Doonass Demesne

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonass Demesne, from 144 m² to 471,764 m² (47.18 ha, 116.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• O2Cluster (General)
  Doonass Cluster, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 May 2026Conditional

  to construct an 119m2 extension to existing dwelling house, the construction of a new garage, the upgrading of existing treatment unit on site and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660324

• 13 Feb 2026Conditional

  of development which will consist of retention of vehicular and pedestrian entrance gates to existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660071

• 20 May 2022Conditional

  to develop new graveyard, columbarium, pedestrian bridge to existing graveyard, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22454

• 10 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, garage, bored well, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21602

• 19 Nov 2020Conditional

  for an entrance, single storey dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment plant with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20874

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN and complete detached garage and to RETAIN relocated entrance position from that permitted under planning ref 06/2797 (duration of permission extended under planning ref 11/646) together with all associated incidental and site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 20847

• 27 May 2020Conditional

  to construct four bay extension to existing slatted unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20335

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

Recorded monuments

• CL054-009 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.

• CL054-010001 Church
  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.

• CL054-010002 Graveyard
  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.

• CL054-010003 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.

• CL054-010004 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.

• CL054-014 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.

• CL063A001 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: 18 December 2014

Architectural heritage

• Doonass House, country house, 1815–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey country house, built 1820, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey recessed breakfront. Vacant, 1997. Hipped slate roof with pressed iron ridges, paired rendered central chimney stacks having ogee-detailed cut-limestone capping supporting yellow terracotta pots, and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods on overhanging panelled eaves having paired timber consoles on "Cavetto" cornice. Roughcast walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth on roughcast base. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of three bull nose-detailed cut-limestone sills with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Pair of square-headed central window openings (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings in tripartite arrangement in shared elliptical-headed recesses (ground floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings including lintels framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns having two-over-two sidelights. Square-headed window openings in shared elliptical-headed recesses (first floor) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows without horns. Set in unkempt grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having ogee-detailed cornices on fluted friezes on stringcourses below shallow pyramidal capping supporting spear head-detailed wrought iron double gates. NOTE: Doonass House was built by Sir Hugh Dillon Massy (1767-1842) and is shown in the distance of a sketch (11th April 1842) titled "Doonass House Sir Hugh Massy Co. Clare from Mr. Whites Castle Connell near Limerick" by Captain Thomas Hastings (né Barnett) (1778-1854) [NLI vtls000245547]. Doonass House was subsequently the home of Sir Hugh Dillon Massy (1797-1870) and Dame Lady Mary Dillon Massy (née Westropp) (1800-90). Doonass House was sold (1919) by Colonel John Massy Westropp (1860-1951) and was later occupied by a team of engineers and scientists brought over from Germany to advise on and assist in the construction of the Shannon Scheme (1925-9): some of the team were summonsed (26th June 1926) to appear at Limerick District Court on charges of operating a shebeen from the house and their cellar of wine, totalling 1,500 bottles valued at £700, was confiscated (McCarthy 2004, 128). Doonass House was later owned by Benyamin Weizmann (1907-80), son of Chaim Azriel Weizmann (1874-1952), first President of Israel, who reduced it in size by demolishing the eighteenth-century section (1786) adjoining the stable yard (Gaelic Weekly 22nd October 1960).

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1053 (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 Doonass Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Doonass Demesne · Diméin Dhún Easa

Area

1,050,076 m² (105.01 ha, 259.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltenanlea, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltenanlea electoral division: 1,987 people in 660 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cottage, Doonass, Illaunyregan, Summerhill

Placenames

Doonass Demesne 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.