Rathcraggaun

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathcraggaun, from 1,072 m² to 297,521 m² (29.75 ha, 73.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Rathcraggaun 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.

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house including attached garage and carport, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24184

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct an entrance, dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage, install a wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360451

• 17 Aug 2023N/a

  to construct an entrance from the public road, for use as a forestry access, with all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23449

• 19 Jun 2023Conditional

  to retain (a) Rear sun room extension (b) Omission of attached garage & bedroom No.5 from drawings previously approved under P00/68 (c) Construction of domestic garage together with all associated site development works and services

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2360217

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  the development consists of a domestic fuel storage shed together with ancillary site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 20754

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Rathcraggaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL033-105 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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.

• CL033-107 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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_456 (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.

No address of the register names Rathcraggaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Rathcraggaun · Ráth Creagáin

Area

763,538 m² (76.35 ha, 188.67 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

Ballyvoe, Cloonfeagh, Cragnagower, Magowna, Nooaff West, Tullagh

Placenames

Rathcraggaun 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.