Clooncoul
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare; in Irish Cluain Coll
- Area
- 178.5 ha
- 441 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 51,081 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncoul, from 1,152 m² to 344,180 m² (34.42 ha, 85.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Clooncoul 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
24 Apr 2026N/a
a dwelling house and garage with proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660264
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 Clooncoul.
Recorded monuments
- CL015-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
In the NE corner of a flat field in fertile pasture with good views to the N. Hachured and named ‘Parkalassa Fort’ on all editions of the OS 6-inch maps. On inspection in 1998 a depression (diam. 10m; D 1.5m) in the field level was visible along with some scattered stones and it was noted that the NE corner was overgrown. The overgrown portion as visible on Google Earth (imagery date 25 April 2021) and OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 may contain remains of one quadrant. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 November 2025
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncoul.
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 Clooncoul.
- 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 Clooncoul with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncoul · Cluain Coll
- Area
- 1,785,019 m² (178.5 ha, 441.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanaheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Ennistimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ennistimon electoral division: 2,514 people in 934 households; 63% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacravan, Calluragh East, Carrownaclogh, Cloonomra, Kilcornan, Lisroe
- Placenames
- Clooncoul 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.