Cahermacrea

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cahermacrea, from 242 m² to 1,224,187 m² (122.42 ha, 302.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Cahermacrea 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.

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  a) the retention of a new vehicular entrance onto the public road, the infilling and removal of a disused well and b) permission to close up existing vehicular entrance serving lands together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2660204

• 12 Mar 2026N/a

  a) the retention of a new vehicular entrance onto the public road, the infilling and removal of a disused well and b) permission to close up existing vehicular entrance serving lands, together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2660154

• 30 Oct 2024Conditional

  for (a) a side and rear extension (b) a porch to the front of the house, (c) to enlarge the first floor dormer window to the front of the house and (d) a single storey garage to the rear of property,

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24354

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Dromore Woods and Loughs SAC 000032
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Woods And Loughs 000032

Recorded monuments

• CL017-164 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• CL017-165 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report).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. Date of upload: 8 December 2014

• CL017-166 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 Cahermacrea.

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 5 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 Cahermacrea.

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

Name

Cahermacrea · Cathair Mhic Néidhe

Area

1,649,322 m² (164.93 ha, 407.56 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ruan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ruan electoral division: 767 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Addroon, Ballyteige East, Ballyteige West, Cloonnagloghaun, Dromore, Lisheenvicknaheeha, Loughaunnaweelaun

Placenames

Cahermacrea 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.