Garracloon

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Garracloon, from 398,276 m² (39.83 ha, 98.42 acres) to 398,276 m² (39.83 ha, 98.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Garracloon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Garracloon 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL005-152 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on fairly high rocky ground with higher ground to the NE, E and S. Listed as ‘Cashel’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Westropp (1899, 180) mentions that Garracloon has ‘two old enclosures, fairly built, but much broken and a third (CL005-160006-), farther eastward, somewhat D-shaped in plan, bears the townland name’. It is unclear which enclosures are referred to as the first two. There are two conjoined enclosures indicated at this location on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map, however, on inspection in 1998 these were found to be irregularly shaped enclosures (N enclosure diam. c. 37m; S enclosure diam. c. 26m) defined by a combination of modern drystone walling (T 0.8m; H 1.2-1.7m) and some older stone facing. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 February 2016

• CL005-156 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in elevated rocky pasture with clear views from SW to N. Hachured on the 1839 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A roughly circular cashel (31m N-S; 30.5m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed battered stone wall with an internal ledge (H 0.55-1.2m; Wth 0.2-1.15m), extant at the SSE, WNW and from NNW to NNE. The wall survives best at the ESE (H 2.8m; Wth 1.95m) and has been reduced to a mound of collapse from NE to ESE and from SSE to W (Wth 2m; int. H 0.4; ext. H 0.6m). A gap in the wall at E (Wth 0.5m) is not original; the location of the original entrance is unclear. The interior is level with a low earthen mound in the centre and a stone pen (int. 7m NW-SE; 3m NE-SW) abutting the cashel wall at the NNE.    Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21 October 2025

• CL005-160006 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough elevated S-facing pasture on a small limestone platform (H 2-2.5m) with falling ground to the NW and S and commanding views to NW. Within a large field system (CL005-160001-). Hachured and labelled ‘Garracloon Caher’ on the 1839 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Westropp (1911, 355) recorded the ‘slight remains’ of the monument, noting its prominent position. A subcircular cashel (26m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a partially collapsed stone wall (Wth 1.15m; int. 0.8-1.2m; ext. H 0.6-1.7m). The external stone facing survives in part from NNE to E (H 0.6-1m), and a portion of inner wall-facing survives at the S (H 0.8m) and NNE (H 1.2m). The location of the entrance is unclear and the interior is uneven. Some stones set within the SE quadrant may represent the remnants of an internal feature. A drystone field wall is built over the cashel wall from SE to SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 22 August 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garracloon, 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 Garracloon.

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 Garracloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Garracloon

Area

397,952 m² (39.8 ha, 98.34 acres)

Civil parish

Rathborney, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Rathborney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

97 people lived in 27 households in the Rathborney electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 15% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boloona, Gleninsheen, Poulbaun, Poulgorm

Placenames

Garracloon 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.