Lecarrow Upper

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Lecarrow Upper, from 1,726 m² to 145,975 m² (14.6 ha, 36.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Lecarrow Upper 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.

• 11 Dec 2025Conditional

  and completion of an extension and alterations to an existing dwellinghouse and to upgrade existing wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560779

• 21 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560139

• 21 Aug 2024N/a

  for development which wil consist of the construction of a new residence, site entrance and access road, bored well, waste treatment system and ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 2460393

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Lecarrow Upper.

Recorded monuments

• CL028-006 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 10 December 2014

• CL028-006002 Bawn
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Lecarrow Upper.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Lecarrow Upper, about 1 in 20 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 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 Lecarrow Upper.

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.

No address of the register names Lecarrow Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Lecarrow Upper · An Leathcheathrú Uachtarach

Area

987,144 m² (98.71 ha, 243.93 acres)

Civil parish

Feakle, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Feakle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

452 people lived in 166 households in the Feakle electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clashmore, Feakle, Garraun, Lecarrow Lower, Rossanure

Placenames

Lecarrow Upper 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.