Clareen

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clareen, from 142 m² to 112,431 m² (11.24 ha, 27.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Clareen 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Clareen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Clareen.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In average pasture, in undulating terrain. Prominently sited on the level top of a low ridge, with a gentle fall of ground to W−NW towards an expanse of flat, lowlying wettish land (partly reclaimed), bordering the River Robe which is c. 300m to W. There are good views, especially extensive W−N over the flood plain. A circular area (82.4m N−S; 80m E−W) defined by a flat-topped bank (Wth 4-5m, top 1.2m; int. H 0.35-0.7m; ext. H 1.5-1.6m). A section (L c. 45m) of the bank at WSW−NNW has been levelled, its curve now evident as a cropmark, and a portion of the bank at NNW−N has been dug away, leaving an elongated quarry pit (L 22m ENE-WSW; Wth 9m; D 0.5-0.7m). A NNE−SSW field wall, now levelled, clipped the external face of the bank at NW. There is a hint of a depression (Wth 3.5-4m) immediately outside the bank on the SW arc, which might indicate a fosse, but it is not evident elsewhere around the circuit. The original entrance may have been at NNE where there is a gap (Wth 3.5m) in the bank, with expanded inward curving terminals. Two low-profile linear features (W rise 3.5m; H 0.1-0.3m; E rise Wth 4.6m; H 0.3m), possibly levelled banks, extend from the bank terminals through the interior to SSW. They are roughly parallel, with an intervening gap of 7.5-8m. Both extend beneath the NW−SE field wall that crosses the interior, and peter out in the centre of the rath interior –it is unclear if they ever fully bisected the interior. The E linear rise has an expanded terminal (Wth c. 7m) at its SSW end. There is another broad break (Wth 8.5m) at E, slighted on its N side by a field wall on a NW−SE axis that crosses the rath, slightly NE of centre. Elsewhere around the circuit, the bank is broken by several small gaps eroded by farm stock. The interior has a slight slope down to SSE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 December 2022

• MA111-003001 Burial ground
  Description

  In a rath (MA111-003----). According to local traditions, the rath interior was used for burials. There are no graves visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 December 2022

• MA111-105 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture, located at the base of a SE-facing slope, bordering an expanse of flat, partly reclaimed wet ground. There is a rath (MA111-003----) c. 100m upslope to W. A low, elongated mound (c. 20m NE–SW; c. 11m NW–SE; H 0.7m at SE, 0.4m at NW) overlain centrally on a NE–SW axis by a field wall. A concentration of small angular, possibly heat-shattered limestone fragments in a dark-coloured soil matrix was noted at the NE end. Covered in long grass, thistles and hawthorn scrub. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 March 2023

• MA111-108 Burnt mound
  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 Clareen.

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 Clareen, 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 moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Clareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Clareen · An Cláirín

Area

725,844 m² (72.58 ha, 179.36 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Coonard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

306 people lived in 120 households in the Coonard electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boleybeg, Knockalegan, Lehinch Demesne, Pollaweela

Placenames

Clareen 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.