Clorhane

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clorhane, from 246 m² to 273,329 m² (27.33 ha, 67.54 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 Clorhane 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.

• 14 Feb 2024Conditional

  the (A) Demolition of existing derelict dwelling house, (B) Construction of a new replacement dwelling house (C) Construction of a new domestic garage, (d) Installation of new mechanical aeration unit and percolation system, (e) utilisation of existing entrance, constructing new entrance wall and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460119

• 22 Jun 2023Conditional

  design alterations to granted permission 21/561 namely the removal of the rear single storey annex, inclusion of a new single storey annex to side of granted dwelling, inclusion of 2 no. new windows to side and 1 no. to rear of dwelling and minor repositioning of dwelling on site along with all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23338

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, carport between dwelling and garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, access to site using entrance as granted under planning permission 20/74 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21561

• 4 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, upgrading of existing agricultural entrance to serve as site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2074

• 13 May 2019Conditional

  construction of a domestic double garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19472

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI012-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill. Sub-circular area (24.1m N-S; 25.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 0.75m) S->NW. Bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 1.2m), best preserved S->N, dips at E (Wth 2.7m), and is partially quarried-out at SE. Interior, under pasture, slopes gently down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI012-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop low ridge. Circular area (26.3m N-S: 26.8m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m) NW->E and defined by scarped edge (H 0.9; Wth 2.9m) SE->NW, with gap (Wth 6m) at ESE. Scarp quarried out at W resulting in ovoid depression (4.1m N-S; 3.2m E-W; D 0.55m). Interior, under pasture, dips slightly down towards centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI012-067 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  Wedge-tomb described by the Megalithic Survey of Ireland as follows; 'This monument lies about 3 km to the north of Adare, in the broad basin of the River Maigue. It stands on rich, gently undulating grassland broken in places by limestone outcrops. The outlook from the site is rather restricted though part of the Slievebernagh Mountains are visible towards the north-east and the north Kerry hills appear to the south-west. The monument is in a ruinous condition and is heavily overgrown. The southern side of a chamber is represented by two orthostats and, outside the western stone, is another orthostat representing an outer-wall. The opposite side of the chamber is represented by a fallen sidestone. A roofstone lies in a tilted position above the chamber. Two displaced stones stand at its eastern end. There are no traces of a surrounding mound. The western sidestone, at the south, leans outwards. It is 1.9m long, 0.3m thick and 0.9m high. The second sidestone here is erect. It measures 1.6m long, 0.35m thick and 1.05m high. The tops of both stones slope downwards from west to east. The fallen sidestone at the north is 1.8m long and 0.4m thick. If erect it would be about 0.7m high. The single outer-wall stone is erect. It is 0.9m long, 0.45m thick and 1.1m high. The roofstone measures 2.1m by 1.9m and is 0.5m thick. It rests on the two sidestones at the south and the fallen sidestone at the north. One of the two displaced stones at the eastern end of the roofstone is largely concealed. It measures at least 0.8m by 0.7m and is 0.3m thick. The second stone leans heavily to the west. It is 1.7m by 1m and 0.25m thick. The stones are all coarse, weathered, limestone slabs'. See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982) Date of upload: 4 January 2012

• LI012-131 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In deciduous woodland, on level terrain. Circular area (26.5m N-S; 26.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 1.3m). Bank lowers noticeably at SE. Interior surface, which slopes gently down to SE, is covered by ground ivy with mature deciduous trees overhead. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-132 Enclosure
  Description

  On SE-facing slope in deciduous woodland. Lawn of Clorane House adjoins to E. Roughly rectangular area (38m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank SE->N and by scarped edge (H 1.25m) N->SE. Bank (H 1.27m) best preserved SW->NNW. Interior, planted with mature deciduous trees, slopes down to the SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-133 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at S tip of limestone ridge. Oval area (21.2m N-S; 18.2m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 2.1m). Scarp is lower and more gradual at ESE. Interior, under pasture, has exposed limestone bedrock near centre. Remains of relict field system lie adjacent to NE: linear earthen bank (H 0.6m) runs on E-W axis for c. 26m forming corner with similar bank (on N-S axis) at its E end. Shorter stretches of relict field boundaries are evident to S and NW of site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-134 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in NW-facing slope. Circular area (30.6m N-S; 31.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m), which is best preserved N->S but lowers becoming scarp-like along NW and SW arcs. Interior, which slopes down to W, is under pasture. Enclosure is crossed by a field boundary, travelling E-W, just S-of-centre; it is covered in thorn bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-159 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  Situated in rough grassland immediately E of Clorane House. Outline of large roughly square-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 120m N-S x 150m E-W) visible on Google Earth photographs taken 05/02/2009. The irregularity or imprecise nature of the defining feature casts some doubt about the antiquity of this feature although the cultivation ridges contained within this enclosure appear to respect the enclosing element. See attached Google earth aerial photograph showing outline of enclosure. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Dr. Rob O'Hara Date of upload: 18 February 2020

• LI012-171 Field system
  Description

  A pair of trapezoidal enclosures/fields, one of which is more clearly visible on the current Google imagery (52.596244, -8.793153). This latter enclosure does appear to correspond to a smaller trapezoid marked on all three OS map editions. Compiled by: Matt Kelleher based on information supplied by Stuart Elder Date of upload/revision: 22 August 2023

Architectural heritage

• Clorane House, country house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1860, with projecting gable-fronted porch with pitched roof. Three-bay two-storey wing to side. Hipped roof with stone chimneystacks to main house with pitched roof to side wing. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with canted bay window to ground floor. Stable yard set around courtyard with stable boxes. Walled in kitchen garden.

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 Clorhane, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_817 (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 Clorhane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Clorhane · An Cloichreán

Area

1,910,085 m² (191.01 ha, 471.99 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Adare North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 210 households in the Adare North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasey, Capparoe, Cloongownagh, Kilcurly, Kildimo, Monanooag

Placenames

Clorhane 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.