Gaurus

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gaurus, from 5 m² to 172,732 m² (17.27 ha, 42.68 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 49 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 33 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Water Bodies (General)
  Ennis and Environs, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 20 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwellling house, garage and waste water treatment system

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25201

• 19 Nov 2024Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment system

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24386

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  to construct private dwelling house, detached garage, new site entrance, new on-site wastewater treatment system, connect to existing infrastructure services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360141

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  of 1. Change of use of existing domestic garage to a full day care service. 2. RETAIN and complete partially constructed extension to existing garage to be used as part of the day care service

  Retention · Clare County Council, 22502

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of 13 no detached dwelling houses including for all site development works, site landscaping and public service connections, some of which have been substantially completed under previous permissions granted on this site under Planning Ref P06-21019 and extended under Planning ref P11-21073. The development includes for the provision of a pedestrian access (including footbridge) from the application site to the existing Gort Leamhan residential development. the proposed development also includes the completion of provision of on-street public lighting on the public road at this location. The Planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement

  Permission, 13 homes · Clare County Council, 21512

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the following: (a) RETENTION of (1) The 'as constructed' relocation of the previously approved (Reg.ref. 17/257 & 18/167) detached bungalow within the original site together with (2) The 'as constructed' rear ground floor extension and (3) The conversion of the original integrated garage to habitable accommodation and (b) Approval for the replacement on site of the existing septic tank with an EPA 2009 compliant comprehensive wastewater treatment system

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2183

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  for replacement of an existing dwelling with new dwelling and all associated site works. The new dwelling will be in accordance with that granted under Planning Register Ref. P20/10

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20556

• 16 Jan 2020Conditional

  to change design of proposed renovation and extension of existing private dwelling house previously granted under Planning Register Reference P16-317 to include (a) demolition of existing side, front and rear extensions, (b) construct new single storey and storey-and-a half side extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2010

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct an entrance, dwelling house and wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19572

• 26 Mar 2019Conditional

  to carry out the following works: 1. Remove existing tile roof over main dwelling area and incorporate two new dormer windows and one velux roof light to front of new slated roof. 2. Provide new slated pitched roof over annex to side of dwelling house ( north side) to include velux roof light to front. 3. Provide new flat roof extension to rear of dwelling house. 4. Remove old boundary walls to the south and west and rebuild as shown to a height of 1.8 metres. Walls to be built in stone. 5. New stone panels to be incorporated to front of dwelling. 6. Carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19222

• 18 Oct 2018N/a

  to construct dwellinghouse, carport, domestic storage shed, treatment system, create new entrance to public road and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18826

• 13 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and garage with effluent treatment system, new entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 18482

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Gaurus.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gaurus, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_582 (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 Gaurus with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Gaurus · Gallros

Area

676,452 m² (67.65 ha, 167.15 acres)

Civil parish

Doora, and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Ennis Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

19,353 people lived in 7,011 households in the Ennis Rural electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghboy, Cappahard, Knockanean, Knockaskibbole, Newpark, Rosslevan

Placenames

Gaurus 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.