Magheranraheen or Rockforest

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheranraheen or Rockforest, from 139 m² to 300,535 m² (30.05 ha, 74.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

• O2Cluster (General)
  Rockforest / Aughrim Cluster, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 May 2026N/a

  the development will consist of: the change of use of an existing dwelling house to use as self-catering tourist accommodation to support local tourism activity

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660320

• 11 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a loose equine housing shed with effluent storage tank, rainwater harvesting tanks, wash down bays and roofed manure pit with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660241

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, construct a new entrance, set back a section of the roadside boundary to improve sight distance and install an advanced wastewater treatment system along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20266

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  to RETAIN development on site which consists of the construction of a dormer residence and ancillary site works. The site entrance and the position of the structures is at variance with the site map submitted with the original application. The residence as built is at variance with the plans originally submitted for planning permission. An additional roadside gate has been provided for maintenance of the water treatment system.

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19697

• 22 Jul 2019N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house, entrance and sewerage treatment facilities along with all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19601

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL011-018 Enclosure
  Description

  On a fairly level NE-SW oriented ridge in pasture, with ground immediately to the SE sloping steeply down towards Ballyeighter Lough. Although not recorded on the first edition (1830s) of the OS 6-inch map – where the location is shown as tree-covered – the monument is hachured on both the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. The levelled monument is no longer clearly visible at ground level but can be seen in satellite imagery (Digital Globe 2011-2013; Aerial Premium 2013-2018) as a large, oval enclosure (est. diams. c. 70m NE-SW; c. 63m NW-SE) defined by a faintly traceable bank (est. Wth c. 5m) and external fosse (est. Wth c. 7m). A later field boundary overlying the perimeter from SE-SW is the townland boundary separating Magheranraheen or Rockforest from Treanmanagh to the S. The monument lies immediately E of a NE-SW running road which is named ‘Sir Donat’s Road’ (CL010-046---- / CL011-001---*) c. 530m to the SW on the OS mapping. There is a holy well (CL011-019----) c. 85m to the SSE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 January 2023

• CL011-040 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture at the NE end of a narrow spit of land extending SW into Ballyeighter Lough. A possible ring-barrow (max. diam. c. 14m) defined by a fosse and outer bank visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography. A second possible ring-barrow (CL011-041----) lies c. 18m to the SW.  Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025

• CL011-041 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in pasture at the NE end of a narrow spit of land extending SW into Ballyeighter Lough. A possible ring-barrow (max. diam c. 11m) defined by a fosse and outer bank visible on OSi MapGenie 2013-2018 orthophotography. A second possible ring-barrow (CL011-040----) lies c. 18m to the NE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheranraheen or Rockforest.

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 Magheranraheen or Rockforest, 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 water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magheranraheen or Rockforest.

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

Name

Magheranraheen or Rockforest

Area

2,062,583 m² (206.26 ha, 509.68 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ballyeighter, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aglish, Aughrim, Creehaun, Gortlecka, Poulmacrih, Rinecaha, Treanmanagh

Placenames

Magheranraheen or Rockforest 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.