Cloghera

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghera, from 247 m² to 263,705 m² (26.37 ha, 65.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloghera 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.

• 18 Jun 2026Conditional

  to raise ground levels to accommodate farm roadway gradients granted under previous planning ref No P25/27

  Permission · Clare County Council, 26172

• 4 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a slatted slurry storage tank, farm roadway, changes to existing ground levels and RETENTION of infilled material following waste Licence Ref. No. COR-CE-23-0002-01 with associated infilling

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2527

• 25 Nov 2024N/a

  to contruct a slatted slurry storage tank, farm roadway and changes to existing ground levels with associated infilling

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24393

• 8 Jul 2024N/a

  to construct a slatted slurry storage tank with associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24218

• 25 Jan 2023Conditional

  to fill land with topsoil, subsoil, stone and inorganic construction material to raise the level of the land for agricultural purposes. A Natura Impact Statement is included with the application.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2337

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloghera.

Recorded monuments

• CL053-003 Enclosure
  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

• Catholic Church of Mary the Mother of God, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1843, with three-bay nave, single-bay transepts and sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone bellcote and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with pairs of inset carved stone fonts flanking entrances and inset plaque with hood moulding over entrance door. Pointed arch openings with cut-stone architraves, hood mouldings, replacement windows and timber panelled double leaf doors. Retaining interior features. Wrought-iron gates set in rendered boundary wall.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cloghera, about 1 in 5 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 Cloghera.

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.

No address of the register names Cloghera with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Cloghera · Clochdhoire

Area

1,126,693 m² (112.67 ha, 278.41 acres)

Civil parish

O'Briensbridge, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Cloghera, the unit of the census

Census 2022

586 people lived in 189 households in the Cloghera electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aharinaghbeg, Cloonsheerea, Cloontra East, Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Knockdonagh, Mountrice, Trough

Placenames

Cloghera 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.