Clogher
Townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Clochar
- Area
- 36.4 ha
- 90 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 3,537 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher, from 261 m² to 132,970 m² (13.3 ha, 32.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Clogher 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
17 Jun 2022Conditional
the site location, site layout plan & as constructed dwelling and for permission for, a new vehicular, new pedestrian entrance & to permanently close off the existing vehicular entrance
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22689
19 Nov 2021N/a
the site location and site layout plan of the as constructed dwelling site
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211604
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI015-083 Enclosure
Description
Situated c. 20m W of a small river on an E-facing slope in poorly drained undulating pasture with good views to N and S. The monument consists of a sub-rectangular area (30m E-W; 20.4m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.1m; H 0.5m) evident from N to WSW. The interior slopes down to the SE. There is the remains of a shallow quarr on the W side of the monument. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 29 October 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clogher.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1248 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Clogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Clogher · An Clochar
- Area
- 363,802 m² (36.38 ha, 89.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Doon South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Doon South electoral division: 1,352 people in 507 households; 75% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlegarde, Gortmanna, Gortnagarde, Killuragh
- Placenames
- Clogher 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.