Lavarreen
Lavarreen is a townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Leathbhairrín.
- Area
- 214.1 ha
- 529 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 7,196 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lavarreen, from 247 m² to 363,060 m² (36.31 ha, 89.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Lavarreen 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
29 May 2026Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse, entrance, driveway, garden room, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660352
13 Aug 2025Conditional
to build a new house, garage, install a waste water treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25263
10 Jan 2025Conditional
to demolish existing derelict garage, construction of new detached private dwelling house, infilling existing entrance from public road to create a new entrance in new location to the public road, install a waste treatment system, and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560007
9 Feb 2021Conditional
to build a dwelling house, garage, install a waste water treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2190
29 Oct 2020N/a
to replace the existing derelict dwelling with a new dwelling at a revised location within the site, improve the existing entrance from the public road, a garage, install a wastewater-treatment system and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20787
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 Lavarreen.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Lavarreen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lavarreen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Lavarreen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Lavarreen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Lavarreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Lavarreen · Leathbhairrín
- Area
- 2,140,780 m² (214.08 ha, 529 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Magherareagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 317 people lived in 115 households in the Magherareagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvranneen, Cullenagh, Furraglaun, Garraun, Gortnaclohy, Knockdrummagh South, Spaug
- Placenames
- Lavarreen 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.