Clarefield
Clarefield is a townland in the civil parish of Moyarta, barony of Moyarta, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Gort an Chláraigh.
- Area
- 177.2 ha
- 438 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 27,944 m² (2.79 ha, 6.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clarefield, from 94 m² to 234,355 m² (23.44 ha, 57.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Clarefield 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
18 Apr 2024Conditional
to build a cubicle shed with slatted tanks and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 24125
18 Apr 2024Conditional
of uncovered slatted tanks and a shed with milking parlour, collecting yard and slatted tanks and associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 24126
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulnasherry Bay 000065
Recorded monuments
- CL066-024 Barrow - mound barrow
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 Clarefield.
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 Clarefield, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clarefield.
- 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 Clarefield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Clarefield · Gort an Chláraigh
- Area
- 1,772,230 m² (177.22 ha, 437.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyarta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyarta
- Electoral division
- St. Martin's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 95 people lived in 40 households in the St. Martin's electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cammoge, Kilnagalliagh, Newtown East, Rahaniska, Shanganagh
- Placenames
- Clarefield 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.