Woodfield
Townland in the civil parish of Kilseily, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Coill an Ghoirtín
- Area
- 119.2 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 5,987 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Woodfield, from 235 m² to 174,085 m² (17.41 ha, 43.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Woodfield 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Sept 2026N/a
for the construction of a single storey dwelling house site entrance, detached boiler house, on-site wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 26248
10 Oct 2025Conditional
of the following (a) the existing standalone garage, (b) retain the extension to the rear (south) of the house along with the conversion of the integrated garage to accommodation, (c) the existing dormer structure to the house main roof along with the conversion of the attic over the integrated garage, (d) the porch structure on the western side of the house, (e) elevation treatment and fenestration changes and (f) position of septic tank and bored well
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560625
15 May 2025Conditional
for revised site layout and revised house design to that previously granted permission ref. P23/60265.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560271
25 Feb 2025Conditional
is sought to construct a 2 storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and bored well including all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560085
5 Feb 2025N/a
is sought to construct a 2 storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, vehicular entrance, effluent treatment system and bored well including all associated site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560046
21 Jul 2023Conditional
for a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360265
17 Feb 2022Conditional
of amended site boundaries and updated location of Treatment System and Percolation Area as granted under P19/350
Retention · Clare County Council, 22138
2 May 2019Conditional
for the construction of a new single and two storey dwelling house including demolition of the existing derelict farmhouse on the site. The application also seeks permission for the demolition of some existing outbuilding, construction of a newly aligned access roadway from widened existing site entrance, new treatment system with polishing filter and percolation area, removal of selected boundaries and provision of new boundary walls and fences, new bored well, hard and soft landscaping and all ancillary site work.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19350
6 Sept 2018Conditional
for the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of existing farmhouse and also PERMISSION for the demolition of existing sheds and extensions to the rear of the existing dwelling house, refurbishment of the existing dwelling including new windows (including new first floor bay window), new roof thermal upgrading structural and damp proofing works. PERMISSION is also sought for a new access roadway from a widened site entrance, new treatment system with polishing filter and percolation area, removal of selected existing boundaries and provision of new boundary fence and walls, new bored well, hard and soft landscaping and all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18707
25 Jan 2018Conditional
to amend the site boundaries granted permission under Planning Reference P04-2210
Permission · Clare County Council, 1841
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Doon Lough NHA 000337
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Woodfield.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Woodfield.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Woodfield.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Woodfield, Ballynote8 sales
- Woodfield, Broadford6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Woodfield · Coill an Ghoirtín
- Area
- 1,192,191 m² (119.22 ha, 294.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilseily, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilseily, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilseily electoral division: 819 people in 272 households; 89% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahaclare, Ballykelly, Coolistoonan, Killaderry (O'Brien), Lakyle, Mountallon
- Placenames
- Woodfield 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.