Clare
Townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 127.1 ha
- 314 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 7,623 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clare, from 662 m² to 181,034 m² (18.1 ha, 44.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clare 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
23 Mar 2026Conditional
for revised site entrance as previously granted under Planning Reference Number 2560528 to upgrade the existing agricultural entrance with new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660131
16 Oct 2025Conditional
to make the following modifications to a recently permitted development to construct a new single storey dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, install new mechanical wastewater treatment system & percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works (Planning Reg. No. 25/60013) The development will consist of. (1) To reposition dwelling house & domestic garage from that previously approved, (2) For minor changes to dwelling house & domestic garage floor plans & elevations, (3) Any associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560622
6 Oct 2025N/a
to make the following modifications to a recently permitted development to construct a new single storey dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, install new mechanical wastewater treatment system & percolation area, entrance and ancillary site services and development works (Planning Reg. No. 25/60013) The development will consist of (1) To re-orientate the dwelling house plans & domestic garage plans, and make some minor alterations to elevations & floor plan layouts, (2) To make alterations to the site layout including location of dwelling house and domestic garage
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560596
3 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct a dormer dwelling and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, modification of existing domestic entrance to proposed combined entrance and ancillary site services and development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560528
20 Jan 2025Conditional
for a Single Storey Dwelling and a Domestic Garage, Waste Water Treatment System and Percolation Area, Entrance and Ancillary Site Services and Development Works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560013
8 Feb 2023Conditional
for a detached domestic garage and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2335
19 Jun 2017Conditional
for development consisting of renovation and rear extension to a single storey dwelling, upgrade existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17273
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 Clare.
Recorded monuments
- CV038-009 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked 'Fort' on the OS 1836 ed. and 'Site of' on 1876 ed. Depicted as a triangular tree plantation on the OS latest edition Within the tree plantation is a raised circular area (int. diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a low earthen bank identifiable from W-N-E, and a fosse. Original entrance not recognisable. Densely overgrown with vegetation. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clare.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clare.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Clare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Clare
- Area
- 1,271,127 m² (127.11 ha, 314.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosserlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Ballyjamesduff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyjamesduff electoral division: 3,548 people in 1,187 households; 59% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derrylea, Drumscruddan, Garrynogher, Keenagh, Kiffagh, Rassan
- Placenames
- Clare 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.