Doonaha West

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonaha West, from 25 m² to 218,548 m² (21.85 ha, 54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 15 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.2Utilities (Wastewater)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community (Education)
  Doonaha Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Mar 2026N/a

  for a temporary period of five years, to (a) change the use of the property from commercial store to a biochar facility to facilitate a small-scale pyrolysis operation; (b) install temporary, mobile process equipment, in containers, within the existing yard area surrounding the current shed; (c) all associated site works and services. Retention permission is also sought for the existing boundary walls surrounding the site

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660176

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  to change the use of the existing dwelling house from use as a single permanent residential unit to use for short-term letting / tourist accommodation, together with all associated and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660102

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to rear of existing school and alterations to existing internal school building layout along with all ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560621

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the following: A/ to RETAIN electrical switch room, B) to construct separate shower block, C) to renovate existing office/ reception with associated elevational changes, D) construct/install ground mounted solar fence/panels for self consumption plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 221161

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct an entrnace and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17980

• 27 Feb 2017Unconditional

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P12-170 for the upgrading of camping facilities to include 57 additional Bays and wastewater treatment system

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 17136

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077

Recorded monuments

• CL066-003 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL066-006 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL066-035 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL066-036 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL066-037001 Battery
  Description

  One of a number of batteries along the coast north and south of the Shannon Estuary. Described by Kerrigan (1995, 207-8) as ‘Some three miles north-east of Kilcredaun Point on the north side of the estuary, this battery was similar in layout to the other batteries except that it was slightly smaller and mounted four 24-pounders instead of the usual six. The dry moat is badly eroded, though it retains more masonry and is more complete than that at Corran Point battery on the opposite shore. The bombproof barrack or defensible guardhouse is half demolished, but clearly demonstrates how strongly built these structures were, with a massive barrel-vault supporting the gun platform. The iron pivot for the centre mounting for one of the traversing platforms is visible at the western end of the roof terrace. Doonaha battery is some 200 feet wide from the outer face or scarp of the flank walls, compared with an average of 250 feet for the other batteries.’ Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 26 July 2016

• CL066-038 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• CL066-056 Ringfort - rath
  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

• Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, church/chapel, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic church, built c. 1870, with four-bay side elevations having single-bay transepts and single-bay single-storey sacristy with attic to rear. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch, c. 1980. Pitched artificial slate roof with clay ridge cresting, cast-iron rainwater goods, render gable copings, cross finials and having rendered chimneystack to rear. Pebbledashed walls with plat bands and having font inset into porch wall. Lancet openings with leaded coloured glass and having timber sash windows with Y-tracery glazing bars to sacristy. Timber matchboard double leaf doors with overlights. Retaining interior features including carved timber reredos and altar, timber open balustrade to choir gallery supported on fluted timber columns and carved timber altar rails. Rendered boundary walls with metal railings to site.

• Eugene O'Curry Monument, forge/smithy, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey forge, built c. 1930. Inscribed plaque added to accommodate use as memorial, 1986. Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, built c. 1820, to site. Pitched slate roof with stone chimneystack. Rubble stone walls. Timber lintel to opening having wrought-iron gate. Stone lintel and fixed timber window to gable. Rubble stone forge fireplace and cut stone trough on plinth to interior. Landscaped site. Inscribed plaque refers to Eugene O’Curry, 1796-1862, Gaelic scholar and first Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the newly founded Catholic University in 1854. His lectures there were published as Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (1861).

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 Doonaha West, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonaha West

Area

3,022,891 m² (302.29 ha, 746.97 acres)

Civil parish

Moyarta, and its townlands

Barony

Moyarta

Electoral division

Moyarta, the unit of the census

Census 2022

234 people lived in 98 households in the Moyarta electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Doonaha East, Furroor Lower, Kilfearagh, Lisheencrony, Lisheenfurroor, Querrin

Placenames

Doonaha West 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.