Nooaff East
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish An Uaimh Thoir
- Area
- 52.5 ha
- 130 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 44,604 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Nooaff East, from 2,454 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 139,064 m² (13.91 ha, 34.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 · 3 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
4 Feb 2026N/a
for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house, garage and shed and to construct a replacement dwelling house and domestic garage along with a new entrance and front boundary wall, a new wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660050
24 Apr 2025N/a
for development which will consist of demolishing existing dwelling house and private garages and replacing with a new dwelling house, private garage and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25127
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Pouladatig Cave SAC 000037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pouladatig Cave 000037
Recorded monuments
- CL033-196 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A cropmark of an oval enclosure (diam. c. 50m N-S; 45m E-W) is visible on Digital Globe satellite imagery (c. 2010). It is not indicated on any OS maps. A field bank abuts the NE sector and extends NE into the field to the NE where a second curved bank is visible. These field boundaries (CL033-196002-) have some visible remains at ground level. This possible ringfort was reported to the National Monuments Service by David Galvin. The following image has been uploaded: CL033-196----_01.jpg Digital Globe satellite image. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 September 2020
- CL033-196001 Field boundary
Description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. A field boundary abutting the NE sector of an enclosure (CL033-196----) which is visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe imagery (c. 2010). The field bank has some visible remains at ground level and extends into the field to the NE in a fairly straight line for c. 100m before curving to the E for c. 25m. A second stretch of curving bank (L c. 40m) lies c. 10m N of this. The following image has been uploaded: CL033-196001-_01.jpg Digital Globe image. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 28 September 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Nooaff East.
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 Nooaff East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Nooaff East · An Uaimh Thoir
- Area
- 525,058 m² (52.51 ha, 129.74 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, Cragnagower, Inch More, Kilquane, Nooaff West, Shantulla
- Placenames
- Nooaff East 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.