Clare

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clare, from 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) to 230,980 m² (23.1 ha, 57.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clare 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 Clare 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 Clare.

Recorded monuments

• RO028-167001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 41m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.5m at S to 1.3m at NW), with a rounded fosse (Wth of base 3.5-4m; ext. D 0.5-0.8m) N-ESE and S-W. There is no identifiable original entrance. A field bank circumscribes the fosse S-W, and a NW-SE field bank overlies the interior E of the centre. A D-shaped enclosure or annexe (RO028-167002-) (dims 48m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) to the NW is defined by field banks at SW and NE, and a curving bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-1.3m; ext. H 0.8-1.7m) at NW. There are pits (RO028-167003-) in the field to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-167002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 48m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) attached to the NW of rath (RO028-167001-) defined by field banks at SW and NE, and a curving bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.3-1.3m; ext. H 0.8-1.7m) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO028-167003 Pitfield
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope, just NW of rath (RO028-167001-) and its annexe (RO028-167002-) but not within either enclosure. An area of about 8 acres (c. 3.5 ha) contains pits (dims c. 7m x 3m; D 0.5m) placed c. 30m apart in lines c. 20m apart aligned generally E-W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Clare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Clare

Area

780,520 m² (78.05 ha, 192.87 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonfinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloonfinlough electoral division: 176 people in 77 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Carrowntornan, Cloonastiallas, Cloonelly, Cloonerra, Derryphatten, Lisheenanierin

Placenames

Clare 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.