# Clara More, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockrath, barony of Ballinacor North, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Clárach Mór. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,312,104 m² (131.21 ha, 324.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,746 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockrath, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/knockrath.md - Barony: Ballinacor North - Electoral division: Trooperstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55728 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250490 - Centre: latitude 52.97527, longitude -6.257471 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clara More, from 37 m² to 462,864 m² (46.29 ha, 114.38 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1285319: 462,864 m² (46.29 ha, 114.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1285319.md - Parcel 1293429: 364,306 m² (36.43 ha, 90.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1293429.md - Parcel 1289355: 219,457 m² (21.95 ha, 54.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289355.md - Parcel 1259080: 87,550 m² (8.75 ha, 21.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1259080.md - Parcel 5751443: 64,257 m² (6.43 ha, 15.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751443.md - Parcel 1277356: 24,293 m² (2.43 ha, 6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277356.md - Parcel 1268681: 16,819 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268681.md - Parcel 5751446: 13,892 m² (1.39 ha, 3.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751446.md - Parcel 1275541: 8,294 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1275541.md - Parcel 5751208: 7,748 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751208.md - Parcel 5751313: 7,745 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751313.md - Parcel 5751257: 6,470 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751257.md - Parcel 4908611: 6,392 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4908611.md - Parcel 5751289: 4,651 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751289.md - Parcel 1249266: 3,520 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1249266.md - Parcel 5751272: 730 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751272.md - Parcel 6178288: 393 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6178288.md - Parcel 5751209: 155 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751209.md - Parcel 5751453: 126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751453.md - Parcel 5751267: 37 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5751267.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 31 Jul 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660680: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660680/0 - 31 Jul 2024, Wicklow County Council 24331: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/24331/0 - 9 Jul 2021, Wicklow County Council 21816: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/21816/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Vale of Clara (Rathdrum Wood) SAC, site code 000733, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000733 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Vale Of Clara (Rathdrum Wood), site code 000733 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clara More. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Clara Bridge, bridge, 1670–1690, Regional interest, registry number 16402411, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402411. 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, registry number 16402412, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402412. 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, registry number 16402413, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402413. 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, registry number 16402414, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402414. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clara-more.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clara-more.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clara-more.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyhad Upper: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyhad-upper.md - Ballylug: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylug.md - Clarabeg North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clarabeg-north.md - Clarabeg South: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clarabeg-south.md - Knockrath Little: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/knockrath-little.md - Trooperstown: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/trooperstown.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/clara-more - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/clara-more