Gortaclob

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortaclob, from 329 m² to 443,731 m² (44.37 ha, 109.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Gortaclob 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.

• 21 Jun 2024Conditional

  for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system & polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24200

• 28 Apr 2023N/a

  for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23250

• 26 Sept 2022N/a

  to erect a 30 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure together with antennae dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, all enclosed in security fencing and to extend an existing access track.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22865

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  of the development which will consist of a) retention of extension as constructed and b) retention of location of site entrance together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 22371

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing garage and replace with new garage, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20209

• 18 Mar 2020N/a

  to demolish existing garage and replace with new garage, including site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20193

• 19 Jun 2017Conditional

  for development which consists of the RETENTION of first floor double doors, raised timber decking and chimney together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 17473

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 Gortaclob.

Recorded monuments

• CL008-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the top of a low rise in boggy undulating pastureland, with wide views except to the S where there is higher ground. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). This subcircular rath (20.5m N-S; 20m E-W) is enclosed by a round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.2m at base; Wth 0.8-1m at top; int. H 0.2-0.45m; ext. H 0.4-0.75m). A dip in the bank (Wth 2.2m) at E probably marks the entrance. The following image has been uploaded: CL008-031----_01.jpg View from W Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 September 2022

• CL008-078 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  At the top of a prominent hillock with wide views, in pastureland. Hachured and named 'Knockaunacroghera' on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Marked on Robinson's (1977) map, with the label 'Cnocán an Chrochaire – Armada men hanged 1588'. Westropp (1900, 286) recounts a tradition that this is a '"Spaniards' grave," where a number of the dead from the Armada were buried.' This grass-covered barrow comprises a subcircular earthen platform (22.4m E-W; 19.7m N-S), its perimeter defined by a low scarp. In the centre of the platform is a flat-topped circular mound (H 1.1-1.4m; base diam. 11.4-12.2m; top diam. 5.1-5.2m). The following image has been uploaded: CL008-078----_01.jpg View from SE Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 29 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortaclob, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Gortaclob.

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 Gortaclob with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Gortaclob

Area

708,588 m² (70.86 ha, 175.1 acres)

Civil parish

Killilagh, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Lurraga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

296 people lived in 98 households in the Lurraga electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glasha Beg, Glasha More, Knockacarn, Knockaguilla, Knocknaranhy, Toornahooan

Placenames

Gortaclob 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.