# Turkenagh, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish Toirceanach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,812,201 m² (181.22 ha, 447.8 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 129,526 m² (12.95 ha, 32.01 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilkeedy, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilkeedy.md
- Barony: Inchiquin
- Electoral division: Corrofin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/5915
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 32276
- Centre: latitude 52.977493, longitude -8.981809 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turkenagh, from 171 m² to 1,154,274 m² (115.43 ha, 285.23 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1441724: 1,154,274 m² (115.43 ha, 285.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1441724.md
- Parcel 1429816: 532,505 m² (53.25 ha, 131.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429816.md
- Parcel 1512209: 129,526 m² (12.95 ha, 32.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1512209.md
- Parcel 1443629: 1,240 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443629.md
- Parcel 1473811: 171 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473811.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC, site code 001926, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex, site code 001926

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- CL017-053: House - 16th/17th century, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL017-053----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL017-053002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL017-053003-. 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

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 Turkenagh.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/turkenagh.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/turkenagh.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/turkenagh.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Turkenagh 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)

- Aglish: https://everytownland.com/clare/aglish.md
- Ballard: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballard-30081.md
- Ballyeighter: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyeighter.md
- Garryncallaha: https://everytownland.com/clare/garryncallaha.md
- Garvillaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/garvillaun-31256.md
- Kells: https://everytownland.com/clare/kells.md
- Ranaghan: https://everytownland.com/clare/ranaghan.md
- Rinecaha: https://everytownland.com/clare/rinecaha.md
- Rinroe: https://everytownland.com/clare/rinroe.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.

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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/turkenagh
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