Corranroo
Corranroo is a townland in the civil parish of Abbey, barony of Burren, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cora an Rú.
- Area
- 41.9 ha
- 104 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 1,884 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Corranroo, from 33 m² to 91,754 m² (9.18 ha, 22.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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
No zone of a development plan covers Corranroo 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
13 Aug 2021Conditional
the development consists of upgrading existing wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21862
16 Nov 2020Conditional
of the development which consists of (a) bay window, (b) orangery (c) shed and (d) retention of use of stone structure as habitable accommodation
Retention · Clare County Council, 20861
29 Sept 2020N/a
for the development consists of (a) bay window, (b) orangery (c) shed
Retention · Clare County Council, 20696
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
- Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Corranroo.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Corranroo.
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 Corranroo, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Corranroo.
- 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 Corranroo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Corranroo · Cora an Rú
- Area
- 419,240 m² (41.92 ha, 103.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burren
- Electoral division
- Abbey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 525 people lived in 212 households in the Abbey electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Inishroo (Co. Galway), Leagh North (Co. Galway), Leagh South (Co. Galway), Roo Demesne (Co. Galway), Rossalia
- Placenames
- Corranroo 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.