Bearnafunshin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bearnafunshin, from 11 m² to 196,488 m² (19.65 ha, 48.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• O2Cluster (General)
  Bearnafunshin / Ballyogan Cluster, Clare · 14 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560237

• 12 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460634

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  for change of use of an existing dwelling and former B&B for use as a children's respite house, to include a new waste water treatment system and percolation area and ancillary site works and RETENTION permission for the demolition of an existing conservatory.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460323

• 23 Jan 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing garage building, and to construct new garage, part of which will be used as hobby room, with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2413

• 23 May 2023Conditional

  of alterations and extension to dwelling house and access to minor public road

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23298

• 2 Feb 2022Refused

  for 2 single storey dwelling houses with private garages, new entrance and access road, erection of fencing along rail line, installation of water and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2276

• 22 Sept 2021Refused

  for 2 dwelling houses with private garages, new entrance and access road, erection of fencing along rail line, installation of water and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works

  Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 211009

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  for a change of design to house no 2 granted under outline PERMISSION P09-27 and PERMISSION consequent P12-178 (and extended under P16-691), revise site boundaries and relocate the dwelling house and garage along with all associated works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21459

• 21 May 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN living room extension to the front line of dwelling house and a revised vehicular entrance from the public road

  Retention · Clare County Council, 19406

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house including attached garage and carport, with effluent treatment system, entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19302

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inchicronan Lough 000038

Recorded monuments

• CL026-048 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle E-facing heavily overgrown slope with limestone outcrop. Hachured on the 1920 OS 6-inch map. A circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by an overgrown stone spread (at S: Wth 3.5m; max. H 0.35m). The townland boundary with Curraderra lies c. 12m to the W and the M18 motorway is 50m to the SE.   Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-053 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the crest of the N-facing slope of a drumlin. Hachured as a circular area on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular scrub-covered area (int. diam. 29m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by a stone spread (Wth 3.8-5.2m generally to 9.5m at S; int. H 0.1-0.4m generally to 0.6m at S; ext. H 0.3-0.8m) with internal and external stone facing visible, especially at NW and E (original Wth 2-2.5m). The interior is bisected by an E-W field wall and an area of rock outcrop (H 0.8m) is WSW of centre. The perimeter E-S has been truncated by the NE-SW railway line, while the perimeter S-W is also damaged.  Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-055 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the W and SW-facing slope of an irregular ridge in pasture with very limited views. Hachured as a circular enclosure on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 26m NW-SE) defined by an overgrown stone spread (Wth 4.5-6.5m; int. 0.6-1m; ext. H 1-1.2m) with some external facing (H 1.2m) at NW. There is a gap (Wth 1.2m) which is not original at ENE, while an entrance (Wth 2m) at SW may be original. Much of the perimeter is overlain by a drystone field wall. The interior is generally level and there is a small cairn (diam. 4m ; H 0.6m) 10m inside the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-058 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL026-059 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.

• CL026-149 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.

• CL026-158 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.

• CL026-178 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.

• CL026-178001 Burnt mound
  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.

• CL026-179 Burnt mound
  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.

• CL026-180 Excavation - miscellaneous
  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 Bearnafunshin.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bearnafunshin.

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.

No address of the register names Bearnafunshin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Bearnafunshin · Bearna na Fuinseann

Area

1,369,335 m² (136.93 ha, 338.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kilraghtis, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Kilraghtis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilraghtis electoral division: 576 people in 185 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyline, Ballymaconna, Ballyogan, Cappafeean, Cloonagowan, Cragard, Curraderra, Inchicronan Island

Placenames

Bearnafunshin 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.