Cahercloggaun

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahercloggaun, from 125 m² to 271,839 m² (27.18 ha, 67.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Cahercloggaun 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cahercloggaun in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Cahercloggaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL004-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the slightly elevated SE-facing slopes of a steep boggy ridge surrounded by boggy grazing with good views from NE to S and with coniferous plantations to the NE, SW and W which limit visibility. Hachured on the 1915 OS 6-inch map. A poorly preserved roughly circular area (est. max. dims. c. 29m E-W; c. 28m N-S) defined by an inner bank which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.8-1.2m; max. H 1.5m NW-N) and a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.2-0.4m) visible as a drain from S to W. The fosse is defined by an enclosing bank at ENE and ESE (Wth 2.2-2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m) which is reduced to a scarp from NNE to ENE (H 0.6-0.7m). A gap in the bank (Wth 3.5m) where it is best preserved at ENE and ESE may be an original entrance. A second fosse is indicated by rushes growing outside of the bank from NNE to ESE and a broad area in the ENE and from E to SE may be a third enclosing bank although much reduced. The interior of the site (int. dims. 22m N-S; 22m E-W) is sunken (D 0.2-0.4m) and waterlogged and slopes to the NE and E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 30 November 2022

• CL004-077001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in good pasture overlooked by higher ground to NW and N with commanding views in other directions. Within a large field system (CL008-053001-). Hachured on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and named ‘Cahercloggaun’ on the 1915 edition. The remains of a tower house (CL004-077002-) lie in the SE quadrant. Described in the OS Letters (1839) as an ancient caher which gave name to the castle and the townland (Comber 1997, 70). The cashel is listed by Fitzpatrick (2009, 302) as one of three ‘cathairs’ associated with late medieval tower houses. A subcircular cashel (int. dims. 33m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a roughly coursed drystone wall (Wth 3.2-3.5m; int. H 1.1-1.5; ext. H 2.5-3.1m) composed of regular blocks which form a uniform wall-face. The inner wall-face is constructed from small regular blocks and is best preserved from S to W (max. H 1.5m). The outer wall-face is built on a plinth (H 0.5m) from N to NE and comprises large regular blocks with base-batter at N (H 2.8m) and W (H 3.1m). Cunningham (1980, 47) noted that the walls in the SW ‘are massive, with huge regular blocks, creating upright joints a few feet apart’. The wall is lowest at E (H 0.8m) and missing at SE where the tower house was built. Several low interconnecting banks cross the interior. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 13 June 2022

• CL004-077002 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In the SE quadrant of a cashel (CL016-077001-) and within a large field system (CL008-053001-). The cashel (CL016-077001-) is described by Westropp (1901, 13) as ‘an ancient residence of the O'Loughlins, who, probably in the fifteenth century, built a peel tower in its garth preserving the ring-wall as a bawn’. Westropp (ibid.) also notes that the tower house ‘inhabitants seem to have been in constant trouble with the Government’ and several pardons are recorded. The tower house gateway faced SE and was ‘demolished long before 1878, and, indeed, probably before 1839’ and to the S of the gateway ‘heaps of grass-grown masonry, with traces of an ambrey and steps, mark the site of the castle’ (Westropp 1901, 14). According to Cunningham (1980, 47) all that remained of the castle was a ‘narrow lintelled porch still visible in the mound of rubble’. The name Cahercloggaun is translated by Ua Cróinín and Breen (1997, 47) as ‘Cahair a’ chlochain-The Fort of the Stone House’. Very little of the tower house remains except for a mound of stone (9m NE-SW; 7.5m NW-SE) which extends outside the cashel wall with a hollow in the centre which contains mortared masonry and a lintled doorway leading to the base of a stairway. The stairway survives as ten steps which lead towards the cashel wall in the SE and near the base, on either side of the stairs, two narrow windows survive but have been blocked up by rubble (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997, 47). The tower house has been listed by Fitzpatrick (2009, 302) as one of three late medieval tower houses found in association with a cathair site. The following items have been uploaded: CL004-077002-_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. CL004-077002-_01.jpg View of tower house site from N. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 13 June 2022

• CL005-276 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in an area of scrub within a large field system (CL008-053001-). A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 27m) defined by a stone wall visible on Google Earth (imagery date 2 April 2005) and on Digital Globe (2011-2013). The townland boundary with Cragreagh runs along the perimeter from NW to E. Cahermoyle (CL004-078----) lies c. 145m to the W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney  Date of upload: 10 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cahercloggaun, 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 high, 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 Cahercloggaun.

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.

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

Name

Cahercloggaun

Area

965,605 m² (96.56 ha, 238.61 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Lisdoonvarna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,268 people lived in 302 households in the Lisdoonvarna electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhenna, Blakesmountain, Cragreagh, Killeany

Placenames

Cahercloggaun 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.