Cloonoughter
Townland in the civil parish of St. Patrick's, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Cluain Uachtair
- Area
- 52.5 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 2,620 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonoughter, from 865 m² to 219,907 m² (21.99 ha, 54.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Cloonoughter Cluster, Clare · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Athlunkard Settlement Plan, Clare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
Not Applicable, 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
17 Oct 2019Conditional
to construct dwelling house, septic tank, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19793
21 Aug 2019Conditional
to RETAIN detached garage structure, side access gate and associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 19675
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 Cloonoughter.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonoughter.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonoughter.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_971 (ZIP).
- 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 Cloonoughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonoughter · Cluain Uachtair
- Area
- 524,546 m² (52.45 ha, 129.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Patrick's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyglass, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyglass electoral division: 6,030 people in 2,061 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athlunkard, Clooncarhy, Derryfadda, Shannakyle
- Placenames
- Cloonoughter 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.