Cullaun

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cullaun, from 1,269 m² to 584,216 m² (58.42 ha, 144.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Cullaun 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.

• 22 May 2026Conditional

  for the proposed development consists of the demolition of the existing entrance porch and the construction of a new rear extension consisting of, a new porch, entrance hall and living room

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660338

• 17 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a single dwelling house, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360157

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cullaunyheeda 001017

Recorded monuments

• CL043-020 Children's burial ground
  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.

• CL043-021 Ritual site - holy well
  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.

• CL043-110 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

• Cullan Castle, country house, 1780–1785 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, dated 1782, with central breakfront and three-bay full-height bowed section to rear elevation. Now in ruins. Roof no longer in existence. Dressed stone walls with carved plaque to breakfront and string course between floors. Round-headed door opening with pilasters flanking opening, having cornice and archivolt above, now blocked. Tripartite window opening comprising moulded architrave with columns forming mullions. Rendered brick block-and-start surrounds to window openings. Rubble stone former Roman Catholic chapel with lancet-arched openings, now in ruins. Detached L-plan two-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, now derelict. Freestanding gazebo with a stepped base, now in ruins.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Cullaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Cullaun · Coileán

Area

1,788,169 m² (178.82 ha, 441.87 acres)

Civil parish

Quin, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Dangan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dangan electoral division: 245 people in 88 households; 93% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroughan North, Cloonaherna, Craggaunowen, Deerpark North, Deerpark South, Kilcornan, Rathluby, Teeronea

Placenames

Cullaun 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.