Poulroe
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish An Poll Rua
- Area
- 189.5 ha
- 468 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 27,316 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Poulroe, from 1,565 m² to 304,525 m² (30.45 ha, 75.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Castlequarter Kilkeedy Cluster, Clare · 8 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
14 Oct 2025Conditional
of the site entrance and internal parking area along with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560627
13 Sept 2021Conditional
the development will consist of construction of an extension and modifications to existing dwelling house with all associated works, using existing connections to wastewater system, bored well, and existing entrance from public road
Permission · Clare County Council, 21969
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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Poulroe.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Poulroe.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_634 (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 Poulroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Poulroe · An Poll Rua
- Area
- 1,894,815 m² (189.48 ha, 468.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Boston, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Boston electoral division: 358 people in 141 households; 85% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attyslany North, Attyslany South, Ballinlisheen, Castlequarter Kilkeedy, Culleen, Killourney, Kylecreen, Rockvale, Templebannagh
- Placenames
- Poulroe 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.