# Ooankeagh, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ruan, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 468,198 m² (46.82 ha, 115.69 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 468,667 m² (46.87 ha, 115.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ruan, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/ruan.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Ruan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 767 people lived in 276 households in the Ruan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6085 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 31961 - Centre: latitude 52.934246, longitude -9.020214 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ooankeagh, from 468,667 m² (46.87 ha, 115.81 acres) to 468,667 m² (46.87 ha, 115.81 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1462246: 468,667 m² (46.87 ha, 115.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1462246.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ooankeagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ooankeagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC, site code 001926, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001926 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex, site code 001926 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL025-037: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-037----. 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. - CL025-039: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-039----. On a gentle N-facing slope in pasture. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps and on the 25-inch plan. Listed in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996) as an enclosure. On inspection in 1999 it was not visible at ground level. Very low traces of some low banks are visible on Google Earth (imagery date 16 January 2011) along what would have been the S perimeter. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 November 2025 - CL025-041: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-041----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ooankeagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map did not answer. - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ooankeagh. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/ooankeagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/ooankeagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/ooankeagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ooankeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballaghboy: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballaghboy-30079.md - Cloonfeaghra: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloonfeaghra.md - Cooga: https://everytownland.com/clare/cooga-30789.md - Rinneen: https://everytownland.com/clare/rinneen-32075.md - Tullyodea: https://everytownland.com/clare/tullyodea.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/ooankeagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/ooankeagh