Gaurus
Townland in the civil parish of Doora, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Gallros
- Area
- 67.6 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 83
- registered freehold, median 1,443 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gaurus, from 5 m² to 172,732 m² (17.27 ha, 42.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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)
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Water Bodies (General)
Ennis and Environs, 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
20 Jun 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwellling house, garage and waste water treatment system
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25201
19 Nov 2024Refused
to construct a dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment system
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24386
4 May 2023Conditional
to construct private dwelling house, detached garage, new site entrance, new on-site wastewater treatment system, connect to existing infrastructure services and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360141
7 Jun 2022Conditional
of 1. Change of use of existing domestic garage to a full day care service. 2. RETAIN and complete partially constructed extension to existing garage to be used as part of the day care service
Retention · Clare County Council, 22502
24 May 2021Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of 13 no detached dwelling houses including for all site development works, site landscaping and public service connections, some of which have been substantially completed under previous permissions granted on this site under Planning Ref P06-21019 and extended under Planning ref P11-21073. The development includes for the provision of a pedestrian access (including footbridge) from the application site to the existing Gort Leamhan residential development. the proposed development also includes the completion of provision of on-street public lighting on the public road at this location. The Planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement
Permission, 13 homes · Clare County Council, 21512
8 Feb 2021Conditional
for the following: (a) RETENTION of (1) The 'as constructed' relocation of the previously approved (Reg.ref. 17/257 & 18/167) detached bungalow within the original site together with (2) The 'as constructed' rear ground floor extension and (3) The conversion of the original integrated garage to habitable accommodation and (b) Approval for the replacement on site of the existing septic tank with an EPA 2009 compliant comprehensive wastewater treatment system
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2183
14 Aug 2020Conditional
for replacement of an existing dwelling with new dwelling and all associated site works. The new dwelling will be in accordance with that granted under Planning Register Ref. P20/10
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20556
16 Jan 2020Conditional
to change design of proposed renovation and extension of existing private dwelling house previously granted under Planning Register Reference P16-317 to include (a) demolition of existing side, front and rear extensions, (b) construct new single storey and storey-and-a half side extension and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2010
11 Jul 2019Conditional
to construct an entrance, dwelling house and wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19572
26 Mar 2019Conditional
to carry out the following works: 1. Remove existing tile roof over main dwelling area and incorporate two new dormer windows and one velux roof light to front of new slated roof. 2. Provide new slated pitched roof over annex to side of dwelling house ( north side) to include velux roof light to front. 3. Provide new flat roof extension to rear of dwelling house. 4. Remove old boundary walls to the south and west and rebuild as shown to a height of 1.8 metres. Walls to be built in stone. 5. New stone panels to be incorporated to front of dwelling. 6. Carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19222
18 Oct 2018N/a
to construct dwellinghouse, carport, domestic storage shed, treatment system, create new entrance to public road and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18826
13 Jun 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18482
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gaurus.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Gaurus.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_582 (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 Gaurus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Gaurus · Gallros
- Area
- 676,452 m² (67.65 ha, 167.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Ennis Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ennis Rural electoral division: 19,353 people in 7,011 households; 66% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghboy, Cappahard, Knockanean, Knockaskibbole, Newpark, Rosslevan
- Placenames
- Gaurus 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.