Scool

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Scool, from 169 m² to 201,545 m² (20.15 ha, 49.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Scool 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.

• 4 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system, a new site entrance and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23433

• 17 Jul 2023Conditional

  to build a new dwelling, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23403

• 4 Feb 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system including all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 1963

• 29 Mar 2017Unconditional

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P12-306 to demolish flat roof extension and construct a two storey extension with flat roof link

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 17227

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 Scool.

Recorded monuments

• CL025-080 Mound
  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 Scool.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Scool.

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

Name

Scool · An Scumhal

Area

1,163,324 m² (116.33 ha, 287.46 acres)

Civil parish

Rath, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Corrofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corrofin electoral division: 1,362 people in 535 households; 72% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carhoo, Gortcooldurrin, Knockaunroe, Knockmore, Moyhill, Moyhullin, Rath, Shessiv

Placenames

Scool 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.