Clare

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clare, from 10 m² to 142,074 m² (14.21 ha, 35.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a 2 storey dwelling house with domestic garage, septic tank and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed workd 263 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211980

• 4 Aug 2021Unconditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 190.4 sqm., Garage 48 sqm.)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211429

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  of: A) Front Porch. 2) A single storey rear extension. 3) Two left gable windows and a chimney. 4) Rear detached shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 10.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21221

• 8 May 2019Conditional

  for, a) a single storey extension to the front of the existing school with an associated play area b) internal and external alterations c) additional car parking to the rear of the school with a new vehicular access from Waterfield and d) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 187 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19687

• 12 Sept 2018Conditional

  of existing rugby club. The development includes sports pitch, training pitch and ancillary works and structures. Gross floor space of work to be retained, 110sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181290

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  of all weather pitch as constructed with all associated works and ancillary services and permission is being sought to remove Condition No. 4 attached to planning permission ref. no. 08/3368 granted on 23/02/2009

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17934

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: House 190.4 sqm., Garage 48 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17492

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA054-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On SW slopes of a hill. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 25m; N-S 23.2m) defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall, overlain from S to WSW by a modern field wall. There is a souterrain in the interior (GA054-014002-) and also a local tradition of a CBG (GA054-014001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA054-014001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a ringfort (GA054-014----). According to local tradition the interior was used as a CBG 'until recently'. No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA054-014002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the centre of a rath (GA054-014----). A slight depression contains the remains of a blocked souterrain running NNE-SSW. Two lintels are visible at NNE end. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA054-015 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  To N of the Owenriff River on W outskirts of Oughterard. According to O'Flaherty, this well 'was discovered by revelation about the year 1654' (Hardiman 1846, 53). It consists of a natural spring, dry at the time of visit, delimited by a D-shaped drystone wall (3.2m by 2m) opening towards NNE. There is a modern alcove on NNW side but the whole structure is now dilapidated and overgrown. (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 143a, 143g; Kelly 1897, 379; Killanin 1947, 124) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 The following image was uploaded: GA054-015----_01.jpg

• GA054-016 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Salmon Leap, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-row four-bay single-storey vernacular house with recent dormer attic, built c.1800, originally thatched, re-roofed c.1980. Pitched artificial slate roof with evidence of recent re-roofing, recent flat-roof dormer windows to front and rear, rendered chimneystack and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Limewashed rendered walls with roughcast render to rear elevation and with stone bench built onto front wall. Square-headed window openings with three-over-three pane and one six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation having rendered reveals and rendered stone sills. Replacement timber casement windows to rear elevation, and replacemrnt uPVC window to upper west gable. Square-headed door openings, timber glazed recent half-door to front, replacement timber glazed door to rear. Enclosed by low rendered boundary wall to front. Single-storey rendered rubble-stone outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof and rendered walls.

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with two-bay south gable and having two-bay two-storey addition to north end. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, stone eaves course and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and concrete and limestone sills. Square-headed door openings to front elevation, with timber battened door having small-pane overlight and limestone flag threshold, and glazed battened timber door to addition with limestone doorstep. Timber glazed door to addition with rendered reveals. Two-storey outbuilding to north-east having pitched slate roof and white rendered stone walls with square-headed timber battened vehicular entrance. Enclosed by rendered rubble-stone boundary wall having wrought-iron railings abd garden gate, and rendered piers with pyramidal stone caps and double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gate.

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c.1900, with recent single-storey flat-roof extensions to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to gable-ends, rendered copings, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods, and painted timber eaves. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, having timber casement windows to front with decorative diamond-shaped panes to middle of each casement, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled door with overlight. Front garden enclosed by rendered boundary wall with rendered piers and recent metal gate.

• Wellpark House, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house built, c.1870, with recent two-storey gabled addition to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof with lined-and-ruled rendered chimneystacks, projecting roughcast rendered eaves, and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls except for end bays of front elevation, front elevation also having vertical render plat bands to ends and flanking middle bay, chamfered limestone plinth, and limestone sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having timber sliding sash windows, tripartite one-over-one pane to ground floor with limestone sills, and six-over-six pane to first floor, all with raised render surrounds. Replacement uPVC windows to gables and to rear extension, with raised render surrounds and concrete sills. Segmental-headed door opening to front with timber panelled door having sidelights with panelled stall risers and spoked fanlight. Two-storey rubble limestone outbuilding to north-east with pitched slate roof with chimneystack. Rubble limestone boundary wall to road with rought-iron double-leaf gates to cut limestone piers from public road.

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 Clare, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_316 (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 Clare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Clare · An Clár

Area

319,809 m² (31.98 ha, 79.03 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcummin, and its townlands

Barony

Moycullen

Electoral division

Oughterard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,819 people lived in 1,042 households in the Oughterard electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Canrawer East, Carrowmanagh, Claremount, Tonweeroe

Placenames

Clare 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.