Clownstown

Area

214,976 m² (21.5 ha, 53.12 acres)

Buildings

5 buildings touch it, 1,182 m² on the ground

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

Clownstown

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 2 recorded monuments.

• WM026-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture with good views in all directions. Bivallate monument described in 1971 as an oval-shaped area (dims. 36m WNW-ESE; 33.60m NNE-SSW) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved where it is steep from SW-W-N-NNE and is reduced to a scarp and which is gapped from NNE-E-S-SW. A wide fosse is visible from SSW-W-N-E. The outer bank is visible from WSW-W-N-N. A portion of modern fence extends outside the scarp and along the outer side of the fosse from N-NE-E and may have been fashioned out of the outer bank of the monument. The original entrance is not visible. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope with an uneven surface probably due to underlying rock. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

• WM026-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle ESE-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture. Trivallate monument described in 1971 as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 32.5m) enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, an intervening bank, an outer fosse and an outer bank. The inner bank is best preserved where it is high and steep from NE-E-S and is practically reduced to a scarp from S-W-N-NE. The intervening fosse is wide and deep and the intervening earthen bank is substantial. This bank has a modern gap at WNW and another at NNE. There is a wide outer fosse visible from SE-S-W-NNW which has part of a modern field bank along the outer edge from WNW-W-S-SSE. The remains of an outer earthen bank are slight and are visible from WNW-NNW and from SE-SSE. This outermost bank appears to have been modified from SE-SSE where it swings in to meet the middle bank at ESE and where it crosses the entrance gap. This wide entrance gap (Wth at top 5.5m; basal Wth 1.6m) is located in the inner bank and there is a corresponding gap (Wth at top 10m; basal Wth 4.5m) in the intervening bank. There are also vague suggestions of a causeway (overall Wth 8.2m; Wth at top 3m; H 0.2m) across the intervening fosse at this point. The interior has a general ESE-facing slope. A townland boundary encloses the monument from SE-S-W. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 02 October 2019

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. 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).

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