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About the council

• Welcome
• Management structure and leadership
  • Social development
  • Finance and support services
  • Physical development
  • Rural development
  • Economic development
• Councillors
  • Register of councillors' expenses and meetings attended
• Municipal Districts
• Policy Groups & Committees
  • Strategic Policy Committees
  • Corporate Policy Group
• Chief Executive's Reports
• Council Finance
  • Budget Report
  • Financial statements
• Annual Reports, Corporate Plans and Financial Statements
• Objectives

Customer services

• Seirbhís Trí Mheán na Gaeilge
• Customer Charter
• Our commitment to customer services
• How to Make a Complaint
  • General Complaints
  • Complaint under Disability Act 2005
  • Complaint under the Official Languages Act 2003
• Irish Sign Language Interpretation

Contact the council

• Áras Contae an Chláir
• Customer services
• Departments
• Emergency contacts
• Municipal District and Area offices
• Clare Alerts - sign up for alerts or manage your alerts
• A-Z of contacts
• Other directories
  • Rural and community development officers
  • Useful contacts outside of Clare Co Co
• Libraries
• Recycling centres and transfer stations
• Find your councillors
  • Ennis
  • Ennistymon
  • Kilrush
  • Killaloe
  • Shannon
• Online Query

Careers in the Council

• Current vacancies
• Awards and accreditation
• Working in Clare County Council
• Guide for applying for jobs online
• Contact Us
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Joining the Fire Service

Municipal districts

• Ennis Municipal District
  • News
  • Contact
  • Services
  • Elected members - Ennis municipal district
  • Ennis Public Realm Regeneration
  • Meeting minutes
  • Street performing
• Killaloe Municipal District
  • News
  • Casual trading
  • Services
  • Contact
  • Meeting minutes
• Shannon Municipal District
  • News
  • Services available
  • Shannon Municipal District Elected Members
  • Contact
  • Meeting minutes
  • Allotments
• West Clare Municipal District
  • News
  • Services
  • Contact and office locations
  • Meeting minutes
  • Bye-laws

Departments

• Arts service
• Capital projects
• Climate action
• Corporate services
• Cultural services
• Digital transformation
• Economic Development
• Ennis municipal district
• Roads, Environment and Water Services
• Finance
• Fire and Building Control
• Housing
• Human Resources
• Information systems
• Killaloe municipal district
• Library Service
• Local Enterprise Office
• Motor Tax
• Planning
• Property management
• Roads and transportation
• Rural and community development
• Shannon Municipal District
• Sports and recreation
• Town Centres First
• Tourism development
• West Clare municipal district (West)
• West Clare Municipal District (North)

Governance and compliance

• Access to Information on the Environment
• Data protection
  • Corporate Services Privacy Statement
  • Data Protection Privacy Notice
  • Privacy notice – CCTV on Council own premises
  • Clare County Council Privacy Notice CCTV Ennis, Cloughleigh
  • Photography and Videography Privacy Notice
  • Online Book of Condolence Privacy Notice
  • Submit a request in relation to data protection
• Ethical governance (fraud prevention, ethics and protected disclosures)
  • Ethics register and codes of conduct
  • Anti-fraud and corruption policy and procedures
  • Protected disclosures - whistleblowing
• Freedom of information
  • How to Apply for Information
  • Rights of Review and Appeal
  • Fees
  • Forms
  • Publication Scheme
  • Freedom of Information Privacy Notice
• Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015
• Re-use of Public Sector Information
• Safeguarding
• Internal audit
  • Internal audit privacy notice
• Public spending code
• Gender pay gap reports
• Drone usage, CCTV and surveillance systems

Meetings

• How Meetings Work
• Schedule of Meetings
• Minutes
  • Clare County Council Minutes
  • Municipal District Minutes - Ennis
  • Municipal District Minutes - Shannon
  • Municipal District Minutes - Killaloe
  • Municipal District Minutes - West Clare
• Agendas

Publications

• Annual Reports
• Objectives and Annual Service Delivery Plans
• Corporate plans
• Councillor expenses

Oifig na gaeilge

• Seirbhísí Gaeilge agus Fís
• An Scéim Teanga 2007 - 2010

Social Inclusion and Accessibility

• Access Officer
• Access to information and services
• Access to the Built Environment
• How to make a complaint under the Disability Act

Voting, Elections and Electoral Register

• Register of Electors
  • Register of electors privacy notice
• Application forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Local elections 2024
  • Results of Local Elections 2024
  • Map of local electoral areas
  • Becoming a candidate
  • Local election candidates 2024
  • Polling Scheme
  • Elections and donations

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Services

Arts, culture and libraries

• Arts facilities
• Cultural services department
• Arts Service
  • Arts office facilities
  • Public Art Commissions
  • Directory of Artists
  • Arts Projects
  • Funding and Opportunities
  • Events Guide
  • Arts Office Charges
• Clare County Museum
• County Archives
  • Collections
  • Exhibitions
  • Preservation Policy
• glór
• Grants
  • Funding Schemes for Irish
  • Creative Ireland project awards
  • Cruinniú na nÓg Awards
• Library
  • Branch library contact details and opening hours
  • Clare County libraries web site
  • Local Studies Centre
  • Library and community events
• Forms
• Publications

Business, licensing and economy

• Information and support for starting and growing your business
  • Local Enterprise Office (LEO)
  • Enterprise supports and grants
  • Invest in Clare - Why Clare?
• Economic development
  • Atlantic Economic Corridor (AEC)
  • Moving Towards Aerospace
• DigiClare (Hot-desks, Co-working and Conference spaces)
• Rates and Charges
  • Commercial rates
  • Reval 2023
  • Fire Services Charges
  • Miscellaneous charges
  • Local Property Tax
  • Charge on non-principal private residences
  • Housing charges
  • Rates Office Privacy Notice
• Licences and permits for your business or premises
  • Casual Trading Licence
  • Sign Licence
  • Road opening licence
  • Scaffolding Licence
  • Petrol Licencing
  • Abnormal Load Permit
  • Waste Collection Permit
  • Public premises licences
  • Licence for street furniture
• Procurement and tenders
  • What is Procurement?
  • Tenders and current opportunities
  • Supplier payment
  • Prompt payment records
  • Purchase orders over €20,000
  • Procurements in Excess of €10m
  • Public contracts over €25,000 awarded
  • Procurement publications
• Innovation strategy
• Clare Digital Strategy

Climate action

• Planning and implementation
• Community climate programme
• Guidance and resources

Emergency services

• Fire Operations
  • Fire Stations
  • Fire Charges
  • Statistics and Training
  • Joining the Fire Service
• Fire Prevention
  • Community Fire Safety
  • Smoke Detectors
  • Fire Safety in the Home
  • Fire Safety Management
  • Public Premises Licences
  • Fire Safety Codes of Practice
  • Petrol licencing
• Building Control
  • Building Control Legislation
  • Building Regulations
  • Construction Products Regulation
  • Commencement Notices
  • Fire Safety Certificates
  • Disability Access Certificates
  • Building Energy Rating
• Civil Defence
  • Overview of the Civil Defence
  • Joining the Civil Defence
  • Civil Defence volunteer privacy notice
• Publications
• Major Emergency Plan
• Contact

Environment, water and waste

• Waste and recycling facilities and services
  • Recycling centres and transfer stations
  • Bring banks
  • Monitoring Cameras
• Find a household waste collector
• Guides for waste types
  • Packaging regulations
  • Commerical food waste regulations
  • Battery recycling
  • WEEE - information for retailers
  • Litter - responsibilities for retailers
  • End of life vehicles
  • Tyre recycling
  • Farm plastic recycling
• Environmental awareness
  • National Spring Clean
  • Clean Coast
  • Blue Flag Awareness
  • Green Dog Walkers
  • Waste Prevention
  • Green Festival
  • Community Composting
  • Green Schools Programme
  • Green Coast Awareness
• Waste management plans
  • Waste management bye-laws
  • National Waste Management Plan
• Water and wastewater
  • Water and wastewater connections and queries - contact Uisce Éireann
  • Rural water
  • Protection of water
• Environmental protection
  • Farming with Nature in Clare
  • Report pollution in your area
  • Responding to oil pollution
  • Noise pollution and noise action plan
  • Air pollutioN
  • Agriculture, forestry and planning applications
• Protecting against floods
  • Flood risk advice and information
  • Flood relief schemes
• Environmental enforcement and policy
  • Litter Management Plan
  • Waste Facility Permits and Certificates of Registration
  • Waste enforcement priorities
  • Patrol Wardens
  • Abandoned Vehicles
  • Burning
  • Advertising and Temporary signage
  • Submit an environmental complaint or enquiry
  • Illegal waste collectors and how to verify an authorised collector
• Animal welfare and control of animals
  • Dog Control Service and Licences
  • Horse Control
• Contact us

Heritage and biodiversity

• Heritage
  • Introduction to Clare heritage
  • Built Heritage
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Natural Heritage
  • Heritage Council Grants and Funding
  • Archaeological Sites
  • Heritage in Schools
  • Clare County Heritage Plan
  • Protection of the Burren
  • Heritage Attractions in Clare
  • Clare Placenames
  • Genealogy
  • Education and Awareness
  • Contact us
• Biodiversity

Housing

• Housing department
• Choice based letting
• Housing Assistance Payment (HAP)
• Social housing
• Affordable Housing
  • Application process privacy notice
• Housing loans
  • Pay Housing Loans Online
  • Mortgage Allowance Scheme
  • Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process
  • Local Authority Home Loan Scheme
  • Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan
• Housing charges
• Tenants
  • Tenant handbook
  • Housing rents
  • Repairs and maintenance
  • Room for a Student – Local Authority Tenancies Scheme
  • Estate management
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • Tenants incremental purchase scheme
• Private rented housing
• Voluntary housing
• Homeless unit
  • Homelessness Services
• Lease or sell your house
  • Repair and Leasing Scheme
• Enhanced Grant Scheme for Defective Concrete Blocks
  • About the scheme
  • Privacy notice
• Housing Delivery Action Plan
• Housing grants
  • Housing Aid for Older People Grant
  • Housing Adaptation Grant for Disabled People
  • Mobility Aids Grant
  • Housing Adaptation Grants Privacy Notice
• Vacant homes
  • Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant
  • Local Authority Purchase and Renovation Loan
  • Are you the owner of a vacant property?
  • Are you aware of vacant homes in your area?
  • Other grant schemes available to homeowners
• Contact us
• Publications

Integration

• Ukrainian supports
  • Contact us
• Integration supports
  • Community integration forum
  • Guide for new arrivals in County Clare
  • Contact us

Planning

• Find a planning application
  • View planning lists (received, refused, granted etc.)
  • Search planning applications
  • Planning applications - view by map
  • Planning applications accompanied by an EIAR
• Make a planning application
  • Apply for planning permission
  • Forms
  • After planning permission is granted
  • Developments that don't need planning (exemptions)
  • Make an observation about a planning application
  • Planning information leaflets
  • Planning appeals
• Planning application rules and exemptions
  • What is Exempt Development?
  • FAQ
  • Change of use exemption from commercial to residential
  • Section 5 Declaration: Check if a development requires planning permission
  • Section 5 Declarations issued
• Development plans and local area plans
  • Strategic Integrated Framework Plan for the Shannon Estuary (SIFP)
  • Clare County Development Plan 2023-2029
  • Clare County Development Plan 2017 - 2023 (as varied)
  • Shannon Town and Environs Local Area Plan 2012-2018 (as amended)
• Unauthorised Developments
  • Enforcement process
  • Report an unauthorised development
• Vacant sites and derelict sites
  • Derelict Sites
  • Vacant Sites
• Taking in Charge
• Residential Zoned Land Tax
  • Submissions received on the RZLT Draft Map - Submissions Closed
  • Submissions received on the RZLT Supplemental Map - Submissions closed
• Property management
• Architectural conservation
  • Protected structures
  • Architectural Conservation Areas
  • Guidelines and advice
  • Architectural surveys
  • Archaeology
  • Vernacular Architecture
  • Evolution of building in County Clare
  • Grants
• Publications
  • Archive
• Registered quarries
• Contact us

Roads, parking and travel

• Motor tax
  • Tax your vehicle
  • Motor tax rates
  • Get a refund
  • Register your vehicle as off the road
  • Replace a tax disc, registration document or trailer licence
  • Apply for a trade plate
  • Tell us about a change in your details or vehicle details
  • Tell us about a transfer of ownership
  • Contact Us
• Licenses and permits
  • Apply for a license to open a road or footpath for connections
  • Abnormal load
• Parking and traffic fines
  • Parking by Area
  • Pay for parking by app or phone
  • Parking permits
  • Traffic Fines
• Road and infrastructure maintenance and improvements
  • Report a damaged road
  • Pubic lighting
  • Winter maintenance and salting routes
  • Hedge cutting
  • Community Involvement Scheme (Improvements for local tertiary roads - yellow roads)
  • Non-public roads and Local Improvement Scheme
  • Harbours
• Transport plans
  • Ennis Local Transport Plan
  • North Clare Integrated Transport and Traffic Plan
• Roadworks and updates
• Improvement schemes and projects
  • Killaloe Bypass/Shannon Bridge Crossing/R494 Upgrade
  • N67/N85 Inner Relief Road Ennistymon (Blakes Corner)
  • N19 Shannon Airport Access Road Improvement Scheme
• Road safety
  • Speed Limits
  • Severe weather advice for roads users
  • RSA employer resources
  • Road traffic surveys
• Public transport and taxi stands
  • Appointed taxi stands
  • Plan your journey - timetables
  • Connecting Ireland
• Contact
• Active travel

Rural and community

• Rural development officers, contacts and participation networks
  • Rural and community development officer team
  • Public Participation Network
  • Clare Joint Policing Committee
  • Volunteering
  • Local Community Safety Partnership
• Clare Rural Development Strategy
• Grants and funding schemes
  • Capital funding to support community groups - Local Enhancement Programme
  • Clare Local Area Grant Scheme
  • Outdoor Recreation Infrastructure Scheme
  • Shannon Municipal District Grant Schemes
  • CLÁR
  • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
  • Ennis Municipal District Festival and Events / Community Projects Funding
  • Community Recognition Fund
• Programmes to involve young people
  • Dáil na nÓg
  • Comhairle na nÓg
  • Resources for young people
• Clare Age Friendly Programme
  • Age Friendly County
  • Cultural companions
  • Ennis Age Friendly Town
• SICAP (Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme)
• LCDC (Local Community Development Committee)
  • Meeting minutes
  • News
• LECP (Local Economic and Community Plan)
• Burial grounds
  • Purchasing a right of burial
  • Burial grounds, registrars and caretakers
  • Exhumation Licence
  • Burial ground bye-laws
  • Graves and carrying out works
  • Drumcliff Burial Ground - An Bord Pleanála Application
• Broadband
• Clare Survey 2023
• Rural and Community Development Publications

Sports, recreation and healthy living

• Active Ennis sports and recreation facilities
  • Active Ennis sports and amenity park
  • Active Ennis leisure complex
• Playing pitches and playgrounds
  • Playgrounds
• Beaches and bathing areas
  • Beach bye-laws
  • Beaches and bathing areas
  • Leisure complexes and swimming pools
• Water safety
• Healthy Clare
  • Not Around Us Campaign - Towards a Tobacco and Vape Free Clare
  • Newsletters
  • We’re Breastfeeding Friendly Clare
• Cycle routes
  • Ennistymon to Lahinch
  • Doolin Cycle Hub
• Walking routes
  • East Clare Way
  • Mid Clare Way
  • Slí na Sláinte
  • The Burren Way
  • Ennis Historical Trails
• Sports and recreation department
• Large scale sports infrastructure fund
• West Clare Railway Greenway capital project
• Sport Activity Plans
  • Draft County Sport Plan privacy notice
  • Draft Local Sport Activity Plan Privacy Notice

Tourism development

• Overview
  • Tourism Promotion and Development Use of a Drone
• Visitors
• Marketing and promotional campaigns
• Clare Tourism Recovery Taskforce
• Tourism Projects and Initiatives
• Support to tourism providers
  • Regional Festival and Event Fund
• Twinning
• Tourism development publications

Towns - enhancement, regeneration and plans

• Town Centre First
  • National Town Centre First policy
  • Thrive Ennis
  • Sixmilebridge Town Centre First Masterplan
  • Project Development Measure 3
• Ennis 2040 - Spatial and Economic Plan
• Ennis Public Realm
• Killaloe-Ballina Town Enhancement and Mobility Plan
• Shannon Town Centre Masterplan
• New Shannon Town Park Project

   

   

Visitors

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Burren Geopark

Cliffs of Moher

Loop Head Lighthouse

Vandeleur Walled Garden

   

   

News

News Stories

Notices

Chief Executive's Reports

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