Claddagh

99 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claddagh, from 178 m² to 159,787 m² (15.98 ha, 39.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Claddagh 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.

• 9 Apr 2025N/a

  The construction of a single-story, two-bedroom, self-contained apartment, along with all associated site works—including a driveway, footpath, drainage system, soakaway relocation, and landscaping—for use in conjunction with the existing residential dwelling on-site.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560132

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  development will of consist of: planning permission for a single storey extension to the rear of existing bungalow with all associated internal and elevation changes, decommission existing septic tank and install a treatment system with percolation area with all ancillary site works. Retention permission is required for existing 81.60 sq.m. garage and storage structure to side of existing dwelling with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360150

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• SL036-049 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In the corner of a field, on the N-facing slope of a low ridge. An oval area (27m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1m) W-ENE and by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 3m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.6m) ESE-W with an original width of c. 1.25m. The cashel is truncated by a field boundary at E. The N half of the interior is cut into the slope and the S half is raised to compensate for the slope though the interior still retains a slope down to NE. The cashel is covered with hazel trees. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-050001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the steep N-facing slope of a ridge. A roughly oval area (26m N-S; 31m E-W) terraced into the hillside, with the S half up to 1.6m below and the N half 0.6-1m above the external ground level. The interior is defined by a wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) composed of a core of small stones faced with large blocks of stone. The wall has been rebuilt in parts as a field boundary. The interior slopes down to N and there is a souterrain (SL036-050002-) in the NW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-050002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the NW quadrant of a cashel (SL036-050001-). An opening leads to a partially blocked passage (Wth 0.6m) roofed by stone lintels. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL036-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, in a hollow between two ridges and c. 40 N of a stream. The enclosure is levelled and not visible at ground level. Indicated as an oval enclosure (c. 15m N-S; c. 20m E-W) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map, within a small settlement, with houses immediately to S and W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Claddagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Claddagh, Aclare5 sales

Name

Claddagh · An Cladach

Area

2,230,199 m² (223.02 ha, 551.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacteige, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Aclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

233 people lived in 105 households in the Aclare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Belclare, Carns, Coolrecuill, Kilmacteige, Knockbrack, Knocknaskeagh (Co. Mayo), Knocks (Co. Mayo)

Placenames

Claddagh 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.