Teerleheen
Teerleheen is a townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Tír Léithín.
Parcel 5222756
- Area
- 3,681 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 213 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
- Teerleheen
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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 76.3 ha
- 188 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 5,816 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Teerleheen, from 154 m² to 241,384 m² (24.14 ha, 59.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Teerleheen 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
10 Dec 2024Conditional
for development which will consist of: 1. Site access 2. Construction of a dwelling house. 3. Effluent treatment system. 4. All associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460624
15 Feb 2022Conditional
of a single storey extension constructed to the side of existing dwelling house, and of a detached garage constructed to rear of the dwelling, all with associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 22127
22 Jan 2019Conditional
for the construction of 2 No. forest entrances along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1932
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Teerleheen.
Recorded monuments
- CL024-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle rise in hilly fertile pasture. Hachured as a ringfort on the 1840 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Teerleheen Fort’ on the 1917 edition. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A school was built on the site of the ringfort in 1941 and there is no trace of the site at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 November 2025
- CL024-002 Children's burial ground
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
- Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, date 1846, with four-bay side elevation, gabled porch to front and lean-to sacristy to side. Pitched slate roof with rendered bellcote, pinnacles, cut-stone gable copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and clay ridge cresting. Rendered walls with render quoins, hood mouldings and inset plaque. Lancet windows with timber Y-tracery and coloured glass. Timber doors. Retaining interior features, including exposed timber hammer beam roof and reredos.
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 Teerleheen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Teerleheen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Teerleheen · Tír Léithín
- Area
- 762,804 m² (76.28 ha, 188.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Clooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 245 people lived in 95 households in the Clooney electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmore, Clooney South, Cullenagh, Knocknagraigue West, Russa
- Placenames
- Teerleheen 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.