Licknaun

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Licknaun, from 428 m² to 634,782 m² (63.48 ha, 156.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Licknaun 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  to renovate and change the internal layout and elevations of the existing dwelling including raising its roof, construct an extension to the dwelling linking it to an existing on-site shed, demolish part of the shed, renovate and change the layout and elevations of the remainder of the shed and use it as part of the dwelling, install a replacement effluent treatment system and extend the existing vehicle entrance to the dwelling, all with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 267

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  of additional windows to the Front, Rear and South facing sides of dwelling, RETENTION of the replacement of the garage door with a window and door to the front of the dwelling, RETENTION of changes to the plaster design finish, RETENTION of the reduced ridge height and RETENTION of the removal of the roof window to the front of the dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211364

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 Licknaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL025-205 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• CL025-206 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight W-facing slope in pasture. Hachured on the OS 1840 6-inch map as a large D-shaped enclosure (c. 38m N-S) with a straight S side (L 50m). The townland boundary juts out to S to respect the straight S side. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 there was no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney    Date of upload: 1 December 2025

• CL025-207 Ringfort - cashel
  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 Licknaun.

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

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_499 (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.

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

Name

Licknaun · Leicneán

Area

1,315,932 m² (131.59 ha, 325.17 acres)

Civil parish

Templemaley, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Templemaley, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Templemaley electoral division: 1,290 people in 431 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardcarney, Ballygriffy South, Ballyhee, Reaskaun, Rinerrinagh, Teeronaun

Placenames

Licknaun 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.