md - Parcel 1495132: 1,809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1495132.md - Parcel 1512307: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512307.md - Parcel 5531993: 183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531993.md - Parcel 5531995: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5531995.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Tullagh Upper in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Tullagh Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL016-075002: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-075002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL016-152----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tullagh Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagh-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagh-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagh-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballagh-30074.md - Ballynacarhagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballynacarhagh.md - Clogher: https://everytownland.com/clare/clogher-30666.md - Kilfenora: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilfenora.md - Lickeen East: https://everytownland.com/clare/lickeen-east.md - Tullagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagh-lower.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullagh-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/tullagh-upper