Aughrim
Townland in the civil parish of Tomgraney, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Eachroim
- Area
- 220.1 ha
- 544 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 29,780 m² (2.98 ha, 7.36 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughrim, from 40 m² to 235,966 m² (23.6 ha, 58.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Aughrim 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
7 Aug 2026N/a
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660509
22 Jul 2026N/a
for a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660477
26 Feb 2026Refused
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660107
5 Dec 2025Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, garage, entrance, install a septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 25378
17 Feb 2021Conditional
for demolition/refurbishment of selected existing farm buildings for storage purposes, the installation of a new well, revision of existing farmyard and farm access arrangements along with any associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21129
5 Sept 2019Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, garage, entrance, install a septic tank and percolation area and carry out associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19699
1 Jul 2019N/a
to erect a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance, install a septic tank and percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19525
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
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- CL028-012 Enclosure
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 Aughrim.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Aughrim.
- 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 Aughrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Aughrim · Eachroim
- Area
- 2,201,016 m² (220.1 ha, 543.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomgraney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Cloonusker, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloonusker electoral division: 279 people in 94 households; 84% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycorban, Capparoe, Fossa Beg, Tobernagat
- Placenames
- Aughrim 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.