Castlequarter
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfintinan, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Ceathrú an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 85.4 ha
- 211 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 3,267 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlequarter, from 11 m² to 108,335 m² (10.83 ha, 26.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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)
Castlequarter Cluster, Clare · 30 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Cluster (General)
Ballintlea South Cluster, Clare · 3 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
30 Jun 2025Conditional
of existing detached out building comprising gym / home office and storage area along with all associated ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560392
15 May 2025Conditional
for 1)agricultural building, comprising of stables, horse walker, internal and external horse arena and hay and straw storage area. 2) covered dung stead with seepage underground tank
Permission · Clare County Council, 25158
26 Jun 2024Conditional
for a change of house type from that permitted under planning ref P22/1027 to include the additional construction of a detached garage adjacent to the house. Works to include upgrading and extending the existing access road, providing a proprietary waste water treatment system & soil polishing filter and connecting to all ancillary site works already approved by Planning ref P22/1027
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460293
20 Mar 2024Conditional
for the construction of a new single storey standalone structure to the rear of the existing dwelling to contain a lap swimming pool & sauna and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460119
1 Mar 2024Conditional
for the Conversion of the Attic to comprise of Landing, 2 Bedrooms with En-Suite‘s and Walk-in-wardrobe with 10 existing roof windows to rear. Retention permission for a Corner window, composite decking and the omissions of a minor ‘A’ roof to front of dwelling. Retention permission for garage as constructed, PERMISSION to Install two roof windows to rear roof of existing dwelling including ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460091
11 Nov 2022Conditional
to a) Construct a dwelling house b) Upgrade and extend existing access road c) Provide a proprietary waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter d) Connect to all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221027
7 Sept 2022Conditional
of the changes to the existing dwelling house and the upgraded sewerage treatment system and for PERMISSION to revise the existing boundaries and all other associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Clare County Council, 22799
16 May 2019Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and attached garage, with effluent treatment system, accessed by means of an existing shared driveway from the public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19384
11 Sept 2018Conditional
to RETAIN the following: a) a garage to the rear of dwelling, b) an extension to the south east side of dwelling house, c) Replacement of window with a door to an extension facing south East as granted under P00-670, d) Change to the roof type and window design to the rear of the dwelling on extension granted under P00-670, f) Change to the roof pitch and window design of the extension to the front of dwelling as granted under P00-670, g) A door to the side of the dwelling facing north west
Retention · Clare County Council, 18720
7 Sept 2017Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, accessed by means of an existing shared driveway from the public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17679
1 Aug 2017Conditional
for an entrance, split level dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17589
29 Jun 2017Conditional
for modification and refurbishment of the existing dwelling which include the removal of existing extensions, construction of a new extension over the existing garage, rear extension and side extension to the existing dwelling, alterations to the existing roof and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17514
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 Castlequarter.
Recorded monuments
- CL052-060 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: 18 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Castlequarter.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_843 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Castlequarter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Castlequarter · Ceathrú an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 854,149 m² (85.41 ha, 211.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfintinan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Mountievers, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountievers electoral division: 1,410 people in 471 households; 85% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintlea South, Calluragh, Carrowmore, Cratloe, Cratloekeel, Heathmount
- 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.