Coor
Coor is a townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Comhar.
- Area
- 102.3 ha
- 253 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 2,339 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- C2.1
- Light Industry
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coor, from 469 m² to 348,362 m² (34.84 ha, 86.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C2.1Light Industry (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 1 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
19 May 2025Unconditional
to carry out the following development: for Beechpark Machinery Yard building & site upgrade, proposed works to include: 1) Construction of a new 162m2 storage shed located at the rear (north) of the site. 2) Reroofing and recladding of the existing warehouse and office building. 3) Provision of 47 no. car parking spaces, 7 no van parking spaces, 7 no. rigid lorry bays and 3 no. articulated lorry parking bays & 2 no. accessible parking bays. 4) Provision 9 no. EV Charging spaces. 5) Removal of existing boundary fencing and entry gate and provision of new palisade boundary fencing with sliding entry gate. 6) Demarcation of new pedestrian crossing area. 7) Installation of solar panels to southwest facing side of main warehouse and office building roof. 8) Provision of rainwater harvesting system and new surface water attenuation area. 9) Provision of service area for mobile library. 10) All ancillary site works and services. In accordance with the habitats Directive, Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project, and the screening report accompanies this application. In accordance with Articles 81 and 120 of the Planning & Development Regulations 2001, (as amended), Clare County Council has concluded from an EIA screening determination that no significant effects on the environment are likely as a result of the proposed development and that an Environmental Impact Assessment is not required
Permission · Clare County Council, 258003
20 Mar 2024Conditional
for development, the development consists of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2492
10 Dec 2018Conditional
to RETAIN extension and alterations to dwelling house consisting of ground floor and first floor accommodation as constructed.
Retention · Clare County Council, 181016
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cahircalla Wood 001001
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Coor.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coor.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Coor, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_480 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Coor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Coor · Comhar
- Area
- 1,023,433 m² (102.34 ha, 252.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Ennis Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 19,353 people lived in 7,011 households in the Ennis Rural electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacaula, Cahircalla More, Inch More, Inchbeg, Shantulla
- Placenames
- Coor 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.