Ardnacraa
Ardnacraa is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrehy, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 45.8 ha
- 113 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 8,879 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnacraa, from 124 m² to 158,242 m² (15.82 ha, 39.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ardnacraa 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
31 Mar 2025Conditional
for the refurbishment of an existing house, demolition of an existing garage and shed, construction of a two storey garage/utility/bedroom extension and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560159
27 Jun 2023Conditional
to build a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23369
8 Jun 2023N/a
to build a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23331
15 Sept 2022N/a
to build a new dwelling house, install a sewerage treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22823
2 Jun 2022N/a
to build a new dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22490
1 Jul 2020Conditional
a. to demolish an existing substandard dwelling house / bed and breakfast and garage, b. to construct a new dwelling with 1 no. studio guest bedroom for short term letting, c. to remove and reconstruct the existing road boundary and entrance to a new layout d. to decommission the existing septic tank and to construct a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20438
9 Aug 2019Conditional
to modify the design of the extension to cottage as granted under Planning Ref. No. P19-61 to include for the re-orientation and modification of the bedroom wing on the north side of the extension
Permission · Clare County Council, 19644
21 May 2019Conditional
to demolish an existing garage, to refurbish the existing House and Bed and Breakfast with 2 no. guest bedrooms and 2 no. studio guest bedrooms for short term letting, to construct an entrance / store extension to the Existing House, to decommission the existing septic tank and to construct a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19407
4 Feb 2019Conditional
to restore existing cottage, remove existing sheds and construct new addition with proprietary waste treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1961
23 Jul 2018Conditional
permission for development and permission for development, the RETENTION permission for development consists of the constructed two no. animal feed silos and partially constructed slatted unit and associated site works. The permission for development consists of the completion of a partially constructed slatted unit and associated site works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 18600
12 Mar 2018Conditional
for a) to refurbish an existing house and construct a loft floor dormer extension, b) to construct a living / dining / kitchen / car port extension to the rear of the existing house, c) to demolish an existing garage, and d) To decommission an existing septic tank and to construct a new proprietary wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18194
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 Ardnacraa.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardnacraa.
Architectural heritage
- Spa Well, well, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-bay single-storey Gothic Revival well house, built c. 1820. Stone flagged flat roof with cut-stone crenellated parapet and central finial. Dressed stone walls with string course and carved stone plaque. Pointed arch opening with cut-limestone surround and remains of wrought-iron gate.
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 Ardnacraa, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardnacraa.
- 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 Ardnacraa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnacraa
- Area
- 457,765 m² (45.78 ha, 113.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrehy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Ballysteen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 398 people lived in 163 households in the Ballysteen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysteen, Derreen, Slievenageeragh
- Placenames
- Ardnacraa 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.