# Violethill, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilseily, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Cnoc na Gaoithe. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 870,163 m² (87.02 ha, 215.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,072 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilseily, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilseily.md - Barony: Tulla Lower - Electoral division: Kilseily, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7484 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 32287 - Centre: latitude 52.815439, longitude -8.63332 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Violethill, from 59 m² to 104,476 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1513106: 104,476 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513106.md - Parcel 1477937: 100,114 m² (10.01 ha, 24.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477937.md - Parcel 4992607: 86,450 m² (8.64 ha, 21.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4992607.md - Parcel 1513157: 84,474 m² (8.45 ha, 20.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513157.md - Parcel 1445776: 66,694 m² (6.67 ha, 16.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1445776.md - Parcel 1518788: 60,184 m² (6.02 ha, 14.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1518788.md - Parcel 1502765: 48,243 m² (4.82 ha, 11.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1502765.md - Parcel 1439709: 36,090 m² (3.61 ha, 8.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1439709.md - Parcel 4120338: 35,048 m² (3.5 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4120338.md - Parcel 1460603: 32,267 m² (3.23 ha, 7.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460603.md - Parcel 1444607: 29,818 m² (2.98 ha, 7.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444607.md - Parcel 2611234: 28,903 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2611234.md - Parcel 1467388: 26,930 m² (2.69 ha, 6.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1467388.md - Parcel 1455881: 19,002 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1455881.md - Parcel 1458866: 14,404 m² (1.44 ha, 3.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1458866.md - Parcel 1505238: 14,372 m² (1.44 ha, 3.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505238.md - Parcel 1434176: 14,203 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434176.md - Parcel 1444091: 7,135 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444091.md - Parcel 2951332: 5,072 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2951332.md - Parcel 1491297: 3,998 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491297.md - Parcel 1482856: 3,769 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482856.md - Parcel 1484203: 3,755 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1484203.md - Parcel 1477549: 3,582 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477549.md - Parcel 2450344: 3,573 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2450344.md - Parcel 1473700: 2,929 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1473700.md - Parcel 1438165: 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438165.md - Parcel 1445083: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1445083.md - Parcel 1508323: 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1508323.md - Parcel 1468333: 2,057 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1468333.md - Parcel 1517403: 2,053 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517403.md - Parcel 5355661: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5355661.md - Parcel 1497611: 1,296 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1497611.md - Parcel 1432311: 1,246 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1432311.md - Parcel 1485904: 384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1485904.md - Parcel 1430756: 236 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430756.md - Parcel 4120332: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4120332.md - Parcel 1430156: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430156.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Broadford Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Dec 2023, Clare County Council 2360525: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360525/0 - 28 Feb 2018, Clare County Council 18146: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18146/0 - 21 Apr 2017, Clare County Council 17301: Conditional. Permission. to alter, extend and renovate existing dwelling house, including all associated site works and services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17301/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Violethill. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL044-012: Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL044-012----. 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 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 Violethill. ## 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 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, 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/violethill-32287.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/violethill-32287.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/violethill-32287.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Violethill 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) - Doon: https://everytownland.com/clare/doon-31038.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/clare/drummin-31121.md - Drummin: https://everytownland.com/clare/drummin-31120.md - Gortnagonnella: https://everytownland.com/clare/gortnagonnella.md - O'Shea's Acres: https://everytownland.com/clare/osheas-acres.md - Violethill: https://everytownland.com/clare/violethill-32286.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/violethill-32287 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/violethill-32287