Gortnaboul

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gortnaboul, from 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 324,980 m² (32.5 ha, 80.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Gortnaboul 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.

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  to renovate and extend existing dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21296

• 19 Aug 2019Conditional

  for the removal of 26m of grass verge for a roadside entrance for truck access and associated site works to existing forestry lands

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19668

• 7 Jun 2019N/a

  which consists of the removal of 24m of grass verge for the creation of a vehicular access between a public road and a proposed Forest Road at Gortnaboul, Kilshanny, Co. Clare

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19458

• 14 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17965

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 Gortnaboul.

Recorded monuments

• CL015-035 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle rise in undulating marshy pasture with good views. Hachured on 1916 OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A rath comprising a low circular platform (diam. 28m; H 1-1.2m) defined by a gentle scarp (Wth 4-5m) which has been levelled to the S. The interior is level with no visible features. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 3 July 2023

• CL015-036 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating marshy pasture with clear views in all directions, c. 80m W of a N-flowing stream that forms the townland boundary with Cloongarve. Hachured on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A large oval earth and stone mound (35m E-W; 30m N-S; H 2.5m over W and N; H 3.5m elsewhere), with a level, circular summit (diam. 5.5m) defined by a low, broad earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; H 0.1-0.65m). The bank is highest at W (H 0.65m) where it is revetted by a course of horizontal and a course of vertical shale slabs (L 2m) on its internal face. An ESB pole stands at the S foot of the mound. A ringfort (KD015-035----) lies c. 75m to the NW.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 7-10-2025

• CL015-140001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a conifer plantation on damp ground c. 75m N of a small stream. One of three fulachtaí fia identified in 1999 during monitoring of a 10m wayleave to a reservoir in Cahereamore as part of the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme (Hanley 2000). A fulacht fia (designated Site B) (L 12m; Wth 9m; H 0.4m), only the N edge of which was exposed during excavation (7m E-W; 1m N-S; H 0.28m). The excavation uncovered a spread of heat-shattered stone within a charcoal-rich sandy clay. It was overlain by peat and sod and overlay a thin layer of buried sod above a fine clay subsoil. No finds were encountered during the excavation (Hanley 1999, 33-4). Two other fulachtaí fia (CL015-140002- and CL015-140003-) were identified c. 32m to the W, and c. 54m to the W respectively.    Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 29 October 2025

• CL015-140002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a conifer plantation on damp ground c. 75m N of a small stream. One of three fulachtaí fia identified in 1999 during monitoring of a 10m wayleave to a reservoir in Cahereamore as part of the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme (Hanley 2000). A fulacht fia (designated Site A) which continued N beyond the limit of the excavation (Hanley 1999, 22; Hanley 2000, 16). The site comprised a U-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone (L 16m; Wth 7m; D 0.3-0.4m), with an underlying wood-lined trough (L 1.86m; Wth 0.6m; D 0.2-0.35m) and two smaller pits. The trough was lined with small angled stake-holes, interpreted by the excavator as part of a canopy or ‘tent-like’ structure. A series of stake-holes formed a fence line to the W of the trough. A general scatter of stake-holes was also identified. Finds included a thumbnail scraper and unworked flint. Two other fulachtaí fia (CL015-140001- and CL015-140003-) were identified c. 30m to the E, and c. 20m to the W respectively.    Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 29 October 2025

• CL015-140003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a conifer plantation on damp ground c. 75m N of a small stream. One of three fulachtaí fia identified in 1999 during monitoring of a 10m wayleave to a reservoir in Cahereamore as part of the Lisdoonvarna Water Supply Scheme. A fulacht fia (designated Site C) comprising a small thin spread of heat-shattered stone (L 4m; Wth 2.7m; H 0.1m), which continued N beyond the limit of the excavation (Hanley 2000, 16). No finds were encountered during the excavation (Hanley 1999, 37). Two other fulachtaí fia (CL015-140001- and CL015-140002-) were identified c. 20m to the E, and c. 50m to the E respectively.    Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 29 October 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gortnaboul, 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 Gortnaboul.

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

Name

Gortnaboul

Area

1,092,624 m² (109.26 ha, 269.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshanny, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Smithstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

161 people lived in 60 households in the Smithstown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytarsna, Cahereamore, Caherycoosaun, Carrowduff, Cloongarve, Porsoon, Smithstown

Placenames

Gortnaboul 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.