Cloghacloka

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghacloka, from 46 m² to 371,049 m² (37.1 ha, 91.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 7 Nov 2024Conditional

  the following buildings: A barn containing stables, a loose shed for horses, a storage barn for feedstuff & supplies, building containing an exercise lunging ring and building containing a horse walker and retention of two extensions to the dwelling house (granted under planning ref. no. 71,4729) one containing an office room and one consisting of a groom's apartment and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2461099

• 6 Feb 2019N/a

  infilling voids in field with concrete; soil and stone namely inert building waste totalling 24,450 tonnes. A Certificate of Registration (COR) will be applied to Limerick City & County Council for this activity

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1992

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 Cloghacloka.

Recorded monuments

• LI013-067 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Situated c. 20m N of the Barnakyle River on a gentle S-facing slope in poorly drained pasture with good views in all directions, but sheltered to SW by a deciduous wood on a hill. Partially excavated (Gowen, 1988) fulacht fiadh and possible trough. The mound material had a maximum thickness of 0.15m and covered an area c. 20m wide. Three roughly hewn planks were embedded into the mound material to a depth of 30mm. These were set parallel to each other on a level surface and may represent the basal lining of a trough. All three timbers had been worked and were well preserved. (Gowen 1988, 133-134) Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 2 April 2013

• LI013-069 Field system
  Description

  Situated in two fields N and S of the Barnakyle River in low-lying, poorly drained pasture with good views in all directions. Identified from aerial photographs as a number of low banks and mounds. The monument is not visible at ground level. Some outcropping of rock is visible on the ground.

• LI013-072 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle NW-facing slope, in pasture, with good views to N, W and E and sheltered to S. Depicted as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map but not marked on the 1924 OS 6-inch map. The monument was not evident on the ground when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 April 2013

• LI013-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1924 OS 6-inch map as a sub oval area (c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by a bank. The monument is heavily obscured by dense scrub vegetation but the enclosing element is evident as an earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth 1.4m; ext. H 1.1m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.2m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 April 2013

• LI013-126 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated in gently undulating marshy pasture, c. 5m W of a field boundary. The monument, heavily masked by scrub vegetation, consists of an oval platform (22m N-S; 10m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 1.6m; H 0.4m). The interior is strewn with small rocks. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 31 May 2013

• LI013-127 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated in gently rolling, poorly drained pasture. The site, an irregular ovoid, flat-topped area (21m NE-SW; 15m SE-NW) defined by scarp edge (H c. 1m) beside a small stream was recorded during an EIS for the N20/N21 Adare-Annacotty road scheme, and was subsequently excavated by James Eogan (96E380-AR12). The mound had been partially eroded by livestock at its NW and SW sides; at the NW side a possible stone setting or revetment was noted at the edge of the monument. Beneath a layer of sandstone pebbles a layer of possibly burnt stones mixed with loose black soil was found. Nothing was found to date the monument. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 31 May 2013

• LI013-212 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Site described as two hearths that were excavated by Margaret Gowen in 1986 in advance of the gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 180). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 29 June 2020

• LI013-213 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Excavated prior to the construction of the N20/N21 Road Improvement Scheme by Paul Logue under licence 98E0159. The site (24m north-east/south-west x 18m) was located in marshy, low-lying land close to the canalised remnant of a small stream. The results of the excavation were summarised as following; ‘It contained two main phases of activity, the earliest of which consisted of a low mound of burnt stone fragments in a grey-green, loam clay matrix. This phase was associated with a trough 1.8m north-east/south-west x 1.2m and 0.2m in maximum depth. The trough was cut into the subsoil from the north around clockwise to the south. The south-western through to north-western sides of the trough were formed by the building of a wall of stones and redeposited clay subsoil. Evidence was also uncovered to suggest that the trough was deepened by the continuation of the clay wall around its entire circuit. Internally the trough contained nine large stake-holes, most likely to support a wooden lining. A contemporary stone surface extended from the trough west to the stream. The early surface and trough were both overlain by a second, similar stone surface associated with a second trough 7.4m to the north. This second cut measured 3m east-west x 1.35m. The base was lined with clay and stones, and overlying this the sides of the cut were lined with a second deposit of clay and stones. This deposit was thickened and heightened above the old ground level, creating a wall similar to that surrounding the earlier trough. The clay wall was most likely supported on the exterior by stakes. Evidence of these was found around the circuit of the cut as stake-holes adjacent to the outer face of the wall. This method of construction formed a trough measuring 2.8m east-west x 0.7m and 0.55m in maximum depth. The trough was contemporary with two small hearths to the north and east. A third trough was uncovered adjacent to the south-west. It measured 1.58m north-south x 1.6m and had a maximum excavated depth of 0.4m. The cut contained seven large stake-holes, most likely providing the framework support for a wood-lined trough. Excavation suggests that the trough was deepened by the addition of a clay wall from the south-west clockwise around to the north-west. This trough cut the stone surface that serviced the secondary trough and was associated with one small hearth to the north and also the reuse of part of the secondary trough as a hearth. Both the second and final troughs were filled by material from the upper phase of the mound, a mix of burnt stone and loose, black soil. All features were cut into the compact, orange clay subsoil. The clay was maximum of 0.4m deep and overlay a gravel subsoil. The clay subsoil formed a capping on top of the gravel layer, with the base of the clay dictating the level of the water table. Any feature cutting below the base of the clay would immediately flood with water. Hence the three troughs were given the required depth by creating a shallow cut into the clay and raising the sides with the excavated subsoil as a water-tight clay wall’ (www.excavations.ie 1998; Logue 2000, 131-2). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 29 June 2020

• LI013-214 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Identified during archaeological monitoring associated with the N20/N21 Limerick Bypass. Excavated under licence no. 99E0364 by Mary B. Deevy during which four phases of activity were identified (Deevy 1999) and described as following; 'The earliest phase consisted of one large and two shallow pits, all filled with charcoal-rich soil and fragmented sandstone. The three pits were probably all troughs. Associated with the troughs were a number of very shallow pits or depressions filled with the same burnt material, some of which may have been hearths. Evidence for wooden structures was recovered in the form of stake-holes in the corners of the two shallow troughs and a short row of stake-holes nearby, which may have been a windbreak. No artefacts or animal bone were recovered from any of these features. The second and third phases of activity were represented by three straight, linear ditches, which were relatively modern field drains. The fill of part of one of these ditches was composed of displaced burnt material, indicating that the earlier, Phase 1, features had been disturbed at some stage by land development. It may be that a shallow mound or spread of burnt material was originally present and that Phase 1 represents the basal remains of a badly truncated fulacht fiadh. Another phase of activity was represented by a series of furrows. These were later than Phase 1, but it was not possible to identify their chronological relationship with Phases 2 and 3’ (www.excavations.ie 1999; Deevy 2000, 163-4). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 29 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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).

No address of the register names Cloghacloka with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cloghacloka · Cloch an Chócaigh

Area

1,377,895 m² (137.79 ha, 340.49 acres)

Civil parish

Mungret, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Patrickswell, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfort, Barnakyle, Cloghkeating, Dooneen, Greenmount

Placenames

Cloghacloka on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.