# Gweeneeny, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clonrush, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 372,439 m² (37.24 ha, 92.03 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,901 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clonrush, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/clonrush.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Drummaan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7675 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31354 - Centre: latitude 52.943771, longitude -8.373436 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gweeneeny, from 437 m² to 87,252 m² (8.73 ha, 21.56 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2748409: 87,252 m² (8.73 ha, 21.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2748409.md - Parcel 1450366: 43,168 m² (4.32 ha, 10.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450366.md - Parcel 1477188: 32,480 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477188.md - Parcel 1499164: 26,222 m² (2.62 ha, 6.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499164.md - Parcel 1492840: 22,915 m² (2.29 ha, 5.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492840.md - Parcel 1456352: 17,237 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456352.md - Parcel 1433546: 16,402 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1433546.md - Parcel 1506213: 13,934 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1506213.md - Parcel 1516053: 12,746 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516053.md - Parcel 1513812: 12,417 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513812.md - Parcel 1482646: 7,402 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482646.md - Parcel 1487544: 7,302 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1487544.md - Parcel 1431150: 6,266 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1431150.md - Parcel 1513911: 4,310 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513911.md - Parcel 5272512: 4,280 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5272512.md - Parcel 1446263: 3,522 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1446263.md - Parcel 4975675: 2,739 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4975675.md - Parcel 4660483: 2,282 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4660483.md - Parcel 1465983: 2,139 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1465983.md - Parcel 5332211: 1,573 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5332211.md - Parcel 1505443: 1,323 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505443.md - Parcel 5921403: 1,114 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5921403.md - Parcel 1481177: 921 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481177.md - Parcel 1494558: 819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1494558.md - Parcel 5015269: 633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015269.md - Parcel 1479468: 522 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1479468.md - Parcel 5921422: 512 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5921422.md - Parcel 1429485: 507 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429485.md - Parcel 3332398: 473 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3332398.md - Parcel 5512151: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5512151.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare; 3 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - P1 Agriculture: Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 - R1 Residential (New/proposed residential): Whitegate Settlement Plan, Clare; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://clarecdp2023-2029.clarecoco.ie/stage3-amendments/adoption/volume-1-written-statement-clare-county-development-plan-2023-2029-51406.pdf#page=442 ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 5 Mar 2025, Clare County Council 2560100: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of an extension and modifications to an existing dwelling house, upgraded site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560100/0 - 22 Jan 2020, Clare County Council 2020: Conditional. Retention. to RETAIN extension to dwelling house, consisting of first floor accommodation. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2020/0 - 20 Sept 2018, Clare County Council 18749: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18749/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Gweeneeny. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gweeneeny. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Garda station/constabulary barracks, 1870–1890, Regional interest, registry number 20402158, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=CL®no=20402158. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/gweeneeny.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/gweeneeny.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/gweeneeny.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Gweeneeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Birchpark: https://everytownland.com/clare/birchpark.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/clare/cartron-30625.md - Cloonmohaun: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonmohaun.md - Furnace: https://everytownland.com/clare/furnace.md - Lakyle: https://everytownland.com/clare/lakyle-31697.md - Meelick: https://everytownland.com/clare/meelick-31850.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/gweeneeny - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/gweeneeny