Cragard

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cragard, from 5 m² to 151,509 m² (15.15 ha, 37.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Cragard 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.

• 6 Jun 2025Refused

  permission for a) Retention of a hardstanding area for part agricultural use, b) Temporary permission for a period of five years for the use of a portion of the hardstanding area for overflow operations associated with the applicant’s existing haulage business at Claureen Roundabout, including the parking and limited operation of commercial trucks and trailers not in daily use, c) Retention of an existing shed for use associated with both agricultural and temporary permission for five year use as ancillary commercial activities, d) Retention of imported topsoil for the purpose of completing agricultural land reclamation works. The application includes all associated ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2560333

• 10 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house including attached garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22516

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  for (a) construction of shed for storage of commercial vehicles and light repair works, (b) waste water treatment system and percolation area, (c) bored well, (d) upgrade entrance/exit and access road, (e) all ancillary site works and (f) RETAIN gravel area

  Permission · Clare County Council, 211259

• 14 Dec 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN (a) increased width of existing entrance to agricultural lands, (b) upgrade and creation of internal access roads/tracks and (c) on-site storage container in cattle crush

  Retention · Clare County Council, 20950

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house including attached garage and carport, with effluent treatment system, entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19302

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 Cragard.

Recorded monuments

• CL026-038 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In a low-lying area of dense scrub. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) only on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Described by Risteard Ua Cróinín in 1998 (pers. comm., SMR file) as an almost levelled stone fort (int. diam. 22m) it was inaccessible because of the dense growth when inspected in 2004. The area was cleared between 2006 and 2012 (OS MapGenie orthophoto) and the remains of the cashel became more visible. Another enclosure (CL026-198----) lies c. 14m to the SE. Two earthworks (CL026-036001- and CL026-036002-) c. 70m to the W and c. 90m to the SW in Carrowdotia townland, also hachured on the OS 1840 6-inch map, were excavated in advance of the M18 but no structural remains were found. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-041 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-042 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in an area of dense scrub. Hachured on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A circular overgrown area (int. diam. c. 20m) defined by a stone spread (Wth 5.4m-6.5m; int. H 0.6-1m; ext. H 0.6-0.8m) which could only be examined SE-SW. On inspection in 2004 the rest of the site was impenetrable. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-165 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-198 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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_579 (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.

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

Name

Cragard · An Chraig Ard

Area

546,440 m² (54.64 ha, 135.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilraghtis, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Kilraghtis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilraghtis electoral division: 576 people in 185 households; 92% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaconna, Bearnafunshin, Carrowdotia, Curraderra

Placenames

Cragard 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.