Croaghaun

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghaun, from 30 m² to 162,815 m² (16.28 ha, 40.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Apr 2026Unconditional

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268004

• 10 Apr 2026N/a

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268003

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 Croaghaun.

Recorded monuments

• CL033-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a hilltop in reclaimed pasture. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Hachured as a circular feature (diam. c. 25m) on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and clearly hachured as having a bank and fosse on the 25-inch map. It is not visible at ground level however faint traces on the N extent can be made out on a Google Earth image taken in September 2009 (diam. c. 30m) and a possible central circular feature (diam. c. 9m) can be seen on a Google Earth image taken on 10 February 2021. The following images have been uploaded: CL033-011----_01.jpg Google Earth image 2009 CL033-011----_02.jpg Google Earth image 2021 Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 16 June 2021

• CL033-012 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Situated on the S bank of a stream at the bottom of a steep N-facing hill. Indicated and named 'Toberinneenboy' on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. It was dedicated to St. Inneen (Frost 1893, 114; O'Flanagan 1929, vol. 1, 28), but is it not visible at ground level and is not known locally. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 May 2016

• CL033-058 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a slight fold on a NE-facing slope and on the W side of a laneway. The well is a rectangular drystone-built structure (dims. 1.1m x 1.1m) with two lintels and an opening (Wth 0.6m x 0.6m) at NE. Just to the N statuary is housed in a large concrete and glass structure (dims. 2.1m x 1.2m; H c. 2m) with a rendered wall allowing passage around it. The base of a finial cross (CL033-058001-) is cemented on top of this wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 April 2017

• CL033-058001 Cross
  Description

  Affixed to a wall at a holy well (CL033-058----). A gable-shaped cross base (rectangular base 0.46m x 0.35m; gable H 0.15m; total H 0.45m). The cross stem on top of the gable is hexagonal (0.17m x 0.16m; H 0.12m) with a square socket (0.085m x 0.085m; D 0.04m). The cross is likely to be from an 18th or 19th-century church. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 April 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Croaghaun, 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 high, 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 Croaghaun.

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

Name

Croaghaun · Cruachán

Area

520,869 m² (52.09 ha, 128.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamona, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Kilnamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknock, Croaghaun, Gortmore, Mweelagarraun, Shallee

Placenames

Croaghaun 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.