Dooros
Townland in the civil parish of Inishcaltra, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare; in Irish Dúras
- Area
- 27.8 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 12,955 m² (1.3 ha, 3.2 acres)
- Zoning
- C5
- Tourism
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooros, from 54 m² to 57,157 m² (5.72 ha, 14.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Mountshannon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Mountshannon 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
24 Jun 2025Conditional
the development will consist of 3 no. tourist rental cabins upgrade vehicular access entrance and associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 25205
12 Sept 2017Conditional
to RETAIN minor alterations to existing dwelling house, namely position of chimney, windows and door on the south east elevation and to the rear of the dwelling, increase in floor area of attached domestic garage, storage sheds, including all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 17695
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dooros.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooros.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dooros.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dooros with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Dooros · Dúras
- Area
- 277,945 m² (27.79 ha, 68.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishcaltra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Mountshannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Mountshannon electoral division: 463 people in 197 households; 72% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonamirran, Mountshannon
- Placenames
- Dooros 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.