Doonogan
Doonogan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Dún Ógáin.
- Area
- 422.1 ha
- 1,043 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 15,249 m² (1.52 ha, 3.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonogan, from 207 m² to 901,473 m² (90.15 ha, 222.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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
No zone of a development plan covers Doonogan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Jun 2025Conditional
to regularise the change of the current site boundaries that are at variance with those that were authorised under planning permission P09-1258 with all necessary ancillary services
Retention · Clare County Council, 2560343
22 Jan 2025Conditional
to extend the existing livestock slatted tank and replace the existing building with a new structure with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 2517
19 Dec 2022Conditional
to build a new dwelling house, garage, install a wastewater treatment system & all other site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221148
3 Jun 2022Conditional
of the following a) the alterations and rear extension to the existing dwelling house b) the garage/shed as constructed along with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22495
21 Feb 2019Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, new sewage treatment system, new entrance onto public road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19129
26 Mar 2018Conditional
to build a new dwelling house, install a waste treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18233
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 Doonogan.
Recorded monuments
- CL039-001 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.
- CL039-002 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.
- CL039-005 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.
- CL039-007 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.
- CL039-010002 Castle - tower house
Description
On top of a prominent plug of rock outcrop. It was probably built by Mortagh O'Brien and is first mentioned in a list of 1577 (Frost 1893, 638) and was granted to Donagh O'Brien, the fourth earl of Thomond in 1585 who leased it to James FitzNicholas Bourke of Limerick in 1618 (Ua Cróinín and Breen report, see attached document). Rectangular area (int. dims. 5m E-W; 4.6m N-S) defined by the outer facing of a wall (H 0.5m) at E, a scarp (H 0.6m) at S, and grass-covered stone spreads at W (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) and N (Wth 2m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.85m). There are fragments of masonry in the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore 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: 12 December 2014
- CL039-036001 Penitential station
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.
- CL039-036002 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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonogan.
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 Doonogan, 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 Doonogan.
- 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
- Doonogan, Mullagh6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Doonogan · Dún Ógáin
- Area
- 4,221,395 m² (422.14 ha, 1,043.13 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Mullagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 194 people lived in 84 households in the Mullagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymackea Beg, Carrowlagan, Carrownagry North, Cloonlaheen West, Coor West, Creevagh, Knockanalban, Moyglass More, Shanavogh West, Treanmanagh
- Placenames
- Doonogan 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.