Faherlaghroe

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faherlaghroe, from 786 m² to 290,706 m² (29.07 ha, 71.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Faherlaghroe 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.

• 2 Aug 2026Conditional

  to construct a two storey extension to the existing dormer dwelling and an upgrade to the treatment plant / septic tank with percolation area and all associated site services and landscaping. Permission sought includes the retention of an existing detached garage building and a change of use of part of same to a granny flat including amendments to the existing building which includes a proposed pitched roof

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660500

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Faherlaghroe.

Recorded monuments

• CL005-182 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In improved pasture on a W-facing slope with damp ground to the W. Noted by Tom Coffey (1994) as a 'mound of a destroyed wedge or other megalithic structure' (SMR file) and listed as ‘Megalithic Structure’ in the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1998 this was found to be a small subcircular stone and earth mound (3.8m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.4-0.6m), possibly a fulacht fia.   Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload:

• CL009-039 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On the crest of a S-facing slope on the SE edge of a narrow valley in improved pasture and within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-030001-). Hachured on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This small poorly preserved, slightly raised (H 0.2–0.5m) circular area (diams. 14m N–S; 13m E–W) is defined by a low scarp which is most visible from NE–SE-SW (H 0.5m; max. Wth 1–2m), and by a low grass-covered stone bank (H 0.2m; Wth 2–5m) from S–SW-W.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 30-9-2025

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Faherlaghroe, about 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Faherlaghroe.

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.

No address of the register names Faherlaghroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Faherlaghroe

Area

295,202 m² (29.52 ha, 72.95 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcorney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymihil, Caherconnell, Cragballyconoal, Eantybeg North, Eantybeg South, Poulgorm, Poulnabrone

Placenames

Faherlaghroe 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.