Maghera

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Maghera, from 153 m² to 209,921 m² (20.99 ha, 51.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Maghera 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.

• 23 Jul 2026Conditional

  to demolish existing two storey pyrite damaged dwelling and planning permission to construct a redesigned replacement two storey dwelling including all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660480

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560499

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  the development consists of RETENTION of alterations to granted application P19/865 including: dwelling position; dwelling alterations including additional velux windows to front elevation, additional door to west elevation, additional door and relocated window to rear elevation, relocated window to east elevation; all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21615

• 20 Aug 2020Conditional

  for (i) the house and garage as constructed on site in variance from that granted under P8/26123 and (ii) the extension to the garage for use as a self contained granny flat

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20571

• 7 Nov 2019Conditional

  the development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling-house, detached domestic garage, new entrance, installation of a new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site work

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19865

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct an entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works ( Site 1 )

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1837

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct an entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works ( Site 2 )

  Permission · Clare County Council, 1838

• 18 Dec 2017N/a

  to construct an entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17978

• 18 Dec 2017N/a

  to construct an entrance and access road to existing forestry block along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17979

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 Maghera.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Maghera.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Maghera, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Maghera · An Machaire

Area

2,704,336 m² (270.43 ha, 668.26 acres)

Civil parish

Inagh, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Ballyea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

781 people lived in 296 households in the Ballyea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahasla, Ballyduff Beg, Ballyduff More, Boolavaun, Clooncaurha, Garvillaun, Garvoghil

Placenames

Maghera 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.