Sroohil
Sroohil is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare.
Parcel 1477422
- Area
- 34,771 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 422 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Sroohil
Planning applications on this parcel
28 Apr 2026Conditional
of the existing detached Air B&B unit on site for continued short-term letting use and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Clare County Council, 26112
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inagh River Estuary 000036
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 20.7 ha
- 51 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 8,363 m² (0.84 ha, 2.07 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Sroohil, from 118 m² to 34,771 m² (3.48 ha, 8.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community (Community facilities)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
Ennistymon Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Apr 2026Conditional
of the existing detached Air B&B unit on site for continued short-term letting use and all associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Clare County Council, 26112
2 May 2025Conditional
the development will consist of: 1. Construction of a new 2-storey school building (1863.6 m2) incorporating 8 classrooms, general purpose room, library, offices, resource and learning rooms and associated ancillary accommodation; and a single classroom Special Education Needs Unit with associated facilities. 2. New site structures and features including retaining walls, cycle area, bin store, mechanical plant compound, hard play court, play areas, sensory garden, tiered seating areas, site furniture and child play installations. 3. New internal site pedestrian and vehicular transport layout including internal roads and turning areas, pedestrian paths, parking for 19 cars, bus and car drop off areas and right of way access points to neighbouring properties. 4. Realignment and widening of the existing north-western entrance to the site on the L1050 Ballinagaddy Road including demolition of existing boundary walls, hedgerows and gate and construction of a new set back vehicular entrance to the east of the existing entrance; with new boundary wall/fence, gates, landscaping and signage. 5. Alterations to the existing north-eastern pedestrian entrance to the site on the L1050 Ballinagaddy Road including repair/re-rendering of block walls to existing set back entrance (including shared boundary wall with Andersons Cottage, a Protected Structure) and replacement of gates. 6. Upgrading, repair and replacement of existing boundaries throughout including boundaries with neighbouring properties with rendered block walls, natural stone walls and metal fencing. 7. Site soft landscaping works throughout including demolition and removal of existing hedgerows, raising and lowering of ground, site soft landscaping including hedges, shrubbery and trees. 8. And all associated site works including site services, site lighting, subsurface attenuation tank and site hard landscaping. The total site area is 3.41 Acres. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the local authority with the Planning Application
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560241
9 Feb 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2188
15 Jan 2019Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P13/554 for development of 7 classroom school and school hall and associated site works
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 1913
18 May 2017Conditional
to construct a dwelling house & garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17369
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inagh River Estuary 000036
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Sroohil.
Architectural heritage
- An Teach Ceoil, church/chapel, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding three-bay double-height Gothic Revival Church of Ireland church, dated 1830, with central octagonal-plan two-stage entrance tower. Converted to use as hall, 1989. Pitched slate roof with ashar gable copings and pinnacles. Cut-stone crenellations and pinnacles to tower. Snecked stone walls with cut-stone quoins. Corner buttresses, date stone and string course to tower. Clock added to tower, c. 1900. Pointed arch openings with cut-stone dressings and hood mouldings. Timber sliding sash windows with Y-tracery. Replacement timber panelled double leaf doors with glazed fanlight above. Three-centred arch opening to rear having timber matchboard door. Retaining interior features including brass and marble memorial plaques, timber carved pulpit and tiered benches. Cut-stone gate piers with cast-iron gates set in coursed rubble stone 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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Sroohil, 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 Sroohil.
- 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
No address of the register names Sroohil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Sroohil
- Area
- 206,740 m² (20.67 ha, 51.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanaheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Ennistimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,514 people lived in 934 households in the Ennistimon electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 29% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castlequarter, Deerpark Middle, Deerpark Upper, Ennistimon, Glebe, Kilcornan
- Placenames
- Sroohil 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.