Freaghcastle
Freaghcastle is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 164.7 ha
- 407 acres
- Land parcels
- 40
- registered freehold, median 2,151 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Freaghcastle, from 108 m² to 320,856 m² (32.09 ha, 79.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Freaghcastle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Sept 2026N/a
for (a) to re-construct the storm damaged agricultural storage shed with cattle housing together with all associated site development works on lands together with (b) permission to retain the recently erected steel frame as part of the replacement shed
Permission · Clare County Council, 2660633
22 Dec 2023Conditional
to RETAIN the existing cottage for use as Ancillary Living Accommodation including all ancillary services and works
Retention · Clare County Council, 23642
25 Jul 2022Conditional
of an existing domestic building and PERMISSION to build an extension that will join the existing dwelling house to the building to be retained
Retention · Clare County Council, 22667
9 Mar 2021Conditional
to RETAIN the dwelling house as build on site & PERMISSION to alter the existing fenestration & extend the dwelling house, upgrade the existing sewerage system & all associated site & ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21206
21 Aug 2018Conditional
to refurbish and reroof the existing dwelling house, convert the existing garage to a bedroom/bathroom, to construct a bedroom extension and associated site works.
Permission · Clare County Council, 18670
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 Freaghcastle.
Recorded monuments
- CL022-005 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.
- CL022-006 Barrow - embanked barrow
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.
- CL030-002002 Promontory fort - coastal
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.
- CL030-002003 Castle - tower house
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 11 December 2014
- CL030-002004 Midden
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.
- CL030-002005 Midden
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Freaghcastle.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Freaghcastle, about 1 in 10 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 Freaghcastle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Freaghcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Freaghcastle
- Area
- 1,647,463 m² (164.75 ha, 407.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfarboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 422 people lived in 160 households in the Ballyvaskin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drummin, Fintra Beg, Freaghavaleen
- Placenames
- Freaghcastle 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.