Clonshire Beg

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonshire Beg, from 183 m² to 136,104 m² (13.61 ha, 33.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Clonshire Beg 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.

• 15 Aug 2026Conditional

  the relocation and construction of an all-weather equestrian riding arena measuring approximately 85m x 50m, including arena drainage and riding-surface build-up; a hardstanding area for loading and unloading; internal access roads; surface-water drainage infrastructure, including filter drains and soakpit arrangements; associated fencing, landscaping and boundary treatments; and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660946

• 29 Mar 2025N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560259

• 12 Jun 2019Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the existing equestrian buildings in the form of an open, roofed area for parking of machinery

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19561

• 28 Nov 2018Conditional

  construction of house, effluent disposal system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181153

• 9 Jun 2017Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17531

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: Adare Woodlands 000429

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonshire Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Tuogh Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch humpback road bridge over the River Greanagh, built c. 1800. Rubble limestone walls with tooled limestone voussoirs to round-headed arches. Concrete U-cutwater to east and V-cutwater to west elevation.

• Clonshire Lodge, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey over basement house, built c. 1800, having bows to end bays. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening having Ionic-style engaged columns with flanking sidelights and Ionic-style pilasters supporting carved entablature and spoked and cobweb fanlight over timber panelled door. Limestone steps to entrance with cast-iron railings terminating in pair of square-profile limestone piers. Pair of square-proflie rubble limestone piers to west having double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates. Remains of single-bay single-storey gate lodge to west. No roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with brick surround and limestone sill.

• Clonshire Lodge, kiln, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-plan limestone limekiln, built c. 1810, having single-bay single-storey block to north. Rubble stone walls with round-headed arch to north elevation having red brick voussoirs. Round-headed entrance to north block, west elevation with red brick voussoirs. Square-headed window opening to north block, north elevation.

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 Clonshire Beg, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonshire Beg.

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 Clonshire Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Clonshire Beg · Cluain Siabhra Bheag

Area

1,097,579 m² (109.76 ha, 271.22 acres)

Civil parish

Clonshire, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Croagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

833 people lived in 248 households in the Croagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonshire More, Garraunboy, Gortnagrour, Rower Beg, Rower More, Tuogh

Placenames

Clonshire Beg 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.