Dabrian

Area

290,178 m² (29.02 ha, 71.7 acres)

Buildings

6 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,187 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

Dabrian

Planning applications on this parcel

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  for the installation of 6 no. shepherd's Huts for the purpose of overnight accommodation, install a wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and make alterations to the existing site entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22835

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 around it

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.

• CL017-036 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a wooded knoll, with land rising c. 100m to the N and falling steeply from E-S. Indicated and named ‘Mullagh Fort’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This well-preserved but overgrown subcircular cashel (c. 42.5m N-S; 40m E-W) is defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.4-2m; int. H 2.6m; ext. H 2-2.5m) and associated interior wall rubble (combined Wth 6.3m). The well-preserved outer wall-face has a batter and is built of large, well-set stones (max. L 0.9m; H 0.4m), the largest at the base. The inner wall-face is poorly preserved from S-W-N but a terrace (max. Wth 1.3m; H 0.8-1.2m over wall collapse) is visible on the inner wall face from S-W-NNE, and probably originally extended for the full wall circuit. Westropp (1913, 253) mentioned recesses (‘perhaps for ladders’) in the inner wall-face at N (L c. 2.74m; D c. 0.25m) and NW (L c. 2.9m; D c. 0.98m – NOTE these depth measurements are reversed on his plan (ibid., 255, Fig. 10). These recesses were not identified during an inspection in 1999. Similarly, whilst Westropp (1896, 367) had noted that ‘two defaced sets of steps lead up the terrace and wall at the N’, in 1999 only a rough gap (Wth 0.8m) in the terrace at NNE was visible, which may have marked the position of former steps. There is an entrance at ESE, the lowest part of the cashel. Westropp (ibid.) noted a ‘rock-cut tank’ or possible souterrain (CL017-036002-) in the SSW sector of the interior. See attached images: • CL017-036001-_01 Aerial view from W (Photo. Markus Casey, 1999) • CL017-036001-_02 Snip of Westropp’s plan of the monument (1913, 255, Fig. 10) • CL017-036001-_03 Snip of Westropp’s photo of terraced inner wall face (1913, 252, Fig. 8) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• CL017-036002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated in the SSW sector of a cashel (CL017-036----) and described by Westropp (1896, 367; 1913, 253) as ‘a well-defined rock cutting, a tank, or, more probably, a souterrain’. Shown on his plan (1913, 255, Fig. 10) as orientated NNE-SSW (est. L c. 4.5m). See attached image: CL017-036002- Snip of Westropp’s plan of ‘Caher-Mhullach’ cashel (CL017-036----) showing the possible souterrain annotated ‘Rock cutting’ (Westropp 1913, 255, Fig. 10). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• CL017-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing slope in pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Named ‘Lios Bhetty’ on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This well-preserved, hazel-covered subcircular rath (int. dims. 31.2m N-S; 28.2m E-W; ext. dims. 51.6m N-S; 45m E-W) is defined by an inner bank, an outer bank and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (av. Wth 4.5-5m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) is lower (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) from N-E-SE and there is a stone spread on it from ENE-ESE. From ESE-SE there are traces of inner facing-stones on the bank. The generally round-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 1.2-2.2m) is deeper (D 1.2m below top of outer bank) along the W-half of its circuit, and much shallower (D 0.2-0.5m) around the E-half, where its outer edge is lined with field stones. Stones have also been dumped into the fosse on the W. The outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.6m) is traceable only along the N with its probable circuit overlain by a later field wall (Wth 0.4m; max. H 0.5m) elsewhere. The rath entrance (Wth 3.6m) is at ESE, and is lined by rough and probably later drystone walls (Wth 1m; H 0.4m) of quite large boulders, and field stones of a similar size are dumped in the fosse to the S of the entrance. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

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 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 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.