Rathbaun

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Rathbaun, from 1 m² to 64,948 m² (6.49 ha, 16.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 76 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Mixed Use (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 23 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C5Tourism (Tourism and related)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.2Utilities (Wastewater)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Water Bodies (General)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community (Education)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Lisdoonvarna Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 22 Sept 2026N/a

  to change use of the dwelling at 1 Dun Bhreandan from holiday home to permanent residential use and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26258

• 28 Jul 2026Conditional

  to revise the red lined site boundaries approved under planning permission 25/60178 at existing site

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660486

• 12 Jun 2026Conditional

  for the following works, (A) Remove the existing, single storey elements from the front and side of the existing hotel building facing on to the public road, as well as a two storey, and a single storey element to the rear of the building, (B) Construct a new single storey extension to the front and side of the building, facing on to the public road, (C) Construct a two storey extension to the rear of the building, and (D) Change the use, internal layout and elevations of the building, so as to incorporate, a Library / Tourist office, Café, and 4 No. one bedroom apartments, all with associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660391

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  to subdivide the property known as Marchmont/Cliff Lodge, install a new boundary fence within the property for this purpose, create new connection to public services and for permission to RETAIN the changes to the building previously granted permission under reference P07/2705 and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2689

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  to (i) demolish the existing derelict building on site. (ii) construct 3 no. two storey terraced town houses, upgrade existing entrance, connection to public services, provide parking, landscaping, boundary walls, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660061

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  for development: the works are to a protected structure reference RPS No 455. Planning permission will consist of change of use of 9 no. holiday home dwelling houses including 1 no. reception/office previously granted under Planning Reference P04/2594 to 9 no. permanent dwelling town houses including 1 no. residents Multi-Purpose Building and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25339

• 1 Oct 2025Conditional

  to (a) change use of existing building from former café to dwellinghouse (b) carry out fenestration changes together with all site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560598

• 22 Aug 2025N/a

  which will consist of change of use of 9 No. holiday home dwelling houses including 1 No. reception / office previously granted under Planning Reference P04/2594 to 9 No. permanent dwelling town houses including 1 No. residents Multi-Purpose Building and all ancillary works

  Permission, 9 homes · Clare County Council, 25272

• 1 Jul 2025N/a

  for the following development: for alterations to existing carpark; including proposed new parking layout to accommodate Multi-Use parking Hub (with mix of visitor parking, bus parking and 14 no. parking bays for short term stay camper vans), connection to existing services / utilities. PERMISSION for remedial works to upgrade the existing entrance area, with new boundary walls and entrance piers, associated landscaping, including all ancillary site works. The development is proposed within the curtilage of a protected structure, Lisdoonvarna Pavilion building

  Permission · Clare County Council, 25216

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  to change use of the dwelling at 7 Dun Bhreandan from holiday home to permanent residential use and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25150

• 23 Apr 2025N/a

  for the demolition of the derelict building on site and the construction of 3 no. Townhouses in its place, connections to public services, improved entrance to public road and all other associated site and ancillary works

  Outline permission, 3 homes · Clare County Council, 25121

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the proposed residential development will consist of the construction of 60 no. new residential dwellings comprising of: (a) 26 no. 2 beds, (b) 32no. 3 beds & (c) 2 no. 4 beds. Permission also to include for all associated ancillary site development works including SuDs system, car parking, site access, circulation, boundary and landscaping treatments as well as all utility services connections

  Permission, 60 homes · Clare County Council, 2560178

• 2 Apr 2025N/a

  demolition of the derelict building on site and the construction of 3 no. Townhouses in its place, connections to public services, improved entrance to public road & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Outline permission · Clare County Council, 2595

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the change of use of the dwelling at 2 Dun Bhreandan from holiday home to permanent residential use & all other associted site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24433

• 8 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the following development: to demolish part of existing extension and construct new extension to the side of the existing creche, add new solar panels to existing roof and proposed roof areas, minor internal alterations to main building, including ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24320

• 8 May 2024Conditional

  to construct 4 No single storey extensions to the existing Pavilion Building. The extensions will consist of the following: 1 Accessible Changing area and WC, M & E / Storage space 2. Proposed Storage Space linked to existing stage area; 3 and 4 Multi-Function Meeting and Office areas to front and rear; also PERMISSION to demolish existing stand-alone office unit at front entrance, Minor internal alterations to main building and replacement of a window with a new door, including ancillary site works. Please note that Lisdoonvarna Pavilion is classified as a protected structure

  Permission, 4 homes · Clare County Council, 24152

• 16 Jun 2023N/a

  for the following development: PERMISSION to construct 3 no. single storey extensions to the existing Pavilion Building. The extensions will consist of the following: 1. accessible changing area and WC, M&E / storage space; 2. proposed storage space linked to existing stage area; 3. multi-function meeting and office areas; 4. minor internal alterations; 5. replacement of a window with a new door, including ancillary site works. Please note that Lisdoonvarna Pavilion is classified as a protected structure

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23354

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  for the change of use of Unit No. 15 at Dun Bhreandain, St Brendan's Road from a Holiday Home to a Permanent Residential Dwelling Unit

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23347

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  for the change of use of Unit No. 12 at Dun Bhreandain, St Brendan's Road from a Holiday Home to a Permanent Residential Dwelling Unit

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23348

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  for the change of use of Unit No. 5 at Dun Bhreandain, St Brendan's Road from a Holiday Home to a Permanent Residential dwelling Unit

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23349

• 30 May 2023N/a

  for the following development to construct 3 no. single storey extensions to the existing Pavilion Building. The extension will consist of the following: 1. accessible changing area and WC, M & E / storage space; 2. proposed storage space linked to existing stage area; 3. multi-function meeting and office areas; 4. minor internal alterations; 5. replacement of a window with a new door, including ancillary site works. Please not that Lisdoonvarna Pavilion is classified as a protected structure

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23316

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  of 1. The changes to the fenestration on the rear and right elevations of the building resulting from the altered internal layout & 2. the first floor accommodation for the ancillary enjoyment of the occupants of the main building & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23154

• 8 Mar 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA), with associated site fencing, netting, artificial surface, floodlighting and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 23138

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  for development which will consist of alteration to site boundaries and provision of a vehicular entrance to serve existing dwelling house together with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22984

• 28 Oct 2022Conditional

  the development will consist of the change of use of Units No. 4, No. 10 and No. 16 at Dun Bhreandain, St Brendan's Road from Holiday Homes to Permanent Residential Dwelling Units

  Permission, 3 homes · Clare County Council, 22988

The 25 most recent of 37 applications.

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 Rathbaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Rathbaun.

Architectural heritage

• Corpus Christi Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-bay double-height Gothic Revival Roman Catholic church, built c. 1865, with single-bay four-stage tower and spire to left, single-bay single-storey chapel and sacristy to left and eight-bay side elevations. Six-bay single-storey flat-roofed side aisle added, c. 1900. Remodelled and polygonal former apse altered, c. 1940, to accommodate use as entrance porch. Pitched slate roofs with vents to main ridge, cut-stone copings and corbels and cast-iron downpipes. Pyramidal copper sheeting to spire. Snecked stone walls with cut-stone dressings and buttresses to side aisle. Pointed arch openings with leaded coloured and stained glass windows, having cut-stone Y-tracery to aisle. Pointed arch opening to tower with timber matchboard door, coloured glass fanlight and having carved hood moulding above. Cut-stone doorcase to remodelled entrance. Retaining interior features including exposed roof beams, stone corbels, cast-iron spiral staircase to porch, fluted chancel arch, marble altar and altar railings with brass gates. Cut-stone gate piers with chamfered corners and cast-iron gates to site. Parochial house to site.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850, with round-headed door opening to centre. Renovated, c. 1900, with shopfront inserted to right hand side ground floor and façade enrichments added including hood mouldings over openings. Now disused. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls to first floor and channelled rendered walls to ground floor with render quoins and string course between floors. Render pilasters and continuous hood mouldings to ground floor. Render letters added over shopfront entrance door. Render hood mouldings with decorative stops to first floor round-headed openings. Round- and segmental-arched openings with timber doors and fanlights. Segmental-arched window opening to shopfront, now boarded. Timber sliding sash windows with stone sills.

• Royal Spa Hotel, hotel, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced eight-bay two-storey hotel, built c. 1860, with former integral carriage arch, three-bay single-storey return and originally having polygonal bowed section to rear. Renovated and extended to rear, c. 1995, with four-bay two-storey return. Hipped slate and artificial slate roofs with replacement rainwater goods. Exposed rubble stone walls to front elevation, rendered walls to rear. Cut-stone voussoirs to former carriage arch opening. Replacement uPVC windows and timber replacement doors. Retaining interior features.

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 Rathbaun, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Rathbaun.

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

Name

Rathbaun

Area

450,012 m² (45 ha, 111.2 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoon, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Lisdoonvarna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,268 people lived in 302 households in the Lisdoonvarna electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughiska Beg, Ballyinsheen Beg, Ballyinsheen More, Gowlaun, Knockaunvickteera, Rooska

Placenames

Rathbaun 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.