Tinacarra

Area

85,288 m² (8.53 ha, 21.08 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

Tinacarra

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

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

• RO005-015 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated at the W end of a low E-W rise, c. 200m N of what was the E end of Lower Lough Gara which is now reclaimed. Rectangular chamber (int. dims.2.2m NW-SE; 1.95m NE-SW) facing NE defined by two sidestones and a backstone with two portal stones (H 1.75m; 2.2m) and the septal stone (H 1.9m). The roofstone (dims. 4m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; T c. 0.7m) is in situ, and a slight grass-covered cairn (dims. c. 7m NW-SE; c. 6m NE-SW) surrounds the stones. Standing stone (RO005-016----) is c. 100m to the S. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 32,33) It has been known and described from the early 19th century (Weld 1832, 278; D'Alton 1845, 81-2; Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 195-7; Clarke 1899, Ó Nualláin 1983, 100) and was excavated and conserved in 1954 (Topp 1962) when cremated human remains, a polished stone axe, two Bann flakes and a chert core were recovered (Herity 1964, 130). See the attached view from the E Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

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 20 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1206 (ZIP).

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.