Fossa Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Tomgraney, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish An Fosadh Beag
- Area
- 232 ha
- 573 acres
- Land parcels
- 138
- registered freehold, median 2,683 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 23
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
138 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Fossa Beg, from 25 m² to 110,497 m² (11.05 ha, 27.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 38 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community (Community facilities)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4Strategic Residential Reserve
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S1Community (Education)
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Scarriff Tuamgraney Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
Scarriff Tuamgraney 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
27 Apr 2026Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, the construction of a new garage, proposed new entrance, connection to public services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660267
19 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct a 3 bedroom single storey dwelling house, entrance onto public roadway, effluent treatment system and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460653
17 Sept 2024Conditional
to install a padel ball court and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460445
14 Aug 2024Conditional
to install an all weather pitch and floodlighting and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460378
31 Jan 2024Conditional
for 40' Storage Container
Permission · Clare County Council, 2423
31 Aug 2023Conditional
of first floor conversion including alterations to elevations and also retain garage erected for private domestic use and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23472
14 Jul 2023Conditional
to construct extension and modifications to existing dwelling house along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 23401
19 Jul 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22653
20 Apr 2022Conditional
to construct (i) slatted shed over existing slatted tanks with loose area and crush (ii) walled manure area and all associated site works. Demolition of existing shed over slatted tanks required
Permission · Clare County Council, 22353
25 Nov 2021N/a
proposes to carry out the following development. The construction of a new housing estate development consisting of: a) 18 no. residential units comprising of: (1) 2 No 3-bedroom, two-storey semi-detached special adapted dwellings, (2) 2 No. 1 bedroom apartments, 12 No. 2 bedroom apartments, (3) 2 No. 3 bedroom apartments b) 27 ancillary car parking spaces within the development. c) The construction of vehicular and pedestrian access points to the site. d) Alterations to ground levels to accommodated the development. e) Varied boundary treatments and landscaping works. f) Surface water management will include hydrocarban interceptor and attenuation tank. g) All ancillary site works. In accordance with the habiats 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, 18 homes · Clare County Council, 218006
24 May 2021Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling house, detached store/plant room, covered car port, PV Solar panels, entrance, boundary walls, connection to existing public foul sewer and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21513
15 Dec 2020Conditional
for the erection of 14 no. floodlighting poles (5m high) with a floodlighting average spread of 7.4 Lux at path level and an average of 6.0 Lux at the lower car park and 37 no. (1m high) 6w LED Bollards
Permission · Clare County Council, 20954
13 Nov 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20857
23 Jun 2020Conditional
to construct a dwelling house with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20415
18 Jun 2020Conditional
to extend the existing club house building
Permission · Clare County Council, 20401
18 May 2020Conditional
to construct extension to front of private dwelling house, modify existing dwelling house, decommission existing septic tank and install new septic tank / percolation area along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 20309
27 Nov 2019Conditional
to a) RETAIN modifications to dwelling house, b) RETAIN private garage to rear of dwelling house and c) RETAIN site boundaries / site entrance / site layout as constructed along with all associated site works and services. Original planning reference P95/1017
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19925
6 Aug 2019Conditional
to construct an entrance dwelling house & wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19634
2 Aug 2019Conditional
to erect a dwelling house, entrance, garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19632
29 Mar 2019Conditional
to erect a garage for private domestic use and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19233
21 Dec 2018Conditional
to construct Loose animal shed and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 181071
31 May 2018Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse, garage, install an effluent system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18445
26 Jan 2017Conditional
for works to existing Club House Building, which works comprise of refurbishment, alterations involving removal of existing structural elements, and the extension to the existing Club House Building on the property.
Permission · Clare County Council, 1744
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 Fossa Beg.
Recorded monuments
- CL028-013 Children's burial ground
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.
Architectural heritage
- Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, church/chapel, 1885–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding four-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1890, on a cruciform plan with single-bay three-stage tower. Pitched slate roof with cross finials. Crenellated parapet and pyramidal copper roof to tower. Rendered walls. Rusticated snecked limestone walls with cut-stone string courses to tower. Pointed arch openings with leaded glass. Hood mouldings to ground and first floor tower openings. Oculi to transept gables. Pointed arch and Tudor arch door openings with timber matchboard doors. Retaining interior features including marble altar, reredos, altar railing, mosaic to chancel walls, raked galleries and cut-stone font. Rusticated stone piers with cast-iron gates and railings to site.
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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Fossa Beg.
- 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 Fossa Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Fossa Beg · An Fosadh Beag
- Area
- 2,319,751 m² (231.98 ha, 573.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomgraney, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Scarriff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Scarriff electoral division: 1,425 people in 573 households; 73% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughrim, Ballyminoge, Capparoe, Drewsborough, Fossa More, Tobernagat
- Placenames
- Fossa 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.