Clara More

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clara More, from 37 m² to 462,864 m² (46.29 ha, 114.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Clara More 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.

• 31 Jul 2026N/a

  dwelling as constructed (without restrictive conditions, similar to condition no. 2 as granted under 09/610), which includes minor revisions to include minor changes to internal layout, additional velux windows and revision to the site entrance together with all associated site works at the site

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2660680

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  the following developments: (a) a Christmas Village to include 8no. Log cabins for retail use, 2no. Open Shelter Barns, toilet block, Santa's house, animal barn, plant building and all ancillary works; (b) retention permission for 3no. Changing shelters and an Office building in the Fun Park and (c)planning permission sought for a universal access toilet and a wastewater treatment system for the Christmas Village development

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 24331

• 9 Jul 2021Conditional

  existing single storey two bedroom pitched roof dwelling and permission to carry out renovation and extension works to include the following: (a) construction of new first floor bedroom and ensuite extension with new stairs and a solar PV array on the roof of approximately 6 sqm (b) alteration and replacement of the existing bay window to the south elevation (c) alteration of the existing entrance porch to integrate into the new extension (d) alteration and replacement of porthole windows on the west elevation with new rectangular windows and the installation of new French door to the garden (e) along with associated site works

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 21816

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: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC 000733
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) 000733

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clara More.

Architectural heritage

• Clara Bridge, bridge, 1670–1690 · Regional interest
  Description

  Narrow six-arch road bridge over the Avonmore River, built c.1680. The bridge is constructed in coursed rubble with roughly fashioned voussoirs to the elliptical arches. There are ‘V’ cutwaters to the west face and the parapets have rough coping. The bases of the piers have been strengthened in concrete. The bridge is only 3.2m wide between the parapets.

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, but probably incorporating the fabric of an older single-storey house. The walls are finished in unpainted lined render whilst the gable-ended pitched roof is slated and has a rendered chimneystack. The entrance consists of a timber door and the flat-headed windows have two over two timber sash frames. The east side of the front elevation there is a single-storey canted bay with a flat roof and windows as before. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The house faces onto a road but is separated from it by a small garden.

• Catholic Church of Saint Patrick and Saint Killian, church/chapel, 1795–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay gable-ended Catholic church, built in 1799, with front porch and vestry to the rear added c.1880. The walls are finished in painted lined render with granite dressings to the windows and roundel and quatrefoil recesses to the front, and granite quoins to the porch. The pitched roof is slated. The entrance is to the north face of the porch and consists of a plain timber sheeted door. The windows are largely semi-circular headed and filled with Y-tracery timber sash frames. The vestry has flat-headed windows with two over two timber sash frames. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Internally the church consists of a single cell with plain plastered walls, plaster coffered ceiling and a tiled floor partly covered in carpet. The bench pews, confessional and altar fittings all appear to be late Victorian. The church is set in its own restricted grounds enclosed within a rendered wall with carriage gateway to the west front.

• Clara National School, school, 1895–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1899. The walls are finished in painted roughcast whilst the gable-ended overhanging pitched roof of the original section is slated and has a rendered chimneystack. The windows are flat-headed and filled with six over six timber sash frames and fixed multiple pane timber frames. The entrance sits within a recessed porch to the north-east corner of the extension. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The national school is set within grounds adjacent to the Catholic Church of Saint Patrick and Saint Killian.

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 Clara More, 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 Clara More.

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 Clara More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Clara More · An Clárach Mór

Area

1,312,104 m² (131.21 ha, 324.23 acres)

Civil parish

Knockrath, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Trooperstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

348 people lived in 116 households in the Trooperstown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhad Upper, Ballylug, Clarabeg North, Clarabeg South, Knockrath Little, Trooperstown

Placenames

Clara More 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.