Mountain Common

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mountain Common, from 218 m² to 1,154,313 m² (115.43 ha, 285.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Mountain Common 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 Mountain Common 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

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inishturk 000509

Recorded monuments

• MA094-009 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA094-010 Fulacht fia
  Description

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• MA094-011 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA094-012 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA094-020001 Field system
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA094-020002 Cist
  Description

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• MA094-026 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA094-027 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated immediately E of the summit of Knocklackan, the large hill that dominates the N side of the island of Inishturk (192m OD). Located in an area characterised by unenclosed blanket bog with numerous modern turf drying stands located adjacent to the N. The signal tower is located on moderately sloping ground that makes up the ridge of Knocklackan. The signal tower has expansive views in all directions, except the W which is blocked by the summit of Knocklackan, and to the SE where an adjacent hill blocks the line of site. Located c. 854m to the ENE of the coastline at its closest point. The partially-ruined Shivel Head Signal Tower (MA084-001010-), located c. 11.2kms to the NE\NNW to the W side of Clare Island, is clearly visible from this site on Inishturk in good weather. The largely ruinous Cleggan Hill Signal Tower (GA009-007----), County Galway, located c. 15.5kms to the S, can no longer be seen from the site. The signal tower on Inishturk is located c. 1.95kms NN of a coastal promontory fort (MA104-002----), indicated as 'Dun Ooghmore' on the Ordnance Survey third ed. six-inch map of c. 1910, at Ballyheer to the S coast of the island, and c. NW of the ruinous ‘St. Columba’s Church’ (MA094-008001-) and graveyard (MA094-008002-). The remains of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1806) originally two-storey square-plan signal tower (int. dims. 4.25m N-S x 4.25m E-W; wall H 3.74m), built with randomly coursed rubble stone masonry. The signal tower now survives as a low, largely-collapsed ruin, and only the semi-basement level and sections of the ground floor remain upstanding. The walls of the tower face in the cardinal directions (N, S, E and W). The N part of the E wall is the best-preserved section of the building. The S wall and the S portion of the E wall are now mostly collapsed. The N wall features the lower parts of two ground floor window openings with remains of splayed embrasures. The S wall features only the lower section of a window opening, located close to the W corner. The external face of the W wall is plain. The external face of the E wall is plain apart from a centrally-located bulge on the external surface that originally housed the chimney flue, and by a square-shaped chute located close to the N corner that penetrates through the width of the wall. Internally, the N and S walls feature slots below the remains of the window openings, which would have originally held the ground floor timbers (floorboards, and possibly joists). The W wall is blank, and the E wall retains most of a central fireplace flanked by a complete square-headed alcove to the N and by the lower section of a partially-collapsed alcove to the S. A pair of substantial joist holes are located on either side of the central fireplace, set at the same height as the ground floor joist holes on the N and S walls. The internal opening of the square-profile chute is located at the base of the N alcove, set close to its N edge. Despite the fragmentary remains, enough evidence survives to orientate the building; the doorway would have been located to the centre of W side at first floor level, and bartizans would have been located over the NE and SE corners of the tower. The tower is built on a small rock-cut terrace cut into the hillside. The S side of this terrace is defined as an almost vertically-sided cut located adjacent to the S elevation of the tower (c. 1.2m S of wall edge; Wth E-W c. 8.2m), and it continues along the SW and SE corners of the tower for a short distance. The terrace is infilled with rubble from the collapse of the building. Apart from the rubble infilling the terrace and a low spread of rubble within the signal tower, there is an absence of collapsed rubble stone in the vicinity of the signal tower, suggesting this has been removed from the site. A small oval-shaped lime kiln (ext. dims c. 3.4m NE-SW x c. 3.1m NW-SE; int. dims of chamber c. 1.6m E-W x 1.5m N-S) is located c. 11.5m to the NW of the signal tower. The sub-circular chamber of this kiln survives as a well-defined ‘bowl’ with sides that slope inwards towards the top, and with a short flue extending to the SE. A lintel stone is present at the join between the flue and the bowl. A lime kiln is indicated on the Ordnance Survey six-inch first ed. map (surveyed 1837-1839) in this location. A concrete trigonometry pillar is located c. 6.5m NE of the signal tower. This is surrounded by a small modern cairn. This signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 07/07/22 Images: MA094-027----.01 N exterior MA094-027----.02 E exterior MA094-027----.03 S exterior MA094-027----.04 W exterior MA094-027----.05 N interior MA094-027----.06 E interior MA094-027----.07 S interior MA094-027----.08 W interior MA094-027----.09 Oblique view from the NW; trigometry station to foreground. MA094-027----.10 N (top) and W (bottom) exterior drawings MA094-027----.11 S (top) and E (bottom) exterior drawings MA094-027----.12 N (top) and W (bottom) interior drawings MA094-027----.13 S (top) and E (bottom) interior drawings MA094-027----.14 Plan of site MA094-027----.15 W exterior drawing MA094-027----.16 View of lime kiln looking NNW

Architectural heritage

• Inishturk Signal Tower, signal tower, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of freestanding single-bay two-stage signal tower, built 1805-6, on a square plan. Now in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds on an elevated site.

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 Mountain Common, 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 Mountain Common.

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 Mountain Common with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Mountain Common · Coimín an tSléibhe

Area

1,218,539 m² (121.85 ha, 301.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgeever, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Clare Island, the unit of the census

Census 2022

194 people lived in 71 households in the Clare Island electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 26% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheer, Bellavaum, Craggy, Garranty

Placenames

Mountain Common 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.