Carrahan
Carrahan is a townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Tulla Ra), barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Carrachán.
- Area
- 96.2 ha
- 238 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 34,670 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrahan, from 2,349 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 210,586 m² (21.06 ha, 52.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Carrahan 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
30 Jul 2024Conditional
for the following proposed development: a. to demolish existing single storey rear annex and utility sheds b. alteration and refurbishment of existing dwelling house c. construct both 2 storey and part single storey rear extensions d. construct detached remote home office and gym including utility storage shed e. construct new on-site wastewater treatment system f. adjust existing vehicular site entrances g. including all associated siteworks and services etc
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460352
24 Nov 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and all associated site works, accessed by an existing entrance and private road
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20884
5 Dec 2019Conditional
for the construction of an extension to existing Dwelling House to comprise of Livingroom, utility room, Bedroom with walk in wardrobe also PERMISSION for conversion of existing bedroom to En-suite including ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19956
31 Jan 2019Conditional
( Reference No: P18-804), to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 1948
15 Oct 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18804
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Carrahan.
Recorded monuments
- CL034-033 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.
- CL034-036 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrahan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Carrahan, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Carrahan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Carrahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Carrahan · Carrachán
- Area
- 961,577 m² (96.16 ha, 237.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Clooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 539 people lived in 179 households in the Clooney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyslattery or Newgrove, Ballyvergin, Knockaphreaghaun, Lassana, Maghera, Rylane, Sraheen
- Placenames
- Carrahan 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.