Kilquane
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Cill Chuáin
- Area
- 36.5 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 1,747 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilquane, from 163 m² to 120,173 m² (12.02 ha, 29.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Ennis and Environs, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
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
11 Dec 2025N/a
to construct 3 No. 4 bedroom detached dwellinghouses together with all associated site development works and connections to public services
Permission, 3 homes · Clare County Council, 2560786
3 Oct 2025N/a
for development which will consist of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560609
4 Aug 2023Refused
to construct a private dwelling house, wastewater treatment system along with all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23434
25 Mar 2022Conditional
for a development which will consist of the following (a) 16. No. dwelling houses in total consisting of 2. No. detached two storey dwelling houses and 14. No. semi-detached two storey dwelling houses (b) all ancillary site development works and connections to public services
Permission, 16 homes · Clare County Council, 22263
2 Feb 2022Conditional
of the development of a detached domestic garage together with all other associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2270
25 Oct 2018Conditional
(Reference No. P18/497), to construct a dwelling house and garage, new entrance from public road, connection to public services, and all associated site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18848
21 Jun 2018Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, new entrance from public road, connection to public services, and all associated site works
Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18497
23 Nov 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17895
23 Feb 2017Conditional
to demolish rear sheds, side lean to shed, wall linking house to garage, construct single storey infill side and rear extensions to existing dwelling house and connect to existing septic tank including all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17128
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 Kilquane.
Recorded monuments
- CL033-062001 Children's burial ground
Description
Listed as 'Burial ground' in the RMP (1996). Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A subrectangular grass-covered mound (dims. of base 13.8m E-W; 11.2m N-S; dims. of top 11.5m E-W; 10m E-W; H 0.2-0.6m) with another slight mound (diam. 2.5m; H 0.1m) on top towards the edge at SW. There is one stone visible on the mound and another outside the perimeter at NE but other stones can be felt underfoot. There is a bullaun stone (CL033-062002-) at the site. (Westropp 1917, 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 May 2015
- CL033-062002 Bullaun stone
Description
Situated at a children's burial ground (CL033-062001-) towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. A bullaun stone (0.7m x 0.65m; H 0.45m) of Old Red Sandstone conglomerate with a single basin (diam. 0.45m; D 0.15-0.25m). (Westropp 1917, 4) Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 May 2015
- CL033-065 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on an undulating landscape. By the 1980s it had been reduced to a stretch of wall at S (L c. 30m; Wth c. 2m; H c. 1-8m) (Rynne 1995, 171-2) which still survives as an overgrown stoney mound (c. 30m E-W; 8-9m N-S; H 2-2.7m) but no facing stones are visible. Archaeological testing c. 10m S of this failed to produce any related material (Crumlish 1999, 17). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 12 April 2017
- CL033-066 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on level ground at the bottom of a W-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. Indicated as a circular walled enclosure (diam. c. 40m) only on the 1921 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is not visible at ground level apart from part of the perimeter at E (C 17m) where it is visible as a stone spread (Wth 4m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m) surmounted by a drystone wall attached to a road wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 17 April 2017
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilquane.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_479 (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 Kilquane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Kilquane · Cill Chuáin
- Area
- 364,805 m² (36.48 ha, 90.15 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Kilnamona, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilnamona electoral division: 959 people in 318 households; 92% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylannidy, Cragleagh, Cragnagower, Kilnacally, Nooaff East, Tullagh
- Placenames
- Kilquane 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.