Nooan

Area

208,127 m² (20.81 ha, 51.43 acres)

Buildings

10 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,363 m².

Zoning

No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.

Townland

Nooan

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel 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

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.

• CL017-056 Bawn
  Description

  In pasture on the N bank of the river Fergus at the bottom of a S-facing slope of an E-W ridge on which Killinaboy church (CL017-020----) can be seen c. 400m to NE. Drawn and labelled as ‘De Clare’s house (in ruins)’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, and as ‘Ruin’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. The OS Letters of 1839 (Comber 1997, 17) recorded a tradition (uncorroborated) that this was the home of the Norman lord Richard de Clare before his death in 1318, and was called Cobhail an Chlaraigh Mhuair [‘the great De Clare’s ruins’]. However, MacMahon (1992) and Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) suggest it was the residence of the 17th-century protestant deans of Kilfenora (see also Westropp 1900, 409).    This well-preserved rectangular bawn (int. dims. 30.9m WNW-ESE; 25m NNE-SSW) of probable late-16th/17th-century date is defined by substantial walls of limestone rubble (H c. 3-4m; Wth c. 1.5m) with a base batter (Ua Cróinín and Breen, 1997). The walls survive almost to original height but are mostly covered in ivy, especially on their outer faces. A late-16th/17th-century house (CL017-056002-) appears to be integrated into the NW corner of the bawn. The bawn entrance, to W of centre in the N wall, is pointed-arched with wickerwork centering. On the W side of the entrance, a wall extends S into the bawn interior but disturbance has removed any evidence of a corresponding wall on the E side of the entrance. Just to the E of the entrance, the bawn wall’s inner face steps-in (L 2m). There is a second entrance doorway (Wth 1.05m; H 2.3m), badly damaged but retaining evidence of a lintel, near the W end of the S wall with a bar-slot on its E side, and two walls project N into the bawn interior on the E and and W sides this S doorway: the W wall (Wth 0.75m) may be the remains of a possible chamber in the SW corner of the bawn. The E wall opposite is largely removed but is bonded to the bawn wall.   At the N end of the bawn’s E wall, the inner face steps in (L 0.8m) to accommodate a small chamber within the wall (int. dims. 2.05m N-S; 1.1m E-W), the interior of which is full of debris. The chamber was lit by a narrow loop in a flat-arched, splayed embrasure with wickerwork centering in the E wall. Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) recorded a circular staircase at the N end of the chamber.    At the SE corner of the bawn is a projecting rectangular tower (int. dims. 2.5m N-S; 1.25m E-W; H 2.95m) and a recessed parapet (H 1m). The tower is barrel-vaulted and there are simple lights with dressed stone surrounds in its E wall (Wth 0.55m) and W wall. The SE tower does not seem to have had a doorway and was accessed from within the bawn through a passageway (Wth 2.3m) formed, in part, on its E side by a stepping in of the bawn wall, and on its W side by the E wall (Wth 1.2m) of a rectangular building (int. dim. 5.8m N-S) built against the S wall of the bawn. While the foundations of this building’s N sidewall (Wth 0.6m) can be seen, its W end-wall is not traceable, but the building appears to have extended along most of the bawn’s S wall, on the inner face of which at least three corbels which supported the roof of this structure survive. A mound of material within the footprint of this building has formed a platform abutting the bawn wall. In the SW corner of the bawn is a possible chamber (int. dims. 6.05m E-W; 2.5m N-S), although there is no evidence of a N wall and its E wall (Wth 0.75m) is not bonded to the bawn wall.    A mound of rubble forms a rectangular platform (L 13m N-S) against the inner face of the bawn’s W wall. At its N end, the base of a wall (Wth 0.9m) is visible which may be the S wall of the late-16th/17th-century house (CL017-056002-) in the NW corner of the bawn. Near the opposite, S end of the platform is a gun loop in a squared embrasure.    Externally, a drystone wall runs parallel with the bawn’s W wall at a distance of c. 10m away and joins an overgrown lane (Wth c. 3-4m) running NNE (L c. 170m) and defined on its W side by a drystone wall (H c. 1.2m), which may be contemporaneous with the bawn.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 9-10-2025

• CL017-056002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Situated in the NW corner of a bawn (CL017-056----). Depicted as a small square structure on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map. This poorly preserved rectangular building (int. Wth c. 5.6m E-W; traceable L c. 7.5m N-S) is defined along the W and N by the bawn walls, into which the building appears to have been bonded, but only the bases of the internal E wall (Wth 0.7m) and the S wall (Wth 0.9m) survive. A platform (13m N-S) abutting the S wall, obscures this end of the structure, which may have continued further S. (A partly dotted line on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) indicates a narrow rectangular structure possibly running inside the full length (c. 25m) of the W bawn wall.) The pitch of the N gable is visible rising above the ivy-covered N bawn wall and suggests the house may only have been only been of one storey. There is also a large fireplace in the N wall, with a putlog to its E and a cupboard just to the W (described by Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997) as a loop in a splayed embrasure). In the W wall are two cupboards; one at the N end (Wth at base 0.85m; Wth at top 0.45m: H 1.07m) and a second towards the S end.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 9-10-2025

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

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

At the centre of this parcel, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.

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.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.