Mount
Mount is a townland in the civil parish of Kilchreest, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Móta.
Parcel 1512311
- Area
- 38,434 m² (3.84 ha, 9.5 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,069 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
- Mount
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 10 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 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 55.7 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 2,126 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Mount, from 84 m² to 219,688 m² (21.97 ha, 54.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Ballycorick Cluster, Clare · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Dec 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560754
11 Mar 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, provide a wastewater treatment system, upgrade of existing entrance, connect to nearby services (electricity and telephone) and to carry out all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2569
15 May 2023Conditional
to RETAIN an existing store to the rear of the public house, planning PERMISSION to convert the public house into a residential unit along with elevational changes, to alter the front elevation of the existing dwelling house and to install a new wastewater treatment facility along with all associated/ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360149
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore 002048
Recorded monuments
- CL050-042 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL050-066 Burnt mound
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.
- CL050-067 House - 18th/19th century
Description
Situated just below the brow of a hill on a NE-facing slope overlooking the Shannon Estuary. An area 96m x 15m investigated as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project yielded evidence of three 19th century buildings, a cellar and various associated yards and gardens corresponding with the structures recorded on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map. (Taylor 2004, 50-51) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 July 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Mount.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Mount, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Mount.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Mount with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Mount · An Móta
- Area
- 557,290 m² (55.73 ha, 137.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilchreest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Kilchreest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 459 people lived in 158 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkilla, Inishaellaun, Inishdea, Knappoge, Lavally, Lavally South, Poulaphuca
- Placenames
- Mount 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.