Freaghavaleen

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Freaghavaleen, from 53 m² to 174,078 m² (17.41 ha, 43.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Freaghavaleen 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.

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  for development which will consist of a dwelling house and garage with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24296

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  of the roof finish and alterations to the front boundary wall along with associated site works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 24213

• 19 Feb 2024Conditional

  of the existing outbuildings/structures and site entrance along with associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2452

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  to build a new dwelling house, install a waste treatment system and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211060

• 11 Jun 2021N/a

  - the development with consist of a dwelling house with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21609

• 27 Aug 2020Conditional

  to extend the existing cottage, connecting it to the existing annex and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20588

• 10 Jun 2020Conditional

  to install a proprietary wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20374

• 17 Dec 2018Conditional

  to RETAIN existing dwelling as constructed including front porch and side extension, to RETAIN existing garage, existing timber shed, pedestrian access gate and existing vehicular entrance as constructed, to RETAIN all ancillary site works, all within existing boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 181034

• 21 Aug 2018Conditional

  to refurbish and reroof the existing dwelling house, convert the existing garage to a bedroom/bathroom, to construct a bedroom extension and associated site works.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18670

• 23 Jul 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste treatment system along with ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18599

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  to revise the site boundaries and to change the dwelling house and garage drawings as previously granted under P10-204 and P15-66

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18128

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 Freaghavaleen.

Recorded monuments

• CL022-009 Quarry
  Description

  Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Named on the OS 25-inch map (1895) as ‘Clay pit (disused)’ and indicated as a pit on the 1918 OS 6-inch map. On inspection in 1998 this was verified as a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 14 October 2014

• CL022-010 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Freaghavaleen, 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 high, 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 Freaghavaleen.

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

Name

Freaghavaleen

Area

1,370,798 m² (137.08 ha, 338.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfarboy, and its townlands

Barony

Ibrickan

Electoral division

Ballyvaskin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

422 people lived in 160 households in the Ballyvaskin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummin, Freaghcastle, Rinneen

Placenames

Freaghavaleen 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.