Violethill

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Violethill, from 59 m² to 104,476 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Broadford Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 4 Dec 2023Conditional

  to construct an extension to the rear of existing dwelling, a porch entrance to the front of existing dwelling, conversion of existing attic area to include dormer windows to front & rear of existing dwelling, detached garage, demolition of existing garden shed, install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2360525

• 28 Feb 2018Conditional

  for construction of 1.5 storey detached dwelling, detached domestic double garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, bored well, new entrance, connection to necessary services, boundary treatments and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18146

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  to alter, extend and renovate existing dwelling house, including all associated site works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17301

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 Violethill.

Recorded monuments

• CL044-012 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Violethill · Cnoc na Gaoithe

Area

870,163 m² (87.02 ha, 215.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilseily, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Kilseily, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilseily electoral division: 819 people in 272 households; 89% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doon, Drummin, Drummin, Gortnagonnella, O'Shea's Acres, Violethill

Placenames

Violethill 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.