Loughrask

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Loughrask, from 37 m² to 229,218 m² (22.92 ha, 56.64 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Ballyvaughan Settlement Plan, Clare · 20 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ballyvaughan Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Ballyvaughan Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Ballyvaughan Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  of the extension to the dwelling house and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 25270

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment, garage and new site entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360391

• 6 Sept 2023N/a

  to construct a dwelling with on-site wastewater treatment, garage and new site entrance

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2360358

• 27 Jul 2023Conditional

  of Boiler House, Storage shed and Green House

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2360281

• 9 Jun 2023Conditional

  for to Change of house design to that previously permitted under planning reference P21-1172

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2360202

• 19 May 2023N/a

  for change of house design to that previously permitted under planning reference P21-1172

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2360164

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, proprietary waste water treatment system connected to main sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211172

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 191017

• 30 Nov 2018Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18981

• 17 May 2018N/a

  for development which will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house and freestanding garage with site works and connections to services

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18399

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL002-056 Mound
  Description

  In meadow, on the level crest at the NE end of a low ridge from which ground falls gently away to NE to Lough Rask, c. 200m away. Not marked on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but hachured on the 1915 ed. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A roughly circular earthen mound (surface diam. 4.5m N–S; 4.7m E–W; base diam. 10.4m N–S; 9.7m E–W; max. H 1.3–1.4m at E and S) with possible revetting along the outer base at N . Small field clearance stones are dumped at the base and on the sides elsewhere. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 9 December 2020

• CL002-097 Enclosure
  Description

  In an unreclaimed island of scrub in an otherwise reclaimed area. A possible oval enclosure (diam. c. 53m N-S; c. 50m E-W) with an entrance at SE, overgrown with gorse and scrub visible on Digital Globe (2011-13). Noted and reported to the National Monuments Service by Ros Ó Maoldúin. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 24 November 2020

• CL002-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SW-facing slope in the middle of an otherwise tilled field. A subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by a bank and visible on Google Earth (image taken 20 March 2020). This monument was reported to the National Monuments Service by Jean Charles Caillère. The following image has been uploaded: CL002-099----_01.jpg Google Earth image, 20 March 2020. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Loughrask, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Loughrask.

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 Loughrask with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Loughrask · Loch Rasca

Area

1,088,958 m² (108.9 ha, 269.09 acres)

Civil parish

Drumcreehy, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Drumcreehy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

667 people lived in 183 households in the Drumcreehy electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 30% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Bishopsquarter, Killoghil, Knocknagroagh, Tonarussa

Placenames

Loughrask 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.