Clora
Townland in the civil parish of Killiskey, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Chlochrach
- Area
- 111.9 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 1,365 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clora, from 64 m² to 44,063 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Community & Education (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 May 2026Conditional
single storey extensions to both sides of the existing dwelling, reinstatement of a flat roof, construction of a front canopy, minor facade alterations, rooflights, internal alterations, demolition of existing garage and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660424
2 Dec 2025Conditional
dwelling as constructed (without restrictive conditions, similar to condition no. 2 as granted under 92/7867), which includes minor revisions to the internal layout, including minor revisions to window dormer and Velux window locations and revisions to site boundaries together with all associated site works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2560975
5 Apr 2024Conditional
1) Erection of 16 Number Semi Detached Dwellings, 2) 1 Number Detached Dwelling incorporating Carers Apartment Accommodation, 3) Proposed Estate Access Road, 4) Public Open Space, 5) Proposed upgraded Vehicular & Pedestrian Access, 6) Road Improvement Works to Ballinahinch Road (R763) incorporating increasing width of Carriageway, provision of New Cycleway & New Footway connecting to Existing Upgraded Carriageway, Cycleway & Footway to the East of the Site and All Ancillary Works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2460193
7 Mar 2024N/a
1) Erection of 16 Number Semi Detached Dwellings, 2) 1 Number Detached Dwelling incorporating Carers Apartment Accommodation, 3) Proposed Estate Access Road, 4) Public Open Space, 5) Proposed upgraded Vehicular & Pedestrian Access, 6) Road Improvement Works to Ballinahinch Road (R763) incorporating increasing width of Carriageway, provision of New Cycleway & New Footway connecting to Existing Upgraded Carriageway, Cycleway & Footway to the East of the Site and All Ancillary Works
Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460133
1 Mar 2024N/a
1) Erection of 16 Number Semi Detached Dwellings, 2) 1 Number Detached Dwelling incorporating Carers Apartment Accommodation, 3) Proposed Estate Access Road, 4) Public Open Space, 5) Proposed upgraded Vehicular & Pedestrian Access, 6) Road Improvement Works to Ballinahinch Road (R763) incorporating increasing width of Carriageway, provision of New Cycleway & New Footway connecting to Existing Upgraded Carriageway, Cycleway & Footway to the East of the Site and All Ancillary Works
Outline permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460119
4 Aug 2023Conditional
the provision of a single storey extension consisting of 2no. Mainstream Classrooms, a 1no. Classroom Special Education Unit, 2no. SET Rooms, Boiler House, and a Link Corridor to connect the existing 3no. separate buildings (proposed floor area = 500.0sqm) to existing School Building (existing floor area = 616.0sqm), together with a secure external soft play area, minor internal alterations and elevational amendments, and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360202
17 Oct 2022Refused
re-arrangement of existing entrance drive way to allow for two separate driveways, for existing house and previously granted dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221103
6 Oct 2022N/a
re-arrangement of existing entrance drive way to allow for two separate driveways, for existing house and previously granted dwelling
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221077
28 Sept 2022Refused
9 fully serviced detached dormer dwelling houses with associated site works, access roads and services and connection to public services and provision of school car parking, school bus set down and turning areas
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221043
13 Sept 2022N/a
fully serviced dormer dwelling house with detached domestic garage an associated site works, and access drive to existing shared entrance
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22993
27 Jun 2022Conditional
glazed conservatory type link corridor (31sqm) to the rear of the existing dwelling house
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 22705
7 Oct 2021Refused
construct 12 fully serviced detached dwelling houses with associated site works, access roads & services and connection to public services and provision of set down parking for Primary School and school bus turning area
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211208
9 Feb 2021Unconditional
extend the appropriate period of 16/334 - (1) the conversion of the existing studio granny flat, (2) the raising & re-roofing of the existing studio roof to include a dormer window to the front, (3) internal alterations & (4) associated site works
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 21118
29 Nov 2019Unconditional
extend the appropriate period of a permission - refurbishment & alterations to existing 2 bedroom cottage including raised ridge height of roof, new double doors and new sewage treatment system, well and associated site works
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 191284
4 Nov 2019Conditional
demolition of existing garage (74sqm) construction of a 2 storey house (214sqm) single dwelling with solar panels and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191196
29 Oct 2019N/a
demolition of existing garage (74 sqm) and construction of a 2 storey house (214 sqm) single dwelling with solar panels and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191175
13 Jun 2019N/a
domestic store/shed
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19647
21 Mar 2017Conditional
two storey extension to existing building (as constructed under PRR 14/1587) which shall comprise 1 no mainstream classroom, 1 no resource room, together with associated toilets and circulation space, all together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 17303
16 Mar 2017Conditional
refurbishment of existing fire damaged garage including minor amendments to same and change of use to hobby / games room together with extension (9.8 sqm) to rear
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 17280
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Devil's Glen 000718
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clora.
Architectural heritage
- Nun's Cross Church (Killiskey), church/chapel, 1815–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single storey Board of First Fruits Gothic style Church of Ireland church with three-stage tower and transepts, dated 1817, with chancel and small vestry (1842; 1882). The walls are finished in roughcast with granite dressings to the openings, granite string courses to the tower and granite quoins to the chancel and vestry. There is a clock to the tower. The pitched gable-ended roof is slated and has granite parapets. There is a granite chimneystack to east side of the nave. The roof of the tower is hidden by a crenellated parapet with tall granite corner pinnacles with crockets. The entrance is to the south face of the tower and consists of a replacement timber door with strap hinges, set within a pointed arch-headed opening. Above the door is an inscribed granite panel telling us that the church was built by Francis Synge Esq. (in 1817). The windows have pointed arch heads and are filled with reticulated timber tracery with lattice glazing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The church is surrounded by a graveyard.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3344 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clora with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Clora · An Chlochrach
- Area
- 1,119,152 m² (111.92 ha, 276.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killiskey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Killiskey, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killiskey electoral division: 1,637 people in 570 households; 79% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinahinch, Ballycurry Demesne, Ballydoreen, Ballymaghroe, Birchwood
- Placenames
- Clora 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.