Turlough

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlough, from 42 m² to 429,642 m² (42.96 ha, 106.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Turlough 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 Turlough 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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Turloughnagullaun 000071

Recorded monuments

• CL006-014002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a low knoll, part of which may be composed of collapsed debris, with good pastureland to the E but surrounded by poor rocky ground to S, W and N. Indicated and named ‘Turlough castle (in ruins)’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the 6-inch OS maps. Originally an O’Loughlin castle, it was conveyed to an Alderman of Galway, John Lynch, in 1590, but after some dispute was returned to O’Loughlin possession by 1601 (Ua Cróinín and Breen 2014). The Neylons were in possession by 1617 and under the able stewardship of Máire Rua, retained ownership throughout the tumultuous mid-seventeenth century (ibid.). The castle is not recorded after 1669 and likely then fell out of use (ibid.). Today, the site of the castle presents as a roughly circular flat-topped mound (dims. at base 19.1m N–S x 18.2m E–W; diam. on top 8m; max. H 3.4m). The foundation of a small rectangular building (traceable L 3m NNE–SSW; int. Wth 2.2m) defined by grassed-over stone walls (Wth 0.6–0.8m; H 0.2m) lies near its north end and a similar wall (L 4m) runs off the SW corner of the building in a SE direction. At the E upper surface some rubble also projects through the sod cover. The following items have been uploaded: CL006-014002-_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 4 May 2021

• CL006-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a low knoll in reclaimed pasture. Described in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1928, vol. 1, 34) as a caher within which was a souterrain. Westropp (1899, 381) noted that the ‘caher of Turlough “uamhainn na Turlaige” has been destroyed since before 1839’. A souterrain (CL006-15002-) is still extant. There are no visible remains of the enclosure at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 29 March 2017

• CL006-015002 Souterrain
  Description

  Marked and named 'Cave' on the OS 6-inch maps, this souterrain was uncovered during land clearance works in 1996. A survey of the monment was undertaken and access to the souterrain closed off; see attached report. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 9 October 2014

• CL006-016 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On top of a low knoll and surrounded by fields of extensively cleared and improved pastureland. Indicated and named ‘Killeenacurry’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. A subrectangular burial ground (27m E–W; 18.5m N–S) defined by field clearance to the W, a low scarp (H 0.4m) to the S and a modern drystone wall to the N and E. The burials occur throughout the interior and are marked by unworked flat slabs (max. H 0.6m; max. Wth 0.4m; max. T 0.1m) and headstones. There is a concentration of headstones and flat slabs to the SW of centre where they are orientated N–S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 4 May 2021

• CL006-166 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low NNE-SSW ridge in pasture. A subcircular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a low bank is visible on OS orthophotography (2013-2018). A NNW-SSW field bank crosses the W sector. This monument was brought to the attention of the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin, September 2020. The following image has been uploaded: CL006-166----_01.jpg OS orthophotograph (2013-2018) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 April 2021

• CL006-171 Enclosure
  Description

  On open karst with some scrub cover. An oval enclosure (c. 25m NE-SW; c. 18m NW-SE) defined by a stone wall noted on Digital Globe (2011-13) and on OSi Aerial Premium 2012-2018 by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Another possible enclosure lies c. 85m to the NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 May 2021

• CL006-172 Enclosure
  Description

  In a scrub-covered area of karst. An oval enclosure (diam. c. 23m) indicated on the OS 6-inch map and noted by Ros Ó Maoldúin. A similarly indicated enclosure (CL006-171----), visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) lies c. 85m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Turlough, about 1 in 5 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 high, 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 Turlough.

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

Name

Turlough · An Turlach

Area

5,175,359 m² (517.54 ha, 1,278.86 acres)

Civil parish

Oughtmama, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Oughtmama, the unit of the census

Census 2022

152 people lived in 59 households in the Oughtmama electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawinnaun, Ballyhehan, Gortaclare, Gortboyheen, Knockycallanan, Sheshia

Placenames

Turlough 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.