Cloghaun
Townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare; in Irish An Clochán
- Area
- 133.4 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 58
- registered freehold, median 7,464 m² (0.75 ha, 1.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghaun, from 42 m² to 179,858 m² (17.99 ha, 44.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Cloghaun 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
17 Jul 2026Conditional
of the dwelling house as built on site & PERMISSION to extend the existing dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26194
4 Dec 2025N/a
to renovate and extend the existing derelict house/structure on site for the purposes of a dwelling with new wastewater treatment plant, detached domestic garage/studio, connections to services, new vehicular entrance and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560762
1 Dec 2025N/a
to demolish the existing house on site and replace it with a new single storey house with new wastewater treatment plant, detached domestic spa and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560748
23 Apr 2025Conditional
to extend and refurbish the existing dwelling, demolishing the existing slatted shed to replace it with the new extension, install a wastewater treatment system and all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25123
19 Feb 2025N/a
for (a) Construction of a single storey extension to rear of the existing dwelling house; (b) conversion of the existing stables building to ancillary living accommodation; (c) construction of a conservatory to the converted stables building; (d) elevational changes to the converted stables building; (e) All associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560071
29 Oct 2021N/a
the development will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211139
5 Feb 2018N/a
to build a slatted shed and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1872
7 Dec 2017Conditional
for the building of a new dwelling house, the installation of a waste treatment system, and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17951
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 Cloghaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloghaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghaun.
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 20 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 Cloghaun.
- 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 Cloghaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghaun · An Clochán
- Area
- 1,334,424 m² (133.44 ha, 329.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killilagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Cloghaun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloghaun electoral division: 201 people in 73 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahown, Ballynalackan, Caherbarnagh, Carrownycleary, Kilmoon West, Poulnagun
- Placenames
- Cloghaun 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.