Ruanard

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ruanard, from 219 m² to 128,956 m² (12.9 ha, 31.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Clonlara Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Clonlara Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a general purpose shed to store feed, fodder and farm implements and a roofed manure pit solely for agricultural use and ancillary works, i.e. yards, drainage etc. utilising the farm’s existing public road entrance and access road

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560444

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  of as constructed garage, separate entrance gates on front boundary and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25220

• 17 Dec 2024N/a

  to construct a general purpose shed to store feed, fodder and farm implements and a roofed manure pit solely for agricultural use and ancillary works, i.e. yards, drainage etc. utilising the farm’s existing public road entrance and access road

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460645

• 4 Oct 2024Conditional

  a 10-year planning permission for a solar array. The development will consist of c. 330,000 m2 of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 13 no. single storey control cabins with associated electrical transformer units and hardstand areas, 2 no. ring main units, underground cabling within the solar array site and within the R471 public road to connect solar array field parcels, security fencing, internal CCTV, access tracks (upgrade of existing and new), upgrade to 1 no. existing agricultural field entrance and creation of 2 no. new entrances on the R471 and 1 no. new entrance on the L70382, 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities), landscaping and all associated ancillary apparatus and development works. The proposed development provides for minor modifications to the solar array permitted under Clare County Council Reference P22/591 / An Bord Pleanála Reference ABP-316043-23. These modifications comprise the omission of 1 no. single storey control cabin and associated electrical transformer unit, omission of solar panels and access track, and reconfiguration of internal cabling. The solar array will connect to the national grid and will have an operational lifespan of 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2460485

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 Ruanard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ruanard.

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_994 (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 Ruanard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Ruanard · An Ruán Ard

Area

712,707 m² (71.27 ha, 176.11 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltenanlea, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Lower

Electoral division

Kiltenanlea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltenanlea electoral division: 1,987 people in 660 households; 87% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlara, Dromintobin South, Knockbrack Lower, Newtown, Oakfield

Placenames

Ruanard 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.