Feaghquin
Townland in the civil parish of Quin, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Fíoch Chuinche
Parcel 2453811
- Area
- 536 m²
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 128 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- R2 Existing Residential (Quin Settlement Plan) The objective
G3 Open Space (Quin Settlement Plan) The objective - Townland
- Feaghquin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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_730 (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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 76.2 ha
- 188 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 1,178 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Feaghquin, from 38 m² to 286,774 m² (28.68 ha, 70.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community (Community facilities)
Quin Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Quin 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
14 May 2026Conditional
for demolition of existing damaged dwelling and construction of a new re-designed dwelling house and granny flat along with all associated works at existing site
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660319
18 Oct 2025Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, boundary walls / vehicular entrance including all associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560640
9 Oct 2025Conditional
to renovate, alter and extend an existing dwelling house, to covert an attached garage into living accommodation, to construct a new private garage and to demolish an existing garden shed along with all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560618
22 Jun 2025Conditional
A to retain detached converted domestic garage for continued use as a separate residential unit and to provide separate connections to services B PERMISSION to alter and extend the same residential unit including provision of ancillary garden shed in lieu of existing garden shed proposed to be demolished. C Relocate the vehicular entrance to the residential unit referred to above, which also serves the existing main house and access to applicants farmland at the rear, including proposed access to the (yet to be constructed house) previously granted permission under planning ref 22/457. D PERMISSION is also sought to subdivide the property into 3 separate plots for residential use ( excluding the farmland to the rear)
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560368
16 Jun 2025Conditional
Permission for the following changes which are at variance with the grant of planning permission 18-851 (a) Changes to roof structure to the north and west elevations of the dwelling (b) Changes to window fenestrations on all elevations (c) Change to stone surround on the east elevation (d) Omission of wall recess on south elevation (e) Revised site entrance location (f) Change to boundary fence on the western boundary 2. PERMISSION for development which will consist of the completion of the site entrance, wing walls and piers
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560356
21 Jan 2025Conditional
of an upstairs attic conversion consisting of 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, windows and all ancillary incidental works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2515
11 Oct 2024Conditional
of the extension to the side of the existing dwelling and the shed to the rear of the dwelling & all other associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 24326
2 Jun 2022Conditional
to make alterations to the existing dwelling house to include the following; a) construction of covered canopy area to front of dwelling, b) elevational alterations, c) construction of minor extension to the rear of the dwelling and d) associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22486
23 May 2022Conditional
to relocate existing domestic and agricultural entrance to form one joint entrance and to erect a dwelling house, garage, and to connect to public services and access new house from new joint entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22457
4 Oct 2021Refused
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, including connection to public services and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211048
1 Jun 2021Conditional
for development which will consist of a revised garage design, including a change to the garage location to that previously granted under Planning Ref. P19-274 and P18-771
Permission · Clare County Council, 21543
22 Jan 2019Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, ancillary site works, connection to public services and access to public road
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 1933
25 Oct 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garden store, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18851
3 Oct 2018Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house and garage, a temporary septic tank, connection to public services and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18771
14 May 2018Conditional
on the Grant of Outline Planning Permission (Planning Ref. No. P17-786) which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, temporary septic tank ancillary site works and connection to public services
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18381
14 Feb 2018N/a
to construct 5 new two storey dwellings, site boundaries, site entrance to each dwelling, access road, main site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 5 homes · Clare County Council, 18102
12 Oct 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, temporary septic tank, ancillary site works and connection to public services
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 17786
10 May 2017Conditional
to RETAIN revised site boundaries to private dwelling-house site
Retention · Clare County Council, 17347
26 Jan 2017Conditional
for RETENTION permission for the following: (a) the extension constructed to western side of the dwelling (b) the windows and roof windows added to the dwelling (c) the existing shed constructed to the rear of the property (d) the existing garage/storage building constructed at the front of the property, along with associated site works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 1746
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 Area of Conservation: Poulnagordon Cave (Quin) SAC 000064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Poulnagordon Cave (Quin) 000064
Recorded monuments
- CL042-190 Field system
Description
Situated in a large field of pasture on the southern outskirts of Quin village and some 500m S of Quin Friary (CL042-027002-). An ancient field system visible on a Google Earth aerial photograph (taken 5 February 2009, accessed 4 March 2015). The field system includes a large D-shaped enclosure (c. 85m NE-SW; c. 80m NW-SE) with its straight side at NW. A subrectangular enclosure (c. 28m NE-SW; c. 22m NW-SE) is attached at the NE corner and a roadway skirts the E portion of the D-shaped enclosure. The monuments are also visible on Bing maps at http://binged.it/1BcFuju. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 March 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Feaghquin.
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 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_731 (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 Feaghquin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Feaghquin · Fíoch Chuinche
- Area
- 761,663 m² (76.17 ha, 188.21 acres)
- Civil parish
- Quin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Quin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Quin electoral division: 1,524 people in 533 households; 79% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykilty, Cullenagh, Danganbrack, Kildrum, Quin, Rine
- Placenames
- Feaghquin 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.