# Cloonfeaghra, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ruan, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 382,164 m² (38.22 ha, 94.43 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ruan, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/ruan.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Ruan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6070 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30723 - Centre: latitude 52.925703, longitude -9.024847 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfeaghra, from 446 m² to 369,424 m² (36.94 ha, 91.29 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1488184: 369,424 m² (36.94 ha, 91.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1488184.md - Parcel 1513999: 4,413 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513999.md - Parcel 1452701: 3,197 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1452701.md - Parcel 1464345: 2,341 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464345.md - Parcel 1495541: 2,326 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1495541.md - Parcel 1486258: 446 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1486258.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 18 Apr 2017, Clare County Council 17273: N/a. Outline permission. to construct a dwelling with on site wastewater treatment. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17273/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonfeaghra. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL025-031: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-031----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-034----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-035----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonfeaghra. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cloonfeaghra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghboy: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballaghboy-30079.md - Bealnalicka: https://everytownland.com/clare/bealnalicka.md - Cooga: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooga-30789.md - Drumcavan: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumcavan.md - Kilkee East: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkee-east.md - Kilkee West: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkee-west.md - Ooankeagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/ooankeagh.md - Rathcahaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/rathcahaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/cloonfeaghra