Toor

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toor, from 263 m² to 107,962 m² (10.8 ha, 26.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Toor 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.

• 17 Aug 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22741

• 20 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, road entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22356

• 20 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, road entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22357

• 23 Mar 2017Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17204

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 Toor.

Recorded monuments

• CL023-023 Enclosure
  Description

  At the top of a low wide ridge NE-SW ridge in fertile pasture with higher ground to SE and good views to NW. Hachured as a large oval ringfort (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1999 there were no visible remains at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 November 2025

• CL023-026 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.

• CL023-063 Fulacht fia
  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 Toor.

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

At the centre of the townland of Toor, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Toor

Area

1,609,854 m² (160.99 ha, 397.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfarboy, and its townlands

Barony

Ibrickan

Electoral division

Moy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

765 people lived in 302 households in the Moy electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aillbrack, Ballyvaskin North, Carrowntedaun, Clooneybreen, Drummin, Kilfarboy, Moy Beg, Moy More

Placenames

Toor 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.