# Keelty, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Coillte. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 204,426 m² (20.44 ha, 50.51 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,601 m² (1.36 ha, 3.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drumcliff, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/drumcliff.md - Barony: Islands - Electoral division: Ennis Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 19,353 people lived in 7,011 households in the Ennis Rural electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6279 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31417 - Centre: latitude 52.841468, longitude -9.006876 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keelty, from 105 m² to 71,101 m² (7.11 ha, 17.57 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2711009: 71,101 m² (7.11 ha, 17.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711009.md - Parcel 2711874: 45,947 m² (4.59 ha, 11.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2711874.md - Parcel 2710905: 32,738 m² (3.27 ha, 8.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2710905.md - Parcel 5238512: 22,747 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5238512.md - Parcel 1442082: 18,352 m² (1.84 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442082.md - Parcel 2710902: 8,851 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2710902.md - Parcel 5873446: 1,757 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5873446.md - Parcel 2710983: 1,253 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2710983.md - Parcel 5982915: 460 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5982915.md - Parcel 5873430: 105 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5873430.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Ennis and Environs, Clare; 5 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: Ennis and Environs, Clare; 5 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 - R1 Low Density Residential (New/proposed residential): Ennis and Environs, Clare; 4 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 - G3 Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape): Ennis and Environs, 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 - G1 Open Space (Open space, park): Ennis and Environs, 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 - G5 Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Ennis and Environs, 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 - O2 Water Bodies (General): Ennis and Environs, 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 - N1.1 Utilities (Road): Ennis and Environs, 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 30 Jun 2025, Clare County Council 2560393: Conditional. Permission, 300 homes. for a Large-Scale Residential Development (LRD) at this site at Ballymacaula, Drumbiggle, Keelty, Circular Road, Ennis, Co. Clare. The development will consist of 1. The construction of 300 no. houses comprising 14 no. 1 beds, 91 no. 2 beds, 164 no. 3 beds, and 31 no. 4 beds; 2. 1 no. creche/childcare facility; 3. The provision of landscaping, open space and amenity areas, including a linear amenity walkway, footpaths, cycleways and play areas; 4. The provision of 3 no. pedestrian connections to the existing public footpath along the N85, 2 no. pedestrian connections into Ballymacaula View Estate, improvements/upgrades to the pedestrian footpaths along Circular Road including a raised pedestrian crossing and pedestrian footpath provision along part of the Drumbiggle and Cahercalla Roads; 5. All associated infrastructure and services including 1 no. vehicular access onto Circular Road, car and bicycle parking, bin storage, lighting, 3 no. ESB substations, drainage,1 no. pumping station, boundary treatments. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and a Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the proposed development. The application may be inspected online at the following website set up by the applicant: www.ennislrd.ie. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560393/0 - 25 Aug 2022, Clare County Council 239000: Conditional. Permission. 1. The construction of 289 no. residential units comprising a mixture of 12 no. 1 bed apartments, 78 no. 2 bed townhouse/duplex/apartment units, 165 no. 3 bed dwelling houses, and 34 no. dwelling houses which will have an option of a 3 or 4 bedroom house-type; 2. A 400.7m2 creche/childcare facility; 3. The provision of landscaping, open space and amenity areas, including play/exercise equipment, a linear amenity walkway, informal play areas and local play areas; 4. The provision 2 no. pedestrian connections to the existing public footpath along the N85, 2 no. pedestrian connections into Ballymacaula View Estate, improvements/upgrades to the pedestrian footpaths along Circular Road including an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing and pedestrian footpath provision along part of the Drumbiggle and Cahercalla Roads; 5. All associated infrastructure and services including 1 no. vehicular access point onto Circular Road, car and bicycle parking and bin storage, lighting, 2 no. ESB substations, drainage and 1 no. pumping station, boundary treatments.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/239000/0 - 16 Oct 2018, Clare County Council 18811: Conditional. Permission, 99 homes. for a development comprising 99 no. residential units, ( 17 no. detached houses, 64 no. semi-detached houses, 18 no. terrace houses ), ancillary surface car parking; provision of a crèche, ancillary outdoor play area, staff car parking and drop-off zone; vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist access to the proposed development via a new junction on Circular Road (R474) and all associated access works thereto on the public road network; pedestrian and cycle link to adjoining lands to the south; traffic calming measures on Circular Road (R474); connection to existing public water supply; surface water drainage services including the provision of a surface water attenuation pond and treatment of surface waters prior to outfall; proposed foul drainage network to include construction of a foul water pumping station with emergency storage and rising main with discharge to the public foul sewer at Cahercalla Road; all associated site development and landscape works on the subject lands. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18811/0 - 23 Jun 2017, Clare County Council 17495: N/a. Permission, 148 homes. for development comprising 148 No. Residential units ( 60 No. detached houses, 82 No. semi-detached houses, 6 No. terrace houses ), ancillary surface car parking; provision of a crèche, ancillary outdoor play area, staff car parking and drop-off zone; vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist access to the proposed development via a new junction on Circular Road ( R474) and all associated access works thereto on the public road network; pedestrian and cycle link to adjoining lands to the south; traffic calming measures on Circular Road ( R474); connection to existing public water supply; surface water drainage services including the provision of a surface water attenuation pond and treatment of surface waters prior to outfall; proposed foul drainage network to include construction of a foul water pumping station with emergency storage and rising main with discharge to the public foul sewer at Cahercalla Road; connection of existing dwellings on Circular Road to the foul drainage network; all associated site development and landscape works on lands. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/17495/0 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 Keelty. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL033-170: Kiln - lime, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL033-170----. Situated on a NW-facing slope overlooking the floodplain of the Claureen river. A 19th-century limekiln was excavated in 2004 in advance of the construction of the N18 Ennis bypass (Licence no. 04E0025). The kiln was rectangular in plan (5.7m x 6.6m; H 4.7m) and constructed of limestone blocks, roughly dressed and bonded with lime mortar. The kiln had a flat upper surface with a centrally located flue tapering down to a horizontal furnace chamber. (Hull 2007; Bermingham et al. 2012, 96-100) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 13 July 2016 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Keelty. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Keelty, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_502, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_502.zip (ZIP). - 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/keelty.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/keelty.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/keelty.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Keelty 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) - Ballymacaula: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballymacaula-30221.md - Cahircalla More: https://everytownland.com/clare/cahircalla-more.md - Claureen: https://everytownland.com/clare/claureen.md - Cloghleagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloghleagh.md - Drumbiggil: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumbiggil.md - Shanvogh: https://everytownland.com/clare/shanvogh.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/keelty - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/keelty