Clooncool
Townland in the civil parish of Killuran, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Cluain Cúile
- Area
- 147.8 ha
- 365 acres
- Land parcels
- 125
- registered freehold, median 3,512 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncool, from 20 m² to 157,473 m² (15.75 ha, 38.91 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 41 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C2.1Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community (Community facilities)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Village Growth Area (General)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
O'Callaghans Mills Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 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
20 Jan 2026Conditional
of a shed, entrance gate, and extension to the rear of the dwelling house, and changes to a garage (previously granted planning under P02-492 & P06/87)
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660014
29 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a ground floor extension to the front of the existing dwelling house, with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25137
9 Jun 2021Conditional
for the demolition of side & rear extensions to existing dwelling house including adjacent garage building and the construction of new side and rear extensions, external landscaping, boundary wall treatments & all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21597
26 Nov 2020Conditional
to construct a new independent two storey dwelling with basement including a new effluent treatment system and subsequent demolition of an existing dwelling including all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20896
4 Jul 2019Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 19540
24 Jun 2019Refused
to construct a new independent two storey dwelling with basement including a new effluent treatment system and the subsequent demolition of an existing dwelling including all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19498
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Cloonloum More Bog NHA 002307
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clooncool.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncool.
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 10 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 Clooncool.
- 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 Clooncool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncool · Cluain Cúile
- Area
- 1,477,925 m² (147.79 ha, 365.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killuran, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Killuran, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killuran electoral division: 444 people in 168 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonloum More, Foxandgeese, Kilgory, Knockdoocunna, Liscullaun, Teerovannan
- Placenames
- Clooncool 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.