Inishmore or Deer Island
Inishmore or Deer Island is a townland in the civil parish of Kilchreest, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Inis Mór.
Parcel 3249108
- Area
- 78,490 m² (7.85 ha, 19.4 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 291 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
- Inishmore or Deer Island
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: 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 around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.
- CL050-047 Church
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.
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 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.
- Area
- 187.6 ha
- 463 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 67,379 m² (6.74 ha, 16.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Inishmore or Deer Island, from 13,608 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres) to 920,520 m² (92.05 ha, 227.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 0 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
No zone of a development plan covers Inishmore or Deer Island 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Inishmore or Deer Island 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.
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
- CL050-047 Church
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.
- CL050-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a small plateau at the top of a low rise in pasture towards the centre of Inishmore or Deer Island in the Fergus Estuary. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a low bank visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and OSi MapGenie (2013-2018) orthophotos. Noted by Hugh Carey. Remains of a house of indeterminate date (CL050-076001-) are centrally located within the enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2025
- CL050-076001 House - indeterminate date
Description
Located just SW of centre within a possible ringfort (CL050-076----) on Inishmore or Deer Island in the Fergus Estuary. Grassed-over foundations of a rectangular house (c. 12m E-W; c. 7m N-S) are visible on Digital Globe (2011-2013) and on OSi MapGenie (2013-2018). Noted by Hugh Carey. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2025
- CL050-077 Enclosure
Description
In the NW corner of a field in a fairly level area in pasture at the NE end of Inishmore or Deer Island in the Fergus Estuary and just c. 20m from the shoreline. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 55m) defined by a low grassed-over bank. Visible on Google Earth imagery (3 November 2022). Noted by Hugh Carey. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2025
- CL050-077001 Field system
Description
In a fairly level area in pasture on Inishmore or Deer Island in the Fergus Estuary. A series of disused, low, grassed-over field boundaries forming irregular fields, some with evidence of ridge and furrow cultivation are visible on Google Earth imagery (3 November 2025). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 25 November 2025
- CL050-089 Bullaun stone
Description
On the N shore of Deer Island. Described by O’Sullivan et al. (2010) as follows: ‘A possible bullaun stone was found on the northern shore of Deer Island. It consists of a hemispherical cup hollowed out of a rock. The rock may be broken. Because most of the rocks around are limestone bullaun like rocks can frequently be seen. This one, however had a much smoother ‘cup’, leading us to believe it had been used to grind something, perhaps fishbait’. (O’Sullivan et al. 2010, Appendix 1, 81, Deer Island 10) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 October 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Inishmore or Deer Island.
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 Inishmore or Deer Island, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Inishmore or Deer Island.
- 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 Inishmore or Deer Island with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Inishmore or Deer Island · Inis Mór
- Area
- 1,875,551 m² (187.56 ha, 463.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilchreest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Ballynacally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 231 people lived in 86 households in the Ballynacally electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Inishmore or Deer Island 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.