Clareen

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clareen, from 1,980 m² to 4,455 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clareen 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.

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20654

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 Clareen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clareen.

Architectural heritage

• Clareen, country house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan five-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1770, with extensions to rear. Basement area to front of house enclosed behind plinth wall. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with tooled limestone cornice. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door opening with open-bed pedimented surround with Doric pilasters. R.P 177 engraved above door. Door accessed up seven limestone steps flanked by walls terminating in limestone piers. Partially cobbled rear yard accessed through arched opening surmounted by bellcote. L-plan range of outbuildings and stables to rear yard with incorporating three-storey former malting house to east. Partially uncovered date stone to outbuildings - 1773. Former pigery to rear of house. Walled orchard to west of house. Three-bay gate lodge to road with hipped roof. Wrought-iron entrance gates supported by rendered piers and flanked by quadrant walls. Site enclosed by random coursed walls.

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Clareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clareen · An Cláirín

Area

627,468 m² (62.75 ha, 155.05 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurryely, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlisk

Electoral division

Shinrone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Shinrone electoral division: 1,041 people in 391 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardavagga, Curralanty, Derrymacedmond, Magheramore, Magherareagh, Shinrone, Tubbrid

Placenames

Clareen 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.