Ranaghan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ranaghan, from 43 m² to 354,486 m² (35.45 ha, 87.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ranaghan 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ranaghan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-102 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a knoll (on the 100’ contour) in scrub-covered limestone pavement, overlooking Lough George c. 330m to the W. Classified as an ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Hachured on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and recorded as an enclosure on the later, Cassini edition (1916). An oval cashel (c. 35m N-S; c. 26m E-W) is defined by a largely rebuilt drystone stone wall (Wth 1-1.8m; H 1-1.2m) standing on and flanked by a spread of collapsed rubble on both the inside (Wth 1-1.2m) and outside (Wth 2m).  Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture at the W end of a low NE-SW ridge. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. A circular bivallate rath (int. diams. 24.3m E-W; 22.8m N-S; ext. diam. 43m) is defined by a broad inner earthen bank, a fosse and a second, outer bank. The inner bank (Wth 6-7m; int. H 0.9-1.3m; ext. H 1.6-2m) has internal stone facing traceable intermittently from E-S-NW. The fosse (Wth at top 5.6-6m; Wth at base 1-2m; ext. D 1m) is round-bottomed and is girdled by the outer bank (Wth c. 2m; H 0.5m) which is best preserved at NW and surmounted for nearly its full course, from N-E-S-W, by a later drystone wall. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2m) at ENE. ‘Kilranaghan’ enclosure (CL017-104002-), containing a burial ground (CL017-104----) lies c. 100m to the E.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-104 Burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on a gentle S-facing slope. Marked and labelled ‘Kilranaghan’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, and hachured and labelled ‘Kilranaghan Grave Yard’ on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the map. O’Curry noted ‘a small burial place for children’ in this townland (Comber ed. 1997, 53). A burial ground lies within a subcircular earthen enclosure (CL017-104002-) which is itself enclosed by a later rectilinear enclosure defined by partially hedged, wall with an entrance on its S side. The burial ground contains c. 15 headstones dating from the 1920s. A memorial on the SE wall records that the burial ground was also used during the Great Famine. There is a bullaun stone (CL017-105----) c. 65m to the E and a rath stands c. 80m to the W (CL017-103----).   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-104002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a gentle S-facing slope. Marked and labelled ‘Kilranaghan’ on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map, and hachured and labelled ‘Kilranaghan Grave Yard’ on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the map. Westropp (1913, 236) described the site as a ‘large levelled ring’. A large subcircular enclosure (int. diams. 51m E-W; 44m N-S; ext. diams. 61.5m E-W; 55m N-S) is defined by a low wide bank (Wth 4.5-6.5m; H 0.2-0.3m). The interior contains a burial ground (CL017-104----). There is a bullaun stone (CL017-105----) c. 65m to the E and a rath (CL017-103----) stands c. 90m to the W     Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-105 Bullaun stone
  Description

  On a farm lane c. 65m E of ‘Kilranaghan’ enclosure (CL017-104002-) and burial ground (CL017-104----). Marked and labelled ‘Bullaun’ on the Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map. A globular conglomerate boulder (L 0.7m; Wth 0.65m; H. 0.4m) with a single circular hollow (diam. 0.36-0.38m; D 0.15m). The monument originally lay to the E of the farmhouse before being moved to its present location.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 21-10-2025

• CL017-239 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in pasture. Faint remains or cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 57m) defined by a bank and fosse visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018) and on Google Earth (26 March 2022). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ranaghan

Area

1,710,896 m² (171.09 ha, 422.77 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Muckanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Muckanagh electoral division: 374 people in 127 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyogan Beg, Ballyogan More, Ballyteige East, Garvillaun, Kells, Teermulmoney, Teernea, Turkenagh

Placenames

Ranaghan 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.