Laghcloon

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Laghcloon, from 276 m² to 191,391 m² (19.14 ha, 47.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Laghcloon 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.

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660125

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, driveway, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660028

• 16 Sept 2025Conditional

  of the dwelling house as built on site, which was originally granted permission under planning reference P22/672 and all associated and ancillary works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25297

• 28 Aug 2025N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, driveway, wastewater treatment system, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560526

• 27 Mar 2025N/a

  for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560155

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360252

• 27 Jul 2022Conditional

  to extend and renovate the existing dwelling, upgrade / replace the existing sewerage, improve the existing entrance & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22672

• 18 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct a private dwelling house with attached garage, installation of new waste-water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22151

• 26 Aug 2021N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, attached garage, entrance, driveway, and wastewater treatment system, to be accessed from the existing farm road with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21898

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 Laghcloon.

Recorded monuments

• CL015-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture near the bottom of a S-facing slope c. 45m E of a stream. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. A rath comprising a low subcircular platform (17m N-S; 14m E-W; H 0.25m) with three short stretches of earthen bank (Wth 1m; H 0.15m) along its perimeter. Wet ground around the platform may be indicative of a former fosse. The interior is level with no visible evidence for internal structures. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 15 August 2023

• CL015-083001 Church
  Description

  In a graveyard (CL015-083002-) in gently sloping pasture near the N shore of Liscannor Bay, with extensive views to E, S and W. Marked and labelled ‘Kilmacrehy Church (in ruins)’ on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map.    Noted by Sheehan (1982, 39) among the early church sites of north Clare and, according to Westropp (1900-2, 109), reputedly founded ‘about 580’ by Saint Mac Creiche whose hagiography, Beatha Meic Creiche, survives in as a 17th-century transcription by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (Plummer 1925, 7). However, De Paor (1979, 119) has challenged Mac Creiche’s historicity, arguing that the ‘saint’ may be a Christianised pagan figure. Ní Ghabhláin (1995, 48) lists Kilmacreehy as ‘a large parish church’ noting its inclusion in the Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland 1302-1306 when it was valued at 66s 8d. While the surviving fabric of the church is mainly later medieval in date, a section of cyclopean masonry attests the existence of an earlier church’s fabric in the structure (Westropp 1908, 205).   The church is a roofless rectangular and densely ivy-clad structure, orientated E-W, comprising a western nave (int. dims. L 11.91m E-W; Wth 5.78m N-S) with an only slightly smaller eastern chancel (int. dims. L 10.09m E-W; Wth 5.15m N-S) attached, and interlinked linked through a plain pointed chancel arch. A later, gabled entrance porch (int. dims. L 3.4m N-S; Wth 2.6m E-W) abuts the W end of the S wall. The nave and chancel are built of randomly coursed mortared masonry with stressed quoins, but traces of cyclopean masonry are visible in the lower courses of the N wall of the nave. The church’s N and S side walls and E gable wall stand to almost full height (side walls H c. 4m; E gable c. 6m) but the S side wall of the chancel collapsed in the 19th century and was partially rebuilt (H 2m). The W gable wall stands only to the height of the side walls but, according to Curry in the OS Letters 1839 (Comber 1997, 92), it had ‘a broken belfry on its top.’ The later porch is constructed from roughly coursed mortared limestone rubble (wall T 0.85m; S gable H 2.3m; E wall H 2m) with fragments of brick around the S-facing door.   The church is entered through a round-headed, chamfered and punch-dressed doorway (Wth 0.87m; H 1.42m) in the S gable wall of the porch. There is a single-light ogee-headed window in its E wall, a blocked window in its W wall, and a small single light of undressed stone above the doorway. Portlaw (1874, 13) reported that the porch had been ‘converted into a tomb or burying place of a branch of the McDonagh family’ and noted an inscribed memorial to the family. Curry had previously, in 1839, (Comber 1997, 93) recorded the following inscription:   ‘Here resteth Nick, whose fame no age can blot The Chief, McDonagh in old Heber’s lot [i.e. in Leath Mhogha] Who while on earth reviv’d ye ancient fame Of his own line and yt of all ye name. His fixt religion was his actions guide, And as he lived beloved, lamented died. Erected in the year of our Lord God, 1745.’   Opposite the porch door, the earlier doorway in the nave’s S wall is pointed-arched and set in a rectangular embrasure with a hanging eye in the upper W corner, and there is a projecting stoup (diam. 0.29m) immediately inside to the E.    The nave is lit by single square-headed window (Wth 1.76m; H 1.35m) in a flat-headed embrasure in the S wall. Externally, two projecting corbels/tie-stones on the outer face of the nave’s N wall suggest that a structure may once have been attached outside. Externally, drain holes are visible just below the coping on the N walls of both the nave and chancel.   The chancel is lit by a twin-light ogee-headed window (Wth 1.38m; H 2.4m) in a round-arched embrasure with external square hood moulding in the E gable wall.  Small hanging eyes and spud-stones to carry shutters survive and an unusual bolt-hole projection is visible in the central mullion. Curry in 1839 (Comber 1997, 93) recorded two windows in the S wall of the chancel, but these were not retained when this wall was rebuilt. They were apparently single lights because Portlaw (1874, 13) described them as resembling ‘exactly one of the lights of the east window’.   The N wall of the chancel contains a niche with a canopied tomb. The feature is arched with a pair of cinquefoil arches and an intervening quatrefoil ope. The hood-moulding has the head of a bishop at its apex, now concealed by ivy, with animal heads decorating its terminals. An accompanying inscription is illegible. Westropp (1908, 207) recorded that the monument was reputed to be the tomb of Mac Creiche with the mitred head being a likeness of the saint.    A second canopied tomb or sedilia was formerly present in the S wall of the chancel. It was described by Curry (Comber 1997, 93) as a ‘pointed niche in the wall, built of very well cut stones… surmounted by a head in stone dressed in a flat cap’ Based on Curry’s description and some surviving architectural fragments, Westropp (1908, 204) made a reconstruction drawing of the feature showing a pair of pointed arches with a Solomonic (barley-sugar) mullion and a hood moulding with label stops decorated with serpents with bars in their mouths. The head had previously been identified by Mason (1814-19, vol. 1, 489) as being a representation of ‘Saint Manaheen’. Fragments of this tomb (Wth 2.2m; H 2.3m; D 0.4m) have been rebuilt into the S wall of the chancel.  Also in the S wall of the chancel, near the E end, is pair of aumbries; the lower slightly larger (Wth 0.4m; H 0.35m; D 0.4m) than the upper (Wth 0.28m; H 0.24m; D 0.44m).  A rectangular recess (H 1.5m; Wth 0.8m; D 0.4m) in the N wall of the chancel, beside the chancel arch, may be a blocked-up doorway.    The interior of the church is filled with grave slabs and headstones.    There is a bullaun stone (CL015-083003-) W of the church within the graveyard. ‘Tobermacrehy’ (CL015-081----), a holy well associated with Saint Mac Creiche is c. 465m to the W and ‘Mac Creehy’s Bed’ (CL015-084----), a natural outcrop of rock in Liscannor Bay with folkloric association with the saint (De Paor 1979, 95) is c. 405m to the S.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-083002 Graveyard
  Description

  In gently sloping pasture on the N-shore of Liscannor Bay with extensive views to E, S and W. Shown as an L-shaped graveyard wrapped around to the E, S and W of ‘Kilmacrehy Church’ (CL015-083001-) and labelled ‘Burial Gd’ on the first (1840) and ‘Graveyard’ on the Cassini (1916) edition of the OS 6-inch map. An L-shaped graveyard (dims. 52m E-W; 24m N-S) is enclosed by a mortared limestone wall. Burials marked by ledger slabs and headstones are concentrated to the S and E of the church. Two mausolea stand to the SE of the church, and a third abutts the W wall of the church porch. The graveyard has been extended to the NW, S and W.    There is a bullaun stone (CL015-083003-) within the graveyard, c. 15 W of the church. Tobermacrehy (CL015-081----), a holy well associated with Saint Mac Creiche is c. 465m to the W and ‘Mac Creehy’s Bed’ (CL015-084----), a natural outcrop of rock in Liscannor Bay with folkloric association with the saint (De Paor 1979, 95) is c. 405m to the S.    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-083003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  At the W end of the graveyard (CL015-083002-) enclosing ‘Kilmacrehy Church’ (CL015-083001-). A roughly hemispherical stone (diam. c. 0.5m) has a circular depression in its upper surface (diam. c. 0.2m).    Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell   Date of upload: 8-10-2025

• CL015-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying marshy pasture overlooked by higher ground to N, c. 38m N of a SW-flowing stream that forms the townland boundary with Ballyellery and with views across Liscannor Bay to the S. Hachured on both the first (1840) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Classified as an enclosure in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (19.6m E-W; 18m N-S) is defined by the remains of an inner earthen bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.15-0.55m) from W-NW, which has been reduced to a low scarp (H 0.2m) elsewhere, and by a shallow outer fosse (Wth 2.2m; ext. D 0.15-0.2m) which is water-logged and filled with reeds and rushes. The interior is level and covered in reeds. An enclosure (CL015-150----) lies c.105m to the NNE.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell    Date of upload: 7-10-2025

• CL015-150 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pasture. A possible enclosure defined by an arc of bank N-SW (chord c. 56m) visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018). A ringfort (CL015-085----) lies c. 110m to the SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Laghcloon, 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 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 Laghcloon.

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 Laghcloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Laghcloon

Area

1,105,097 m² (110.51 ha, 273.08 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrehy, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Liscannor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Liscannor electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyellery, Ballyvorda, Caherycahill, Laghvally, Liscannor

Placenames

Laghcloon 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.