Toormore

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Toormore, from 128 m² to 48,319 m² (4.83 ha, 11.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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)
  Ruan Settlement Plan, Clare · 29 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ruan Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Ruan Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Ruan Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Ruan 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.

• 1 May 2026N/a

  to renovate and change the internal layout and elevations, including raising the roof of the existing on-site dwelling which is currently used for storage, and to install an effluent treatment system, all wish associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 26120

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  on the grant of outline permission (Ref: P22/518) to construct a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary works on Site C

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560453

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  on the grant of outline permission (Ref. No. P22/518) to construct a single dwelling house, private garage, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works on Site B

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560202

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  consequent on the grant of outline permission [Ref. No. ABP-316031-23 & Clare County Council ref P22/519 of outline permission] for the construction of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with ancillary site works

  Permission consequent · Clare County Council, 2460496

• 22 Dec 2023Conditional

  (Ref. No. P22/518) to construct a single dwelling house, private garage, vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works on Site A

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360579

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  of the existing site boundaries which differ from those granted under permission No P94-434 and for PERMISSION to install a new effluent treatment system, all with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23483

• 10 Jun 2022Conditional

  for 3 dwelling houses on separate sites with individual proprietary waste water treatment systems and percolation areas together with ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 22518

• 10 Jun 2022Refused

  for a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22519

• 29 Sept 2020N/a

  to construct extension to side of dwelling house

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20697

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, and garage, with connection to public sewer and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18351

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 Toormore.

Recorded monuments

• CL025-058 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

• CL025-061 Ringfort - cashel
  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 Toormore.

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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Toormore

Area

154,575 m² (15.46 ha, 38.2 acres)

Civil parish

Ruan, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ruan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ruan electoral division: 767 people in 276 households; 84% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacrogan East, Nooan, Portlecka, Ruan Commons, Tullyodea

Placenames

Toormore 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.