Faunrusk

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Faunrusk, from 144 m² to 194,673 m² (19.47 ha, 48.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Faunrusk 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  of private garage, sunroom and minor alterations to dwelling house

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25374

• 28 Mar 2024Conditional

  for proposed development which will consist of the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, private well, upgrades to existing entrance, and all ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460137

• 1 Oct 2019Conditional

  (P18/302) the development consists of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public road and associated site works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19754

• 9 Jul 2018Conditional

  to renovate and extend an existing cottage, install a new wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18559

• 16 Apr 2018Conditional

  for development which consists of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system, new entrance onto public road and associated site works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18302

• 3 Aug 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, garage, waste water treatment system, entrance to public road and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17599

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: Dromore Woods and Loughs SAC 000032
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore Woods And Loughs 000032

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Faunrusk.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_537 (ZIP).

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

Name

Faunrusk · Fán Rúiscthe

Area

461,595 m² (46.16 ha, 114.06 acres)

Civil parish

Templemaley, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Templemaley, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,290 people lived in 431 households in the Templemaley electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarroll, Ballymulqueeny, Derry, Inishmore, Nutfield

Placenames

Faunrusk 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.