Doon

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doon, from 174 m² to 507,641 m² (50.76 ha, 125.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Doon 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.

• 23 Jul 2026Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, private garage, site entrance, access road, bored well, on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660481

• 3 Feb 2026Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P20/385 for development consisting of demolition of existing sheds, construction of extensions and alterations to an existing house and installation of a new wastewater treatment system along with all associated ancillary works.

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2625

• 11 Jun 2020Conditional

  for development consisting of demolition of existing sheds, construction of extensions and alterations to an existing house and installation of a new wastewater treatment system along with all associated ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20385

• 9 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, bored well, treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17856

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• CL018-032 Quarry
  Description

  Listed as ‘Enclosure, possible’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Visible as a small circle of hachures on the 1916 OS 6-inch map but indicated as a ‘Gravel pit, disused’ on the OS 25-inch map (1893). This quarry (c. 25m x c. 20m; max. D 2-3m) is D-shaped with the straight side at E where it abuts a N-S field wall. There is no spoil mound associated with it. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 October 2014

• CL018-033001 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.

• CL018-033002 Bullaun stone
  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.

• CL018-033003 Structure
  Description

  Situated on the top of a hill, c. 55m SW of Doonmulvihill burial ground (CL018-033001-). The base of a solid, rectangular, mortared tower (max. H 2.5m; L at SW 3m; L at NW 2.6m). The SE side has four steps protruding and another at the bottom may be missing. The steps lead to the base of a doorway (Wth 0.6m) through a wall (T 0.6m) indicating that the tower was higher originally. It may have been built by the Butlers of Bunahow (pers. comm. T. Coffey, SMR file). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 July 2016

• CL018-034 Quarry
  Description

  On a knoll in mixed woodland. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Indicated only on the 1916 OS 6-inch map as a small hachured area. On inspection in 2002 this was found to be a quarry (14.5m N-S; 11.7m E-W at base; D 1.2m) with a bank (Wth 2.8m) at S only, resulting from upcast from an inner trench extending from SE to SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 October 2014

• CL018-060 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 8 December 2014

• CL018-093 Coffin-resting stone
  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 Doon.

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 Doon, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doon · Dún Uí Mhaoilmhichíl

Area

2,807,110 m² (280.71 ha, 693.65 acres)

Civil parish

Inchicronan, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Caher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

225 people lived in 86 households in the Caher electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinruan, Calluragh, Drumcore, Knockatoo (Co. Galway), Knockmael East

Placenames

Doon 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.