Cloonfeaghra

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfeaghra, from 446 m² to 369,424 m² (36.94 ha, 91.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonfeaghra 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 Apr 2017N/a

  to construct a dwelling with on site wastewater treatment

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 17273

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 Cloonfeaghra.

Recorded monuments

• CL025-031 Enclosure
  Description

  In a level area at the N edge of a hollow with a pond c. 40m to the SE. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps and on the 25-inch plan. On inspection in 1999 the area had been cleared and no remains were visible at ground level. Faint traces of an enclosure are visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). Compiled by: Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 19 November 2025

• CL025-034 Earthwork
  Description

  At the bottom of a S-facing slope overlooking a small pond immediately to the NW. Hachured on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps and on the 25-inch plan as a D-shaped enclosure. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 there were no visible remains at ground level. Not visible on available aerial imagery (2024). Compiled by: Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 19 November 2025

• CL025-035 Enclosure
  Description

  In a level area in pasture. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. Listed in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as an enclosure. Many of the field boundaries on the 1920 map have been cleared. On inspection in 1999 there were no visible remains at ground level. Not visible on any available aerial photography (2024). Compiled by: Mary Tunney   Date of upload: 19 November 2025

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonfeaghra.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cloonfeaghra.

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.

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

Name

Cloonfeaghra

Area

382,164 m² (38.22 ha, 94.43 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ruan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ruan electoral division: 767 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Bealnalicka, Cooga, Drumcavan, Kilkee East, Kilkee West, Ooankeagh, Rathcahaun

Placenames

Cloonfeaghra 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.