Island
Townland in the civil parish of Killilagh, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare
- Area
- 31.1 ha
- 77 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 3,997 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Island, from 538 m² to 172,883 m² (17.29 ha, 42.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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
No zone of a development plan covers Island 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
8 Aug 2026N/a
the development consists of amendments to previously granted planning application reference no. P24/60294. The proposed amendments will consist of 1) minor changes to window sizes / locations on house and garage; 2) minor changes to ridge heights; 3) addition of chimney / flue on western elevation; 4) minor relocation of garage; 5) change of use of garage to garage & home office. These changes relate to previously granted planning application (P24/60294) which consisted of the construction of a new single dwelling, separate garage, new entrance, driveway, new hedge at boundary, new septic tank, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, soakaways, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660510
21 Feb 2025Conditional
for a dwelling house and garage with proprietary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560079
27 Jun 2024Conditional
for the construction of a new single dwelling, separate garage, new entrance, driveway, new hedge at boundary, new septic tank, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, soakaways, bored well and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460294
25 Apr 2024Refused
for a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460178
18 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211229
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 Island.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Island.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Island.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Island.
- 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 Island with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Island
- Area
- 310,808 m² (31.08 ha, 76.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killilagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Lurraga, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Lurraga electoral division: 296 people in 98 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardeamush, Craggycorradan East, Knocknaranhy, Lurraga, Toornahooan
- Placenames
- Island 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.