Cranagher

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranagher, from 21 m² to 259,547 m² (25.95 ha, 64.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Cranagher 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.

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  to erect a dwellinghouse and garage, install an effluent system and percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660513

• 10 Aug 2026N/a

  to erect a dwellinghouse and garage, install an effluent system and percolation system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660515

• 16 Mar 2026N/a

  for development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660161

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, advanced treatment system, widen existing entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25217

• 30 Jan 2024Conditional

  to: 1) Revise the Site Boundaries and 2) retain a storage shed as constructed and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2421

• 15 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of a ten year permission for a solar farm on a site of approximately 31.18 hectares consisting of the following; up to 92,550 sq. m of solar photo-voltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; electrical substation with electrical control building and associated compound with palisade fence; inverter/transformer stations; underground power and communication cables and ducts; boundary security fencing; upgraded internal access tracks; new internal access tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; upgrade and use of the existing access to the local public road between Feenagh and Rathclooney, CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19194

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 Cranagher.

Recorded monuments

• CL034-027 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.

• CL034-251 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of a low NE-SW ridge in pasture. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a low earthen bank. Visible on Google Earth (Imagery date: 19 Jan 2020). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_691 (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 Cranagher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Cranagher · Crannchuir

Area

1,170,172 m² (117.02 ha, 289.16 acres)

Civil parish

Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Spancelhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Spancelhill electoral division: 725 people in 248 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycrighan, Cahershaughnessy, Kilgobban, Kilvoydan South, Knockanoura, Muckinish

Placenames

Cranagher 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.