Clare
Clare is a townland in the civil parish of Upper Moville, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 386.7 ha
- 956 acres
- Land parcels
- 130
- registered freehold, median 2,590 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clare, from 21 m² to 1,533,632 m² (153.36 ha, 378.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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
No zone of a development plan covers Clare 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
23 Jul 2026N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661366
26 May 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 05/4393 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660956
4 May 2026Conditional
RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660792
26 Sept 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561666
28 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, ACCESS VIA EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560852
29 Apr 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460596
25 Apr 2024N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460584
13 Mar 2024Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TOGETHER WITH HOUSE POSITIONING AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS WITHIN SITE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 20/51902
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460330
28 Aug 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351272
13 Mar 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350306
21 Feb 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250283
11 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051902
23 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051777
27 Oct 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051600
15 Oct 2019Conditional
(A) CHANGE OF USE OF DOMESTIC GARAGE BEING USED AS A CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH MINOR ASSOCIATED WORKS, (B) POSITION AND LOCATION OF EXISTING BOUNDARY WALL TO ROADWAY ON SOUTHERN ELEVATIONAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 08/70410
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951550
24 Jun 2019N/a
A MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE FROM A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A CHILDCARE FACILITY WITH MINOR ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950937
2 May 2017Unconditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT PLANT
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750660
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 Clare.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clare.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with central entrance porch to front, and outbuildings attached to gables. Pitched thatched roof, with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping. Smooth rendered and whitewashed walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with battened timber door. Outbuildings with pitched corrugated-metal roofs, smooth rendered walls and square-headed openings to either gable and to north and south-east. Set within farmyard.
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, with entrance porch to front, having extension and outbuilding to west gable and vernacular house attached to east gable. Pitched corrugated asbestos sheet roof with asbestos ridge tiles, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered cornice coping; thatched roof to extension to west. Smooth rendered and whitewashed walls with roughcast rendered walls to porch. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber panelled door. Set within grounds shared with attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with pitched asbestos sheet roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping and replacement rainwater goods, smooth rendered and whitewashed walls and square-headed openings.
- Clare Mount, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1870, with single-storey return to rear. Pitched natural slate roof with clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered decorative gable ended chimneystacks with moulded cornice coping over smooth rendered plinths; moulded stringcourse below paired decorative timber brackets supporting extending timber fascia and soffit boards, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered articulated banded channelled quoins, cornice stringcourse to first floor, and smooth rendered plinth course. Segmental-arch headed window openings to first floor with horned timber sash windows to end bays and tripartite window with one-over-one horned timber sash windows of equal proportions to central bay; stone sills, with smooth rendered sill course and smooth rendered continuous hoodmoulding with keystone motif. Square-headed window openings to ground floor with lugged flush smooth rendered surrounds and smooth rendered continuous hoodmoulding with keystone motif, two-over-one horned timber sash windows and stone sills. Segmental-arch headed door opening with stucco moulded architrave surround with key stone motif, decorative double-leaf timber panelled doors addressed via flight of stone steps flanked by smooth rendered walls topped with ashlar stone coping. Set within own grounds with courtyard of contemporaneous multi-bay single-storey outbuildings with pitched slate roofs with clayware ridge tiles, roughcast rendered walls and square-headed openings with matchboard timber doors. Located to the south-west of Moville, close to the Lough Foyle coastline.
- Clare Bridge, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over the Clare River, built c. 1860. Round-headed arch with rock-faced voussoirs with chiselled margins, and roughcast rendered soffit. Uncoursed rubble stone walls with rubble stone parapet with roughly crenulated rubble stone coping. Double carriageway to deck, paved with tarmacadam.
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 Clare, 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 Clare.
- 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
- Clare, Redcastle7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Clare
- Area
- 3,867,003 m² (386.7 ha, 955.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Moville, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Castlecary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 692 people lived in 245 households in the Castlecary electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrattan, Moneydarragh, Tullyally
- Placenames
- Clare 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.