Snugborough
Snugborough is a townland in the civil parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Snugborough.
- Area
- 92.1 ha
- 228 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 2,861 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Snugborough, from 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 901,445 m² (90.14 ha, 222.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Mooghaun North Cluster, Clare · 5 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
5 Sept 2019Conditional
for development which will consist of demolishing existing stables and construction of a milking parlour , dairy and ancillary rooms, drafting and handling facilities, waiting yard, meal bin, water storage tank and underground flow channels to existing adjacent slatted shed and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19703
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Snugborough.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Snugborough.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Snugborough.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Snugborough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_731 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Snugborough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Snugborough · Snugborough
- Area
- 920,762 m² (92.08 ha, 227.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomfinlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Tomfinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 681 people lived in 233 households in the Tomfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykilty, Caherkine, Knopoge, Mausnarylaan, Mooghaun North
- Placenames
- Snugborough 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.