Maghera

146 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 61 m² to 336,323 m² (33.63 ha, 83.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 72 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 Maghera 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.

• 12 Jan 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of a new dwelling house, shed, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2212

• 5 Dec 2019Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing Dwelling House to comprise of Livingroom, utility room, Bedroom with walk in wardrobe also PERMISSION for conversion of existing bedroom to En-suite including ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19956

• 2 Sept 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN a) existing entrance as constructed and b) existing shed/fuel store to the rear of existing dwelling house in lieu of garage granted under Planning Permission Ref: P06-754, including all ancillary site services and works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19689

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Old Domestic Buildings, Rylane SAC 002314
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• CL026-115001 Earthwork
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-115002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-116001 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-116002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-118 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• CL026-119 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Stephen's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1920–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic church, built c. 1925, with five-bay side elevations, projecting sacristy to right and half-octagonal apse to rear. Pitched slate roof with cut-stone bellcote, gable copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with buttresses, cut-stone quoins and feathered copings. Render plat band to entrance front. Lancet openings with render block-and-start architraves and leaded glass. Pointed arch door opening with timber panelled double leaf doors. Rubble stone boundary walls to site with rendered gate piers and wrought-iron gates.

• Scoil Náisiúnta Macaire, school, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1929, comprising gabled two-bay central projection flanked by recessed end bays. Pitched slate roof with brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with date plaque to projecting gable. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Rendered piers and iron gates set in roughcast rendered boundary 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

At the centre of the townland of Maghera, about 1 in 20 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 Maghera.

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

Name

Maghera · An Machaire

Area

5,913,026 m² (591.3 ha, 1,461.14 acres)

Civil parish

Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Newgrove, the unit of the census

Census 2022

281 people lived in 99 households in the Newgrove electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyslattery or Newgrove, Carrahan, Derrycalliff, Knockaphreaghaun, Rylane, Tyredagh Lower, Tyredagh Upper

Placenames

Maghera 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.