Turkenagh

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turkenagh, from 171 m² to 1,154,274 m² (115.43 ha, 285.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Turkenagh 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 Turkenagh 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

• CL017-053 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  On NW shore of Lough George, on an overgrown peninsula extending SE into the lake. Drawn as a rectangular building and labelled ‘Castle (in ruins)’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Tower house’ in the RMP (1996). According to Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997), in 1641 Turkenagh townland was the property of the Earl of Thomond, with a castle mentioned here in 1656, let to Henry Hayward. In 1664 Edward Barry was a tenant at Turkenagh and in 1696 Constance O’Davoren was the occupant. In c. 1712 the Earl of Thomond made out a lease in perpetuity of Turkenagh to Edward Wilson (ibid.).    This very poorly preserved rectangular structure (int. dims. 9.95m ESE-WNW; 4.2m NNE-SSW) is defined by walls (Wth 0.6-0.7m; max. H over 4m at SE) of limestone rubble (ibid.). The line of the W and most of the E gable walls survive; but less so the N and S sidewalls. There is a robbed-out embrasure at the E end of the N wall. In the centre of the E wall, a very large embrasure (H 2m), of which only the S side survives, may be a later, 18th-century feature. At the NW corner is an unusual embrasure, only the W side of which survives and is orientated NW-SE through the wall at an angle, towards the NW corner of the structure. There is a sort of buttress outside this corner on the W side, which appears to be coeval with the wall. Two possibly similarly dated structures are adjacent: one (CL017-053002-) c. 7m to the NNW and the second (CL017-053003-) c. 33m to the NE.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 13-10-2023

• CL017-053002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  In mixed outcropping rock and scrub on the NW shore of Lough George, near the landward end of a peninsula extending E into the lake. This poorly preserved rectangular structure (int. dims. 11.05m NE-SW; c. 5m NW-SE) is defined by stone walls which are clearest at SW (Wth 1.15m; max. H 1.8m). The NE sidewall (Wth 1.05m) has rubble piled against both faces (H 1.4m) . An internal wall (Wth 0.9m) runs NW-SE dividing the structure into two rooms (SW room L 5.45m; NE room L 4.7m NE-SW). Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) suggest that this building may have been a hall. There are two other 16th/17th-century houses adjacent: one (CL017-053----) c. 7m to the SSE and another (CL017-053003-) c. 25m to the ENE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• CL017-053003 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  On an outcrop which falls away (H c. 2m) just to the NE, on a karst peninsula at the NW shore of Lough George. This poorly preserved rectangular structure (9.15m NE-SW; 4.7m NW-SE) is defined only by its NE (Wth 1.15m) and SW (0.7m) end walls. There are two other possible 16th/17th-century houses adjacent: one (CL017-053002-) c. 25m to the WSW and another (CL017-053----) c. 33m to the SW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Turkenagh.

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

Name

Turkenagh · Toirceanach

Area

1,812,201 m² (181.22 ha, 447.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Corrofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corrofin electoral division: 1,362 people in 535 households; 72% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aglish, Ballard, Ballyeighter, Garryncallaha, Garvillaun, Kells, Ranaghan, Rinecaha, Rinroe

Placenames

Turkenagh 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.