Castlequarter

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 474 m² to 196,887 m² (19.69 ha, 48.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community (Education)
  Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  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, 2188

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  to build a dwelling house, install a waste treatment unit and all associated site and ancillary works, including a new entrance onto the public road

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17779

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: Inagh River Estuary SAC 000036
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inagh River Estuary 000036

Recorded monuments

• CL015-097 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rough pasture overlooking the W-flowing Inagh River c. 130m to the S. Hachured on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (diam. c. 26m) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; ext. H 1-1.4m) that has been reduced to a gentle scarp at N (H 0.3m) and levelled along the S and E. A slight curving depression (Wth 2-3m) around the W of the monument suggests the presence of a fosse. The interior is covered in ferns.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-100 Mound
  Description

  At the NE end of a short NE-SW ridge (on the 100’ contour) in pasture, c. 220m W of a small SW-flowing stream. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular earthen platform (19.95m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a steep scarp (H 1.4-2.1m) surrounded by a berm (Wth 5m), with a second, outer scarp (H 2m) from W-N-E. The interior is covered in vegetation with mature trees around the perimeter.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-101 Castle - tower house
  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: 5 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Ennistimon House, house, 1750–1770 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay two-storey over basement house with central pedimented breakfront bay, built c.1760, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Now in use as hotel. Pitched slate roof with rendered gable chimneystacks and cut-stone copings. Exposed rubble stone walls with moulded impost moulding to entrance door and moulded cornicing to pediment. Replacement timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door having plain fanlight and flanking by sidelights. Lunette with fixed window to pediment. Retaining significant interior features including panelled window reveals, extensive ceiling plasterwork, centrepieces, cornices, lugged architraves, panelled shutter and staircase. Flight of cut stone steps leading to entrance.

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 Castlequarter.

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

Name

Castlequarter

Area

724,498 m² (72.45 ha, 179.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmanaheen, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Ennistimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ennistimon electoral division: 2,514 people in 934 households; 63% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnacullia North, Ennistimon, Glebe, Knockbrack, Lissatunna, Sroohil

Placenames

Castlequarter 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.