Cloghaviller
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinard, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cloch an Bhiolair
- Area
- 140.4 ha
- 347 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 6,288 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghaviller, from 219 m² to 368,212 m² (36.82 ha, 90.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghaviller 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Jul 2024Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system and polishing filter; together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460725
1 Apr 2020Conditional
the demolition of existing cottage and for the construction of a new dwelling, waste water treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20274
9 Apr 2019N/a
demolition of existing farm sheds and cottage in disrepair and the construction of a two storey dwelling house, separate single storey garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works with existing cobbled curt, perimeter stone walls and entrance peers to be retained
Permission, 3 homes · Limerick County Council, 19336
28 Feb 2018Conditional
a single storey extension to the south of the property wit a floor area of 35.6 sq. m and a single storey extension to the north of the property with a floor area of 58.7 sq. m
Retention · Limerick County Council, 18175
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghaviller.
Recorded monuments
- LI023-099001 Enclosure
Description
Earthwork complex described in 1943 as following; 'Complex of 2 Earthworks of Type A and 3 Ring-barrows. No. 2. The second platform structure is divided by a very shallow fosse which runs across it from east to west, Thig seems to be a modern drain which has become silted up. The spoil from it occupies the north side of the platform. There is no trace of an external fosse or bank. In the south-east quadrant of the platform there is a small ring-barrow which consists of very slight mound surrounded by a fosse. It has no outer bank. The overall diameter of the barrow is 25' [7.6m], while the overall diameter of the platform, which is not quite circular, is 90' [27.5m]. All five monuments are in a lowland marshy meadow' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI023-099002 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Earthwork complex described in 1943 as following; 'Complex of 2 Earthworks of Type A and 3 Ring-barrows. The second barrow lies to the south east of the last monument [LI032-099001-] described, and is separated from it by a distance of 60' [18m]. This consists of a very slight mound surrounded by a fosse. It is not quite circular, but its average overall diameter is 36' [11m]. All five monuments are in a lowland marshy meadow' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI023-099003 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
In wet, low-lying pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Enclosure (LI023-099001/005-) lie 80m to SW and 110m to WNW, respectively and ring-barrows (LI023-099002/--4-) lie 100m to SW and 200m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. This monument is an additional part of an earthwork complex described by O’Kelly as following: 'A Complex of 2 earthworks of Type A and 3 ring-barrows (O’Kelly 1943, 172). Monument is not visible on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 130.1). Monument is visible as a faint, roughly oval-shaped cropmark (30m E-W; 23m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017. See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 130.1 and Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31August 2020
- LI023-099004 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Earthwork complex described in 1943 as following; 'Complex of 2 Earthworks of Type A and 3 Ring-barrows. The third barrow is in the northern part of the same field. This is a very low mound surrounded by a fosse and outer bank. Both bank and fosse were originally continuous, but the bank is now broken on the north side where a modern fence has been built. Its overall diameter is 36' [11m]. All five monuments are in a lowland marshy meadow' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI023-099005 Enclosure
Description
In wet, low-lying pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Enclosure (LI023-099001-) lies 100m to SE and ring-barrows (LI023-099003-/004-/002-) lie 110m to ESE, 130m to N and 150m to SE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. This monument is an additional part of an earthwork complex described by O’Kelly as following: 'A complex of 2 earthworks of Type A and 3 ring-barrows (O’ Kelly 1943, 172). Monument identified as an earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 130.1). Monument is visible as a very faint, roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017. See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 130.1 and Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 August 2020
- LI023-100 Barrow - unclassified
Description
Earthwork complex described in 1943 as following; 'Complex of 2 Earthworks of Type A and 3 Ring-barrows. No. I. This is the larger of the Type A structures and consists of a low circular platform surrounded by a fosse. Outside this there was a bank which now remains on the east side of the monument for about one-third of its circuit. The maximum height of the platform over field level is 3' [0.9m] and the monument had an original overall diameter of 200' [61m] approximately' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 172). Outline of monument visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI023-344 Enclosure
Description
On reclaimed grassland with unclassified barrow (LI023-100----) immediately to NNE. Outline of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 34m) defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 August 2020
- LI032-094 Standing stone
Description
Standing stone described in 1943 as following; 'This is a low limestone pillar very well weathered. It measures 2' 4" [0.7m] by 1' 2" [0.36m] wide by 9" [0.23m] thick' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 171). No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI032-096 Standing stone
Description
Standing stone described in 1943 as following; 'This is well shaped limestone pillar measuring 3' 3" [1m] high, 2' [0.6m] wide and 1' [0.33m] thick' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 171-2). No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 February 2020
- LI032-201 Moated site
Description
In reclaimed pasture, immediately NW of a townland boundary with Rootiagh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 154: AP 4/3607), as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Monument is clearly visible as a rectangular-shaped enclosure (23m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by a bank with external fosse to SW, NW and NE and incorporated into the townland boundary to SE, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 154 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghaviller.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cloghaviller.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghaviller with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghaviller · Cloch an Bhiolair
- Area
- 1,404,397 m² (140.44 ha, 347.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Smallcounty
- Electoral division
- Cahercorney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cahercorney electoral division: 761 people in 260 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinard, Ballyloundash, Galboola, Rathjordan, Rootiagh
- Placenames
- Cloghaviller 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.