Beneden

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Beneden, from 383 m² to 252,126 m² (25.21 ha, 62.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Beneden 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.

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict building and to construct new single storey dwelling house with new waste water proprietary system along with all associated site works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2633

• 10 Nov 2025N/a

  to demolish existing substandard dwelling house and for permission of the construction of a replacement dwelling house with new proprietary waste water treatment system along with all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25348

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a forest access road and entrance with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18822

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  to extend and renovate existing dwelling house with all necessary ancillary services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18376

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Beneden.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Beneden.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Beneden.

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.

Terrain model

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

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 Beneden with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Beneden · Binn an Fheadáin

Area

2,670,426 m² (267.04 ha, 659.88 acres)

Civil parish

Clondagad, and its townlands

Barony

Islands

Electoral division

Clondagad, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clondagad electoral division: 703 people in 228 households; 94% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolynagleragh, Caherea, Dehomad, Knockatunna, Kyleatunna, Lismorris, Toberaniddaun

Placenames

Beneden 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.