Racorcraun

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Racorcraun, from 165,799 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres) to 165,799 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Racorcraun 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.

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system and associated site works, including a new entrance and a private bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18330

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 Racorcraun.

Recorded monuments

• CL026-044 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the S and E-facing slopes of a hillock. Hachured on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A subcircular area (int. diam. 26m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a broad scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 6.5-9m; int. H 0.5-0.8m; ext. H 0.4-0.8m S-W to 1.2-1.4m N-E). Original inner facing (H 0.4m) survives at N and S. There is a cattle gap (Wth 1.4m) at ESE, but the original entrance is not evident. An enclosure (CL026-045----) is on lower ground c. 55m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-045 Enclosure
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of a hillock. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1840 OS 6-inch map abutting the townland boundary with Ballymaconna at NE. An oval grass-covered area (dims. 34m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.5m) and with a small area of rock outcrop H 0.5m) visible in the E sector. A cashel (CL026-044----) is on higher ground c. 55m to the SW.  Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 November 2025

• CL026-188 Pit-burial
  Description

  This record is for a pit-burial, excavated in 2002 as part of the Bord Gáis Éireann Pipeline to the West project (Licence no. 02E1153). Situated on a SE-facing slope near a hilltop with good views in all directions except NW. A single bowl-shaped cremation pit was excavated (diam. 0.34m; D 0.19m). The pit fill was a grey/brown fine silt with very occasional small stone inclusions (diam. typically 0.05m). Cremated bone was present as a discrete deposit near the base of the pit. Some charcoal flecking was also recorded. The excavated feature most probably represents a human burial of perhaps Bronze Age date. The discrete placement of the cremated bone suggests that it may have been held in a small container such as a bag. Some effort had then seemingly been made to mask the burial with old subsoil. (Hull 2004, 52, no. 198) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 October 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Racorcraun, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_579 (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 Racorcraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Racorcraun · Ráth Corcráin

Area

165,877 m² (16.59 ha, 40.99 acres)

Civil parish

Kilraghtis, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Kilraghtis, the unit of the census

Census 2022

576 people lived in 185 households in the Kilraghtis electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymaconna, Drumquin

Placenames

Racorcraun 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.