Drumcaran Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Drom Carthainn Beag
- Area
- 37.1 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 15,544 m² (1.55 ha, 3.84 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcaran Beg, from 2,077 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 253,721 m² (25.37 ha, 62.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- P1Agriculture
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 2 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
9 Feb 2021Conditional
to complete the construction of a garage originally granted under P05-1491, and which was only constructed to floor level, with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2186
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 Drumcaran Beg.
Recorded monuments
- CL033-069 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a rise in an undulating karst landscape. A circular overgrown area (diam. 26m E-W) defined by a stone spread (at W: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m), but a large section of this is missing at E. There is no visible entrance or facing stones. An enclosure (CL033-070----) stood c. 120m to the E but is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 April 2017
- CL033-070 Enclosure
Description
Situated in reclaimed pasture on a karst landscape. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level. There is a cashel (CL033-069----) in the same field c. 120m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 25 April 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcaran Beg.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_478 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumcaran Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Drumcaran Beg · Drom Carthainn Beag
- Area
- 371,468 m² (37.15 ha, 91.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Ennis Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ennis Rural electoral division: 19,353 people in 7,011 households; 66% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bushypark, Drumcaran More, Fountain
- Placenames
- Drumcaran Beg 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.