Ardmaclancy
Ardmaclancy is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Ard Mhic Fhlannchaidh.
- Area
- 79 ha
- 195 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardmaclancy, from 34 m² to 257,574 m² (25.76 ha, 63.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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
- G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Water Bodies (General)
Kilmurry Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Apr 2026Conditional
of the following addition as constructed: rear garage together with all associated site development works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660221
26 Jan 2026Conditional
of (a) a detached domestic garage to the rear of the property, (b) a timber clad shed to the rear of the property (c) conversion of the existing attached garage to habitable accommodation, and (d) a single-storey conservatory extension to the rear of the dwelling, together with all associated site works and services
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660030
15 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system including all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560631
2 Sept 2021Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage and advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21925
22 Jul 2021Conditional
To construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21774
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 Ardmaclancy.
Recorded monuments
- CL043-079 Fulacht fia
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.
- CL043-082 Standing stone
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardmaclancy.
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 Ardmaclancy, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_808 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardmaclancy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ardmaclancy · Ard Mhic Fhlannchaidh
- Area
- 789,708 m² (78.97 ha, 195.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinaghta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Rossroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 718 people lived in 232 households in the Rossroe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysheen Beg, Ballysheen More, Cloonmunnia, Kilmurry, Mountcashel, Rosroe
- Placenames
- Ardmaclancy 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.