Land parcel 5085679

Area

3,524 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)

Buildings

No building touches it.

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

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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: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 1 recorded monument.

• OF029-026 Weir - fish
  Description

  A large fish trap which which spans the River Shannon from Clonahenoge in County Offaly to Meelick in County Galway (GA109-062----). The monument consists of a series of fish traps which form a linear barrier crossing the River Shannon which are indicated as eel weirs on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map. The Franciscan Friary of Meelick (GA108-124001-) and an earthwork (GA108-126) which may be the remains of an Anglo-Norman earth and timber castle are located c. 190m to the NW of the centre of the weirs. The fish-trap on the Offaly side of the river Shannon consists of a curvilinear dry stone wall or spread of stone (L 37m; Wth 1.7m; H above river bed 0.7m) which runs off the SE bank of the River on the Offaly side at Clonahenoge and runs NW at an angle into the river where it forms a barrier with a second section of dry stone wall. There is a gap (Wth c. 2m) between these two sections of wall into which the basket or net to catch fish were inserted. To the N of this opening there is second stretch of wall which forms a second fish trap in the centre of the river and there appears to be several more fish traps which span the river in a linear fashion at this point. These fish traps which form a linear set of barriers crossing the river Shannon from Clonahenoge to Meelick in Co. Galway are indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS six inch maps and are also shown on the 1809 William Larkin map of County Offaly. Upstream of these fish weirs there appear to be several linear spreads of stone running from E-W which appear to form channels directing the fish into the openings of the fish traps. To the S of the wall of the fish trap nearest the E bank of the River adjacent to the townland of Clonahenoge there apears to be an enclosed pond or fish garth defined by a drystone wall or spread of stones which forms a large pool or pond into which the fish may have been stored after they were caught. This pond is enclosed by a spread of stone which runs off the curvilinear wall of the fish pond and onto the island indicated as Weir Island on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. Beneath and amongst the stones of the fish weir are the remains of freshwater shellfish which form clusters of shells deposited beneath and amongst the stones of this trap. Further upstream on the Galway side of the River Shannon there are the remains of smaller single V-shaped stone fish traps. The fish traps located at Incherky c. 840m upstream to the NE which are indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map were removed by the Shannon drainage scheme in the mid 19th century. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 14 July 2010

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. Parts of the land are water.

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.