Castletown
Townland in the civil parish of Doora, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 59.7 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 10,882 m² (1.09 ha, 2.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castletown, from 84 m² to 123,948 m² (12.39 ha, 30.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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
No zone of a development plan covers Castletown 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
28 Mar 2022Conditional
to demolish existing derelict dwelling house, construct new dwelling house, treatment system and carry out ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22276
25 Mar 2022Conditional
(Reference No. P21/886) to Clare County Council for the construction of a dwelling house, treatment system, stables, bored well, create new entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works and for full planning PERMISSION for Stables, Hay Store and Dungstead
Permission consequent · Clare County Council, 22262
23 Aug 2021Conditional
to construct dwelling house, treatment system, stables, bored well, create new entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21886
1 Jun 2021Conditional
of dwelling house as constructed, de-commission and close off existing septic tank, construct new advanced treatment system, bore new well and carry out ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21546
25 Jan 2021Conditional
to extend the existing Astro Turf playing pitches to include for an additional 40m x 25m Astro Turf pitch, metal posts and fencing to the perimeter of the new playing pitch, two additional lighting poles along with associated lights and all ancillary site works both above and below ground
Permission · Clare County Council, 2141
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 Castletown.
Recorded monuments
- CL034-059001 Church
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.
- CL034-059002 Graveyard
Description
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- CL034-059003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
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- CL034-062 Enclosure
Description
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- CL034-063 Castle - tower house
Description
Twigge states the castle was built by Sean and his son Donnchad Mac Conmara of Magh na Neamhan. The 1570 list refers to it as 'Ballymaslen' and the occupier at that time as William Neylon while in 1574 it is called Castletown Nevenanagh. The MacNamara`s regained control of the castle sometime after 1600 but John Og MacNamara lost it after the 1641 Rebellion when it was granted to Sir Oliver Bourke and Gibbon Fitzmaurice Fitzgibbon, both transplanters. In 1661 Dr. John Neylon was the tennent, and around 1712 the castle was leased back to James MacNamara and this family continued to live here until about 1740. Situated on a rocky hillock overlooking Castletown Lough, c. 100m to the E. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 7m E-W; 6m N-S) defined by stone spreads at N (L 4m; Wth 4m; H 1m) and S (L 7m; Wth 2m; H 0.4m). Part of the W wall (L 6m N-S; H 3m; T 1.6m) with a window (Wth 0.85m; H 1.03m) in a splayed embrasure survives. The remains are surrounded by a cairn (diam. 30m N-S; 28m E-W; H 2.5m to 4m at E), and stone from the castle was re-used in the now deserted farmstead just to the W (O Murchadha 1995). 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: 11 December 2014
- CL034-064 Ritual site - holy well
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 Castletown.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_638 (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 Castletown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Castletown · Baile an Chaisleáin
- Area
- 596,729 m² (59.67 ha, 147.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Doora, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doora electoral division: 2,147 people in 715 households; 88% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghboy, Cloonawee, Creggaun, Gorteen, Knockhogan
- Placenames
- Castletown 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.