Castlecrine
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Caisleán Críon
- Area
- 232.8 ha
- 575 acres
- Land parcels
- 112
- registered freehold, median 3,568 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecrine, from 5 m² to 290,582 m² (29.06 ha, 71.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Castlecrine Cluster, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2025Conditional
of the attached garage which is converted for domestic use; PERMISSION to extend the existing dwelling and alter the internal layout and fenestration; PERMISSION to build a new garage and a new ancillary residential unit for the enjoyment of the occupants of the main dwelling and all associated and ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25404
27 Jul 2025Conditional
to construct an agricultural shed and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560462
8 Nov 2024Conditional
to extend and renovate an existing cottage, to demolish existing sheds, to install a new sewerage treatment system, for a new entrance in place of an existing agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24370
30 Jun 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dairy washings tank and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460302
20 May 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460226
30 Jan 2024Conditional
for the following development (a) to convert the existing attached garage to residential accommodation; (b) to construct an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house; (c) to make elevational alterations to the existing house; (d) to sub-divide the dwelling house for the purpose of ancillary living accommodation; and (e) all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460029
23 Jan 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2412
2 Mar 2023Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23125
8 Mar 2022Refused
to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22202
26 Aug 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system and new entrance from public road with all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20582
23 Jun 2020Conditional
to construct a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20413
11 Dec 2019Conditional
for the construction of an extension and alterations to a dwelling house, and the construction of a garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19968
20 Jun 2019Refused
to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19488
1 Mar 2018Conditional
to RETAIN rooms to first floor of dwelling house, namely 2 no. bedrooms and a study and for PERMISSION to construct new windows, 1 on each side elevation of dwelling house
Retention · Clare County Council, 18149
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 Castlecrine.
Recorded monuments
- CL052-029 Children's burial ground
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.
- CL052-030 Ringfort - unclassified
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.
- CL052-032 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: 18 December 2014
- CL052-033 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 Castlecrine.
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
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlecrine.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Castlecrine, Sixmilebridge15 sales
The townland
- Name
- Castlecrine · An Caisleán Críon
- Area
- 2,328,447 m² (232.84 ha, 575.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinaghta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Castlecrine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlecrine electoral division: 495 people in 160 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycullen, Ballynevan, Ballyroe, Castlelake, Coolycasey, Corlea, Fortwilliam, Mountievers, Moygalla
- Placenames
- Castlecrine 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.