Magherabaun

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magherabaun, from 122 m² to 374,007 m² (37.4 ha, 92.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Magherabaun 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.

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560573

• 18 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560575

• 4 Jan 2024Conditional

  for student accommodation at Satmya, Magherabawn, Feakle, Co Clare. The development will include 2 number self contained timber frame cabins, circa 25sqM each, erected on screw piles to the rear / South of the existing building (planning grant P21/357), connected to the existing wastewater treatment facility and all ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 242

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  for student accommodation. The development will include 2 number self contained timber frame cabins, circa 25sqM each, erected on screw piles to the rear / South of the existing building (Planning grant P21/357) and connected to the existing wastewater treatment facility

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23639

• 30 Jan 2023Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2345

• 25 Nov 2021N/a

  to: Construct a new 5 bedroom 2 storey dwelling house including access drive, attached garage, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and new bored well together with ancillary elements on the lands. Grid Reference 552858, 686234

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211258

• 15 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a new building for an Ayurveda and Naturopathy Centre on lands in their ownership. The single storey building will replace existing demolished stables on site and will comprise: a small teaching room, a treatment room and ancillary spaces together with onsite wastewater treatment. Accessed via the existing road entrance and driveway, 6 parking spaces will be provided within the existing stack yard beside the new building and the existing hay barn will be removed

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21357

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  to convert, alter and extend agricultural structure to dwelling house, install waste water treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20547

• 26 Jun 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN a music therapy room and PERMISSION to extend this room with an office/storage room, bathroom facility and wheelchair accessible entrance

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19511

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a single dwelling house, attached carport and garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19344

• 15 Apr 2019N/a

  for development which will consist of extending the music-therapy room with an office/storage room, bathroom facility and a wheelchair accessible entrance

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19283

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Natural Heritage Area: Maghera Mountain Bogs NHA 002442

Recorded monuments

• CL027-005 Mound
  Description

  On a S-facing slope, in a small woodland area, enclosed by rough pasture. There are potentially good views from this elevated area E-SW, although these are inhibited by woodland in all directions and by a similar mound-like feature to W, on the opposite side of a tertiary road. According to local information and folklore, this mound and that to W, are both referred to as ‘forts’. The tertiary road extends (long-axis N-S) between these two mound-like features, where it is cut (D c. 1.2m) below their base. This mound E of the road is depicted as a substantial, roughly circular scrub area on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The mound is defined by steeply sloping sides (Wth 9.25m; H 3.5m) and the top is a flat oval area (14m NNE-SSW; 9m WNW-ESE) which may have been utilised as a monument. According to local information, a significant assemblage named the Gorteenreagh Hoard was found three fields to SSW, on the opposite side of the tertiary road. This was found in 1948 by a farmer and is a collection of jewellery, thought to have been for a single individual (Cahill 1997, 84). It consists of a gold collar, two hair ornaments known as lock-rings, two bracelets and a small dress or sleeve fastener (ibid). These are examples of Later Bronze Age goldwork and the pair of lock-rings in particular are of the finest known in Ireland (ibid). The mound to the W, indicated on the 1842 OS 6-inch map with a dotted line, appears to be a naturally occurring mound. The following images have been uploaded: CL027-005----_01.jpg From SW. General view of mound, taken from tertiary road. CL027-005----_02.jpg From S. Cross-sectional view of scarp at W. CL027-005----_03.jpg From SE. General view of mound covered by trees. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 December 2018

• CL027-006 Enclosure
  Description

  On the break of a S-facing slope, in improved, wet pasture with excellent views of the surrounding landscape, particularly to S and E. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). This is depicted on the 1842 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular area of scrub. It is not shown on later OS historic mapping. It is not clearly identifiable at ground level. It consists of a roughly circular area (22m N-S; 20m E-W) of rock outcrop, located to W of a field boundary (long-axis N-S). The surface of the ground is uneven and there is flat surface rock and subsurface rock forming natural undulations. A low rise at NNW appears to be rock outcrop and it gives the impression of a levelled portion of bank. A rock on a break of slope at SSW also appears naturally formed. The interior is uneven, having further rock outcrop which is level with the ground surface. There are no obvious features on the E side of the field boundary. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 December 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magherabaun.

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

At the centre of the townland of Magherabaun, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

No address of the register names Magherabaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Magherabaun · An Machaire Bán

Area

3,880,652 m² (388.07 ha, 958.93 acres)

Civil parish

Feakle, and its townlands

Barony

Tulla Upper

Electoral division

Ayle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 142 households in the Ayle electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycroum, Bauragegaun, Cloonnagro, Curragh, Glendree, Gorteenreagh

Placenames

Magherabaun 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.