Gweeneeny

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gweeneeny, from 437 m² to 87,252 m² (8.73 ha, 21.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Whitegate 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.

• 5 Mar 2025Conditional

  for the construction of an extension and modifications to an existing dwelling house, upgraded site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560100

• 22 Jan 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN extension to dwelling house, consisting of first floor accommodation

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2020

• 20 Sept 2018Conditional

  to construct an Agri-Tourism business incorporating the siting of 3 No. chalets for private rental, the siting of an office / administration chalet, construction of a wastewater treatment system incorporating a pumping chamber for discharge of waste to mains sewer on public road and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18749

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 the townland of Gweeneeny.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gweeneeny.

Architectural heritage

• Garda station/constabulary barracks, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey constabulary barrack, built c. 1880, on a rectangular plan. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble stone walls with rendered walls to sides and rear. Timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-arched opening with timber panelled door and plain fanlight. Circular-profile gate piers with moulded cappings 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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Gweeneeny.

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.

No address of the register names Gweeneeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Gweeneeny

Area

372,439 m² (37.24 ha, 92.03 acres)

Civil parish

Clonrush, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Drummaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drummaan electoral division: 651 people in 251 households; 79% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birchpark, Cartron, Cloonmohaun, Furnace, Lakyle, Meelick

Placenames

Gweeneeny 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.