Claras

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Claras, from 77 m² to 107,573 m² (10.76 ha, 26.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Claras 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.

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, provide a new sewerage system and a treatment plant, to provide secondary and tertiary treatment, and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2155

• 10 Jul 2020Refused

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, septic tank with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20148

• 27 May 2020Conditional

  of a sun room, storey and a half extension and garage

  Retention · Longford County Council, 20113

• 3 Mar 2020N/a

  retention of sunroom, storey and a half extension and garage COVID 19

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2049

• 1 Nov 2018Refused

  proposed bungalow type dwelling, detached garage, formation of entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18248

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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Natural Heritage Area: Forthill Bog NHA 001448
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• LF026-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In moderately drained pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The monument is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Claras, 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 low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Claras with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Claras · Cláras

Area

2,143,169 m² (214.32 ha, 529.59 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corrool (Brennan), Corrool (Fox), Cross, Drumnee, Forthill

Placenames

Claras 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.