Drumcliff

105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcliff, from 21 m² to 491,221 m² (49.12 ha, 121.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 48 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 42 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Water Bodies (General)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Utilities (Water)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 May 2026Unconditional

  to carry out the following development: The proposed works shall include for the following: 1) Change of use of the east corner of the existing building from changing room to coffee hatch. 2) Remove internal blockwork and toilets from existing changing rooms 7 & 8 to create new self-contained preparation area and coffee hatch. 3) Construct new canopy to the north of the existing building. 4) Replace existing windows on the north elevation and and lower sill level to allow for service hatches to new coffee hatch, remove existing window at east elevation and replace with new door. 5) Install new electrical sockets, sinks and counter space required for new coffee hatch. 6) Install new external signage as required. 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 significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development and an EIA is not required

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268008

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  of existing garden shed, as constructed

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25384

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560405

• 12 Jun 2025N/a

  to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560346

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  to construct 6 additional semi-detached dwelling houses as part of the Acha Bhile housing estate, to connect to existing services, access to existing estate road and to carry out all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 6 homes · Clare County Council, 2460501

• 26 Oct 2023N/a

  to construct 6 additional semi-detached dwelling houses as part of the Acha Bhile housing estate, to connect to existing services, access to existing estate road and to carry out all associated and ancillary site works

  Permission, 6 homes · Clare County Council, 2360449

• 28 Feb 2023N/a

  to construct 6 additional semi-detached dwelling houses as part of the Acha Bhile housing estate, to connect to existing services and to carry out all associated site works

  Permission, 6 homes · Clare County Council, 23117

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  to vary part of site layout and house types of housing development granted under Planning Permission Ref: P15/835 with extended duration granted under P21/135

  Permission · Clare County Council, 221119

• 9 Sept 2022N/a

  to carry out the following development: Improvement works to St Brigids Section E and the development of an extension to the existing Burial Ground at Drumcliff, Ennis, Co Clare. The development will include: 1) An addition of circa 350 double plots including provision for ash plots. 2) Access road improvements including lay-bys, turning circle and traffic calming measures. 3) Parking; 23 stardard spaces, 6 Wheelchair accessible spaces. 3) Footpaths. 4) Drainage. 5) Planting and landscaping including Columbarium and Reflectance Garden. 6) Associated Site 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 significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development

  Permission · Clare County Council, 228008

• 1 Jul 2022N/a

  to carry out the following development: Improvement works to St Brigids Section E and the development of an extension to the existing Burial Ground at Drumcliffe, Ennis, Co Clare. The development will include: 1) Circa 350 double plots and provision for ash plots, 2) Access road improvements including lay-bys, turning circle and traffic calming measures, 3) Parking; 23 standard spaces, 6 Wheelchair accessible spaces, Footpaths, Drainage, Planting and landscaping including Columbarium and Reflectance Garden 4) Associated Site 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 significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development

  Permission · Clare County Council, 228004

• 18 Jan 2022Conditional

  of the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling, with all associated site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2221

• 18 Feb 2021Unconditional

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P15-835 for the construction of 35 dwelling houses consisting of 34 semi-detached dwelling houses and 1 detached dwelling house, roads, footpaths and associated site works in-lieu of 36 housing units not being constructed which were granted permission as part of the overall Acha Bhile Housing Development under Planning Permission Refs: 05-21104 (Ennis Town Council), P05-1348 (Clare County Council), Extension of Duration Permission Refs: 11-21018 (Ennis Town Council) and P11-108 (Clare County Council) and completion of remaining part of estate with all associated site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21135

• 4 Jun 2020Conditional

  proposes to carry out the following development at Claureen, Ennis, Co Clare under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF). The proposed development is to provide for a link road between the existing N85 roundabout and the junctions of Lees Road (L4180)/Drumcliffe Road (L4599)&(L4182)/ Drehidnagower Road (L4587) and includes for the following works: 1) Link road and associated cycle paths and footpaths 2) The creation of new junction/roundabout and improvements on the Lees Road/ Drumcliffe Road Junction; 3) The creation of new junction and improvements on Lahinch Road onto the existing N85 roundabout; 4) The provision of trunk water and drainage services and other services; 5) Public lighting installation; 6) The connecting of existing services to the site; 7) Ancillary site works, ground works and landscaping. 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 significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 208003

• 8 May 2020Conditional

  the development will consist of: demolition of an existing dwelling house and construction of a single replacement dwelling house, provision of a new vehicular access onto the Drumcliff Road, provision of a new waste water treatment system, percolation area, and connections ancillary to the residential development, appropriate landscaping and boundary treatments, as well as all associated site development works and services. The Planning Application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20297

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: Ballyallia Lake SAC 000014
• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Ballyallia Lough SPA 004041
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Cleggan 001331
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyallia Lake 000014

Recorded monuments

• CL033-032 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated on a broad but slight N-S ridge within a coniferous forest. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A subcircular area (int. diam. 25m E-W; 23.1m N-S) defined by a moss-covered stone spread (Wth 2.4-3.5m; H 0.4-0.9m) with occasional facing stones (original Wth 0.8-1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 May 2016

• CL033-033001 Church
  Description

  Situated about 2 miles NW of Ennis town near the top of a steep E-facing slope within a large graveyard (CL033-033002-). No historical references are known for this ecclesiastical site but its foundation is sometimes attributed to St Conald (or Connal) (Gleeson and Gwynn 1962, 33-4; Swinfen 1992, 22). Westropp (1894, 335) refers to its taxation (Ecclesia de Drumleb) in 1302-6. The present church dates to the fifteenth century but incorporates features of an earlier church. Westropp (1900-02, 143) assigns a date of the 11th century to the S wall and the windows but a 15th-century date to the E gable. This became the medieval parish church of Drumcliff, incorporating both Ennis town and Clonroad. It is known to have been still in use in 1622 when Bishop John Rider of Killaloe states that the Protestant incumbent was ‘Thomas Prichard, a grave minister and preacher; a man of good life and conversation, inducted in Anno 1617’ (Swinfen 1992, 22). The conserved remains of a rectangular church (ext. dims. 20.05m E-W; 7.85m N-S; int. dims. 16.3m E-W; 6.3m N-S) with evidence of rebuilding. The walls are of uncoursed limestone rubble. The N wall is featureless and survives to full height except for 3m at the W end which is reduced to foundation level. The E wall has a twin-light mullioned ogee-headed window (H 1.55m) with a square hood-moulding externally. There is an aumbry (Wth 0.73m; H 0.55m; D 0.2m) at the S end of the E wall. A gently pointed doorway (Wth 0.9m; H 2m) in the S wall (5.2m from the W end) has a rounded chamfered rear-arch (Wth 1.25m. H 2.6m) with steps down to the interior and a surviving drawbar- slot. To the W of the door the wall projects inwards for 0.3m. A similar projection on the E side of the door is visible on Westropp’s plan (1894, 334) and so the surround of the doorway sat proud of the internal wall line. There are two windows in the S wall both with wide internal splays. The one further E is flat-headed with an external chamfer and rebate although this window was described by Westropp (ibid., 333) as having ‘a semicircular head and moulding’. A third window with a wide splay was blocked by the insertion of the E wall and so the church extended further E at some time. The dressed stones of the W splay of this window are still visible. The W wall has a simple, round-headed, single-light window set within a cutstone round-headed splayed embrasure placed high in the gable. It is not centrally placed, being to the N of the apex, indicating that the entire church was rebuilt. There are traces of a corbel table at the top of the N and S walls at the E end. The ruined remains of a round tower (CL033-033003-) lie c. 10m to the N. The church and round tower are national monuments in State care, no. 204. (Westropp 1894, 332-40; 1900-02, 143; Gwynn and Gleeson 1962, 32-5; Swinfen 1992, 21-2; Large 2011) The following images are attached: CL033-033001-_01.jpg Drumcliff graveyard with church and round tower CL033-033001-_02.jpg Church from NE showing E window lit by sunset CL033-033001-_03.jpg View of interior S wall CL033-033001-_04.jpg Interior of S doorway CL033-033001-_05.jpg Drawbar-slot in S doorway CL033-033001-_06.jpg Early window off-centre in W wall CL033-033001-_07.jpg Window in S wall with external chamfer and rebate CL033-033001-_08.jpg Internal window splay with dressed sandstone in S wall blocked by the insertion of the E wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 April 2015

• CL033-033002 Graveyard
  Description

  Indicated as an oval graveyard (c. 90m N-S; c. 75m E-W) on the OS first edition 6-inch map but now extended further S (max. dims. 200m N-S; c. 160m E-W). A steeply sloping and extensive graveyard defined by a 19th-century stone wall with mature yew trees and many 18th and 19th century tombstones. Drumcliff church (CL033-033001-) and round tower (CL033-033003-) lie at the N extremity. The graveyard contains a pauper’s grave at the SW corner where the poor, particularly from the 19th-century workhouse, are buried. There is also the unmarked mass grave of some 350 cholera victims from an outbreak in the 1830’s and an ill-defined famine grave from 1846-9 where it is thought more than 2000 people are buried. (Lalor 1999, 109-10) Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 April 2015

• CL033-033003 Round tower
  Description

  Situated near the top of a steep E-facing slope almost at the N perimeter of Drumcliff graveyard (CL033-033002-) c. 10m N of the church (CL033-033001-). A ruined circular tower (diam. at base 4.88m, int. diam. 2.44m) standing to 11m on the N side but only to 3m on the S (Wth of wall at S 1.14m), built of coursed roughly squared and dressed limestone interspersed with large irregular boulders and smaller stones. The courses are more regular above the first metre and the walls have a mortared rubble core. The interior is filled with earth to the level of the surviving S side. A first-floor doorway at a height of 6m was evident in 1808 and was described as having a moulding round it (Barrow 1979, 59). Three windows were also present, one of which faced W, 7.3m above the ground. This window appears to be square-headed in a 19th-century drawing in the Royal Irish Academy (ibid.). Offsets for the first, second and third floors are clearly visible in the interior. Two pairs of non-structural corbels can be seen, one at first and one at second floor level. The round tower and the church are national monuments in State care, no. 204. (Barrow 1979, 59; Lalor 1999, 109, 111) The following images are attached: CL033-033003-_01.jpg Round tower from SW CL033-033003-_02.jpg View from S Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 April 2015

• CL033-034001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of Ryan Hill. A large D-shaped area (c. 140m E-W; c. 100m N-S) with a straight N side, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) at NE and an earthen bank (Wth 5.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.5m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.5m) at SW with traces of a scarp NE-SW. A NE-SW field wall bisects the enclosure and S of this is an inner scarp (H 0.5m) (diam. c. 70m NE-SW) that does not continue N of the field wall. Within that again is a rectangular area (32m NNE-SSW; 18m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarp (max. H 0.7m at E) and a slight bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m) at S which is also cut by and extant only S of the field wall. A possible church (CL033-034002-) lay in the N portion of the rectangular area. Drumcliff church (CL033-033----) lies c. 700m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 May 2016

• CL033-034002 Church
  Description

  Within a large enclosure (CL033-034001-) on top of Ryan Hill. A building named ‘Temple Varaghan’ is indicated on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Very little is known of its history and it is not certain that this was a church site. Westropp (1900-02, 144) refers to ‘Templeharaghan’ and describes it as being entirely demolished, having stood within a fort ‘now nearly levelled’. Referred to by Swinfen (1992, 133) as ‘Temple Harigan’, she states that there is mention of a Templeharraghan – alias Killargreayn – in the 1195 charter of Clare Abbey and in papal letters. Drumcliff church (CL033-033----) lies c. 700m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 May 2016

• CL033-035 Crannog
  Description

  On a slight ENE-WSW ridge on the floodplain of the River Fergus. Investigated in 1905 by Diana Parkinson, who opened about one third of the crannog. She recorded that it was composed wholely of stone laid down on marl. There was no wood component, and wooden artefacts were not recovered. No structures were identified within the monument, but large quantities of bones were recovered. Stone, bronze and iron artefacts were also recovered. It survives as a grass- and scrub-covered mound of earth and stone (diam. of base 14.5m E-W; diam. of top 7m E-W; H 1.5-1.9m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 May 2016

• CL033-173 Enclosure
  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.

• CL033-200 Crannog
  Description

  On the S shore of Ballyalla Lake. A small oval area (c. 9.5m SW-NE; c. 5m NW-SE) c. 15m from the shore and apparently composed of stone was noted on drone photography by John Tracey in 2022. An image on Apple Maps shows a possible small causeway leading to what may be a related site nearer the shore. Four other crannogs are known from this lake (CL033-035----, CL033-036----, CL033-037----, and CL033-040001-). One (CL033-040001-) is submerged and has a submerged causeway (CL033-040002-) leading to it. One (CL033-035----) was excavated in 1904/5 and was found to be composed wholly of stone laid down on marl. The following images have been uploaded: CL033-200----_01.jpg Satellite view from Apple maps CL033-200----_02.jpg Drone image (John Tracey) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 23 November 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumcliff.

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 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_501 (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 Drumcliff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Drumcliff · Drom Cléibh

Area

4,424,731 m² (442.47 ha, 1,093.37 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

Ballyallia, Ballycorey, Ballyhee, Ballymaley, Ballymaquiggin, Claureen, Drumcaran More, Dulick, Erinagh Beg, Fountain, Lifford, Loughvella, Rinerrinagh

Placenames

Drumcliff 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.