Castlequarter Kilkeedy

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter Kilkeedy, from 884 m² to 108,793 m² (10.88 ha, 26.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2Cluster (General)
  Castlequarter Kilkeedy Cluster, Clare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 14 Oct 2025Conditional

  of the site entrance and internal parking area along with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560627

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of construction of an extension and modifications to existing dwelling house with all associated works, using existing connections to wastewater system, bored well, and existing entrance from public road

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21969

• 23 Jun 2021N/a

  - the development consists of the construction of a slatted cubicle, milking parlour and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21654

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

• CL011-021001 Bawn
  Description

  On a small NE-SW oriented ridge of exposed limestone which slopes to the N into a small turlough. A possible bawn (24m E-W; min. 17m N-S) located at Kilkeedy Castle tower house (CL011-021002-). It is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.05m; H c. 0.5m; L 12.7m) 8m W of the tower house, by a wall footing just S of a rubble mound to the S of the tower house and at E by a high step (H 0.8m) in the bedrock outcrop that forms a straight edge parallel with the E wall of the tower house (5m away). The centre of the bedrock step forming the E side is indented (Wth 1.6m; D 0.7m) which could be interpreted as an entrance. Outside the E wall is a N-S running shelf (Wth 4m) which may have been a road leading to the tower. A modern entrance (Wth 3.5m) at the SE corner is accessed means of a wide ramp approaching from the SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 January 2023

• CL011-021002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On the highest point of a small NE-SW oriented ridge of exposed limestone which slopes to the N into a small turlough. Indicated and named ‘Kilkeedy Castle (in ruins)’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Owned by Mahon O’Brien in 1574, this castle was taken by the English along with his other lands after O’Brien’s failed rebellion and death in 1586 (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997). The castle was then in ruins but was leased to an Englishman, Thomas Cheyny, and presumably was repaired at this time. By 1636 Kilkeedy Castle was again in O’Brien hands (ibid.). The last reference to the castle is in 1641, when Protestant English settlers accused the O’Briens of Kilkeedy of despoiling them. It is possible that the castle was destroyed under the Cromwellian Commissioners in 1654 (ibid.). The OS Letters of 1839 noted that the local name for this castle was Caisleán Mael (‘Bald Castle’) (Comber 1997, 40). Only the N wall (L 11.1m) of this three-storey tower house survives to its full height (c 15m), flanked by adjacent parts of the E (L 2.65m) and W (L 3.25m) walls. The tower house is built of coursed limestone, fine stressed quoinstones (robbed at base of NW corner) and a base batter (H 3.3m) on a narrow plinth (0.2m). There is an outlet (Wth 0.84m; H 0.57m; D 1.32m; outer skin of chute: T 0.63m) for a garderobe chute on the N wall exterior, 4.36m from the NE corner. The mostly destroyed entrance is in the E wall, where the N jamb base can be traced. The entrance leads into a lobby with a porter’s lodge/guardroom (int. dims. 2.02m E-W; 1.2m N-S) to the N. The guardroom entrance is destroyed (H 1.9m). There are five nib-holes in the N wall and a cupboard in the W wall. The ceiling is a barrel vault with wicker centring. From the lobby a passage probably led S to spiral stairs at the SE corner of the tower house; several steps are visible protruding from the upper levels of the stairs. A broken doorway (Wth 1.3m) with a flat arch leads into the ground floor hall (int. dims. 6.65m E-W; 3.88m N-S) which has an E-W barrel vault with wicker centring. There is a pointed embrasure (Wth 1.4m; D 1.2m; H 2.4m) in the N wall which has a rectangular window (H 0.95m) with a hanging-eye and spudstone. The outer skin of the wall is 0.58m thick. There is a small room over the guardroom, on a mezzanine. This rooms has a rectangular light in the N wall, the remaining half of an ogee-headed window in the E wall and a cupboard in the W wall. There are two beam-holes (Wth and H 0.2m) in the E and W walls to support its ceiling. The first floor survives over the ground floor vault. The N half of a window embrasure is visible in the W wall, as well as a cupboard in the NW corner and a flat-arched embrasure with wicker centring in the N wall. This embrasure has a cupboard in the W ingoing and a single ogee-headed window. A destroyed doorway leads to a chamber in the NE corner, which has rectangular lights in the N and E walls and a cupboard in the W wall. This chamber has three beam-holes in its E and W walls for the ceiling. The N half of an ogee-headed window and embrasure survive on the W wall, while there is a fine fireplace in the N wall. Just to the W of this is a small rectangular light, but to the E of the fireplace the wall projects S into the chamber, supported on pyramidal corbels (one on N wall, two on E wall). This projection allows for an L-shaped room in the NE corner of this floor, entered by a pointed doorway at the S beside the stairs. At the W end of this room is a garderobe. The N wall has two lights, the W one rectangular and the E with an ogee head and hollow spandrels. There is a third rectangular light in the E wall. A line of corbels at the top of the second floor would have supported a parapet (without the typical string course). Two prominent corbels over the main entrance probably upheld a machicolation. There is a grass-covered cairn (diam. 8m N-S; H 1.8m) to the S of the ground floor. Walls to the W and S may represent a bawn (CL011-021001-) or they may just be later boundary walls. The following items have been uploaded: CL011-021002-_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. CL011-021002-_01.jpg View of tower house from N CL011-021002-_02.jpg View from NE CL011-021002-_03.jpg View from SE CL011-021001-_04.jpg View from SW Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 January 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Castlequarter Kilkeedy, 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 the townland of Castlequarter Kilkeedy.

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

Name

Castlequarter Kilkeedy

Area

504,842 m² (50.48 ha, 124.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Boston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

358 people lived in 141 households in the Boston electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim, Ballinlisheen, Cross, Culleen, Poulmacrih, Poulroe, Rinecaha

Placenames

Castlequarter Kilkeedy 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.