Croagh North

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croagh North, from 640 m² to 302,851 m² (30.29 ha, 74.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Croagh North 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  for development, the development consists of the construction of an agricultural loose house and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 25253

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  to revise the house plans previously granted under reference P21/995 & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23622

• 10 Aug 2022Refused

  to (a) Renovate and extend existing derelict substandard cottage (b) Install new wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter (c) Enlarge existing entrance together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22717

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, bored well, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21995

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN the following items: the single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling; the workshop to the rear of the stables/storage shed; the fuel store to the rear of the dwelling; the front entrance onto the public road and the concrete roof tiles, both of which differ to the conditions granted originally by ref P95/461; the detached stables/storage shed which is built as a mirror image to that granted originally by ref P97/1654 and PERMISSION to create an exit door on the ground floor of the dwelling to the right gable and all ancillary site works associated with the development on site

  Retention · Clare County Council, 19893

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Special Area of Conservation: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex SAC 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Black Head-Poulsallagh Complex 000020
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL005-023 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a rise in improved pasture with views from NW-E, c. 60m S of and in a bend formed by Rathborney River. Hachured on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is likely to be the fort described by Westropp (1901, 278) as a ‘nearly levelled caher opposite Fuanaroosca’. Listed as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A moderately well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 25m) defined by a bank of stone and earth (Wth 3.4-5m; H 0.3-0.9m) with occasional external and internal facing (max. H 0.3m). The interior slopes sharply to the E and is heavily overgrown. A short stretch of overgrown bank extends S from SSE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 25 January 2022

• CL005-026002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On rocky ground in hazel overgrowth c. 10m to the W of a stream and within a field system (CL005-026001-). A linear N-S orientated fulacht fia mound (11m N-S; 5m E-W; max H. 1m at S) of burnt stone, with a slight curve to the W at its N end. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 24 January 2022

• CL005-027001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a low rise to the N of the Rathborney River, with views from ESE to W and within the modern graveyard (CL005-027005-) attached to Rathborney church (CL005-027002-). Named ‘Rath boirne’ on Robinson’s map (1977). According to Westropp (1901, 278) it was already ‘much defaced by interments’. A roughly circular enclosure (37m E-W; 34m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1.2m) from S to SE. Outside of this, from S to WNW, there is a terrace (Wth 2.8m) and a second outer scarp (H 0.9m). A gap in the scarp at SSE may indicate an entrance. The interior is highest in the centre and a souterrain (CL005-027004-) entrance is located NW of centre. A bullaun stone (CL005-027005-) lies just outside to the ESE and the church (CL005-027002-) is located immediately NE. Swinfen (1992, 110) suggested it might have been a ‘secular site’, prior to the construction of the church and graveyard. However, Swan (1991, 109) listed it as an ecclesiastical site with substantial evidence for an enclosure, and the presence of the bullaun stone does support this supposition. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 25 January 2022

• CL005-027002 Church
  Description

  In improved pasture, just NNE of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-), that gave its name ‘Rath Boirne’ to the parish and nearby river. Indicated and named ‘Rathborney church (in ruins)’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A moderately well-preserved single-cell church (int. dims. 18.1m E-W; 6.3m N-S) with roughly coursed battered walls (T 1.1m), constructed of roughly dressed limestone blocks. The walls and gables survive to their full height but a belfry on the west gable, mentioned in the 1839 OS letters (Comber 1997, 74), no longer survives. The doorway is at the W end of the S wall and there are windows at the E end of the S wall and just N of centre in the E gable. There are several putlog holes in the N wall and a string course near its top. A stone head projects from the external SW corner. The W wall is plain and featureless. Patches of plaster survive on the internal and external walls. The doorway is pointed (Wth 1.3m; H 2.15m) and has an ornate external moulding. There is a putlog-hole for a drawbar on its E side, a corresponding shallow groove on its W side and a hanging eye above this. An ornate stoup is carved into the interior of the E embrasure. The lower decorative parts of the door jambs have been removed and some of the fragments lie about the graveyard. The E window comprises two pairs of cusped ogee-headed windows, one above the other, with a flat external hood moulding, set in a splayed embrasure (int. Wth 1.2m; Wth at window 0.73m; H 2.6m). Recent rubble has been built on the base of an altar (T 0.6m) inside the E window. The single-light, cusped, ogee-headed window (H 1.6m; Wth 0.19m) in the S wall is set in a small splayed embrasure with a round head – which itself is set in a larger flat-headed embrasure. The larger embrasure has a boxed niche (Wth 0.31m; H 0.23m; D 0.33m) at E. Swinfen (1992, 110) and Westropp (1900, 131-2) agree that most of the standing structure dates to c. 1500, but that there is earlier fabric visible in the lower parts of the E and N walls. Swinfen (1992, 110) records its founder as ‘unknown’. There are two headstones with walled graves and eleven flat slabs in the interior of the church and a graveyard (CL005-027003-) extends to the S and into the adjacent enclosure (CL005-027001-). There is a bullaun stone (CL005-027005-) c. 30m to the south of the church and a souterrain entrance (CL005-027004-) in the enclosure c. 25m to ESE. The following images have been uploaded: CL005-027002-_01.jpg External S wall of church (Large 2011) CL005-027002-_02.jpg View of church from NE (Large 2011) CL005-027002-_03.jpg Door and window details (Large 2011) CL005-027002-_04.jpg Internal view of gables (Large 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-027003 Graveyard
  Description

  Attached to the W and SW of Rathborney church (CL005-027002-). The graveyard is defined by straight modern walls along the W and N and by a curved modern wall E-SW (overall dims. c. 75m E-W; c. 48m N-S). The rath or ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-) occupies most of this enclosed area. Graves are spread throughout the graveyard as well as within the church. Gravemarkers include headstones, flat slabs, reused masonry from the church as well as simple plain gravemarkers and occasional square-headed crosses. The earliest decipherable inscription dates to 1800. At least one grave was inserted into the ESE end of a souterrain (CL005-027004-) within the ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-). There is a bullaun stone (CL005-027005-) within the graveyard 18m SSW of the church and just outside the ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-027004 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-). A well-preserved souterrain with one chamber (L 7.7m; H 1.58m; Wth 1.7-2m) aligned WNW-ESE. An opening at the WNW end is set in a hollow (L 2.5m; Wth 2m; D 1.2m). The sidewalls are built of round and flat stones, almost vertical but with some corbelling at the very top. The souterrain is roofed by eight impressive lintels. Near the E end of the N wall there is a niche (L 0.84m; H 0.3m; D 0.7m) roofed by a single flagstone, cracked near its centre. A build-up of sediment at the ESE end meets with the roof lintel and a human burial is visible in the clay at roof level. The interior is full of rubble and (modern) grave goods. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-027005 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated within the graveyard (CL005-027003-) at Rathborney church (CL005-027002-) just outside the ESE sector of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-). A undressed granite bullaun stone (L 1.1m; Wth 0.82m; T 0.32m) with a single centrally placed oval hollow (L 0.45m; Wth 0.43cm; D 0.27m). The following image has been uploaded: CL005-027005-_01.jpg View of bullaun (Large 2011) Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On slightly elevated land in reclaimed pasture at the lower E end of Rathborney valley and just 11m E of Rathborney R.C. chapel (CL005-030002-). Hachured and named ‘Doontorpa’ on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. The 25-inch ed. of the OS map indicates an external bank from S-NW, not depicted on the 6-inch eds. From the ‘Book of Ballymote’, Westropp (1901, 278) read that ‘Doontorpa possibly derives its name from a certain Torptha or Torpa, chief of the Corcomroes in about A.D. 750, or his contemporary, a prince of Thomond’. Torpa was reputably ‘son of Cermad, grandson of Dima, who, in A.D. 636, claimed the kingship of Munster from Failbe Flan’ (ibid.). A well preserved but heavily overgrown roughly circular rath (diam. c. 38.5m) defined by a bank (Wth 4.6-7m; int. H 0.7-1.6m; ext. H 1.7-2.3m) and from ESE to WNW - an external fosse (Wth 1.5-1.8m; D 1.1-1.5m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.8m) through the bank to the ESE. Inspection in 1999 did not find any remnant of the outer bank depicted on the 25-inch OS map. A low fieldwall runs around the site from W to E and badgers have burrowed into the bank in several places. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

• CL005-030002 Church
  Description

  Situated on level ground at the lower E end of the Rathborney valley and just 11m W of a ringfort (CL005-030001-). This is a T-shaped Catholic church with a N-S transept at the E end of the nave. A sacristy is added externally at E and a porch is attached outside the W door. A subrectangular stoup is built into the wall inside the porch door. An inscription on a plaque on the external W wall of the porch reads ‘This chapel was built at the sole expense of the most noble The Marquis of Buckingham in the year 1795 for the advantage of his Tennants’. The porch (int. dims. 3.04m x 3.08m) is entered through a doorway at N with polished limestone jambs. Its walls are not bonded to the walls of the church. The nave (int. L 16m; Wth 6.1-6.24m) is entered through a round-headed doorway (Wth 1.57m). The walls are of stone but brick is used around the window openings of which there are two in the N wall and three in the S. All have round rear-arches; those on the N are largely broken out and those on the S are blocked up. The transept (int. dims. 19.73m N-S by 6.07m) has large pointed windows in the N and S gables and there are two smaller pointed windows in the E wall. There is a subsidiary lintelled entrance doorway (Wth 1.42m) on the W wall of the N transept. The sacristy (int. dims. 4.57m N-S; 3.65m E-W) is entered through a lintelled doorway from the church. There is a door to the outside in the N wall and a window embrasure in the S wall. The church remained in use until about 1860 (Swinfen 1992, 28). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Michael Moore Date of upload: 19 January 2016

• CL005-032 Enclosure
  Description

  On a rocky rise and under scrub in improved pasture. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 24m) is indicated on the 1916 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and was recorded by Westropp (1901, 278) as a ‘bramble – pestered circular caher nearly levelled to the field and c. 80’ [24.4m] in diameter’. On inspection in 1999 no ground level remains were found. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Croagh North, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croagh North.

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.

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

Name

Croagh North

Area

1,067,196 m² (106.72 ha, 263.71 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

97 people lived in 27 households in the Rathborney electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyallaban, Burrenwee, Cahermacun, Cloonmartin, Drumbrickaun, Gragan East, Gragan West, Newtown

Placenames

Croagh North 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.