Doonaun
Doonaun is a townland in the civil parish of Tulla, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Dúnán.
- Area
- 59 ha
- 146 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,581 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonaun, from 9 m² to 137,174 m² (13.72 ha, 33.9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Tulla Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Tulla 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 May 2026Conditional
to make changes to the elevations, and change the use of an existing garage building, to use as a granny flat, with all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 26118
24 Jan 2024Conditional
to construct a new single detached dwelling house including: access drive from the public road, connection to public sewer and services together with all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2415
26 Feb 2020Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P14-570 to construct an athletics training facility including the following, A) An all weather running track with area lighting, B) A cross country running track, C) Building incorporating a large indoor training area, public toilets, dressing rooms and club rooms, D) Effluent treatment system, and E) New entrance from public road, all with associated site works
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 20131
28 Nov 2019Conditional
proposes to carry out the following development. The construction of a new housing estate development consisting of: a. 25 no residential units comprising of: (1) 1 no. 4-bedroom house, single-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type A (2) 1 no. 4-bedroom house two-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type B (3) 6 no. 3 bedroom house, two-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type C (4) 6 no. 3 bedroom house, two-storey semi-detached i.e. Type D (5) 8 no. 2 bedroom apartments, two storey semi-detached i.e. Type E (6) 3 no. 3 bedroom house, single-storey semi-detached/detached, i.e. Type F (b) 34 ancillary car parking spaces within the development. (c) The construction of pedestrian access point to the site. (d) New vehicular access point to the site (e) Pedestrian link to the adjoining O'Reilly Park housing estate. (f) On-site sewage pumping station with rising main connection to main sewer. (g) Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. (h) Surface water management will include attenuation and discharge to surface water network. (I) All ancillary site works to include boundary and landscaping works. In accordance with the habitats Directive, Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. An Environmental Impact Assessment EIA screening determination has been made and concludes that there is no real likelihood of signification effects on the environment arising from the proposed developmen
Permission · Clare County Council, 198017
24 Oct 2019N/a
proposes to carry out the following development. The construction of a new housing estate development consisting of: a. 25 no residential units comprising of: (1) 1 no. 4-bedroom house, single-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type A (2) 1 no. 4-bedroom house two-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type B (3) 6 no. 3 bedroom house, two-storey semi-detached, i.e. Type C (4) 6 no. 3 bedroom house, two-storey semi-detached i.e. Type D (5) 8 no. 2 bedroom apartments, two storey semi-detached i.e. Type E (6) 3 no. 3 bedroom house, single-storey semi-detached/detached, i.e. Type F (b) 34 ancillary car parking spaces within the development. (c) The construction of pedestrian access point to the site. (d) New vehicular access point to the site (e) Pedestrian link to the adjoining O'Reilly Park housing estate. (f) On-site sewage pumping station with rising main connection to main sewer. (g) Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. (h) Surface water management will include attenuation and discharge to surface water network. (I) All ancillary site works to include boundary and landscaping works. In accordance with the habitats Directive, Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. An Environmental Impact Assessment EIA screening determination has been made and concludes that there is no real likelihood of signification effects on the environment arising from the proposed development.
Permission · Clare County Council, 198014
24 Mar 2017Conditional
to retain private garage to rear of dwelling house along with all associated site works and services.
Retention · Clare County Council, 17215
10 Jan 2017Conditional
to demolish existing dilapidated cottage and construct a new two storey detached dwelling house similar to adjacent house including: modified vehicular entrance, new front wall and footpath, access drive from the public road, separate garage, connection to public sewer and services together with all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 175
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Doonaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Doonaun, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Doonaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Doonaun · An Dúnán
- Area
- 590,006 m² (59 ha, 145.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tulla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Tulla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,138 people lived in 437 households in the Tulla electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunavory, Cloondoorney Beg, Cragg, Drummaghmartin, Garruragh, Tulla
- Placenames
- Doonaun 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.