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• Finance
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• Library Service
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• Planning
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• Rural and community development
• Shannon Municipal District
• Sports and recreation
• Town Centres First
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• West Clare municipal district (West)
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• Water and wastewater

Governance and compliance

• Access to Information on the Environment
• Customer charter
• Data Protection
  • Civil Defence volunteer privacy notice
  • Clare County Council Privacy Notice CCTV Ennis, Cloughleigh
  • Corporate Services Privacy Statement
  • Control of Dogs Privacy Notice
  • Data Protection Privacy Notice
  • Derelict sites Privacy Statement
  • Draft County Clare Noise Action Plan 2024-2028
  • Draft Limerick Agglomeration Noise Action Plan
  • Draft Periodic Speed Limit Bye-Laws Privacy Notice
  • Drone and Time Lapse Camera Usage Policy Privacy Statement 2023
  • Ennis Local Transport Plan privacy statement
  • Freedom of Information Privacy Notice
  • Homelessness Services
  • Housing Adaptation Grants Privacy Notice
  • Online Book of Condolence Privacy Notice
  • Privacy notice – CCTV on Council own premises
  • Photography and Videography Privacy Notice
  • Rates Office Privacy Notice
  • Register of Electors 2023 Privacy Notice
  • Road Traffic Survey Active Travel Scheme
  • Road Traffic Surveys
  • Road Traffic Survey - Lahinch & Miltown Malbay
  • Tourism Promotion and Development Use of a Drone
  • Traffic survey Rocky Road roundabout and Darragh North
  • Traffic survey Inagh and Lahinch privacy notice
  • Draft County Sport Plan privacy notice
  • Draft Local Sport Activity Plan Privacy Notice
  • Road traffic survey proposed active travel scheme ardnacrusha to athlunkard bridge
  • defective_concrete_blocks_remediation_privacy_notice
  • internal_audit_privacy_notice
• Ethics register
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  • Arts and Culture
  • Business
• Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015
• Re-use of Public Sector Information
• Safeguarding

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, corporate, financial
  • Annual Reports
  • Annual Service Delivery Plans
  • Budget Report
  • Corporate plans
  • Councillor expenses
  • Digital Strategy
  • Financial statements
  • Freedom of Information disclosure log
  • Innovation Strategy
  • Miscellaneous corporate publications
  • Procurement
  • Public spending code
  • Management objectives
  • Archive
• Cultural services
• Broadband and digital
• Business
• Bye-laws
  • Beach
  • Burial ground
  • Casual trading
  • Control of Horses Act
  • Harbour
  • Roads and speed limits
  • Street performers
  • Waste management
• Clare County Development Plan 2017–2023
• Climate action
• Emergency services
• Ennis Municipal District
• Environment
• Housing
• Killaloe Municipal District
• Planning, heritage and conservation
  • Archive
• Roads and transport
• Rural and Community development
• Tourism
• Water and wastewater
• Waste and recycling

Publication Scheme

• Information about Clare County Council
• Services Provided
• Decision Making Process
• Financial Information
• Procurement
• FOI Disclosure Log and Routinely Published Information

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 and Electoral Register

• Register of Electors
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Local elections 2024
  • Map of local electoral areas
  • Becoming a candidate
  • Local election candidates 2024
  • Polling Scheme

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Services

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
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge

Arts, culture and libraries

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

Broadband, digital and IT

• Digital transformation department
• Information technology department
• DigiClare (Hot-desks, Co-working and Conference spaces)
• Broadband
• Open data
  • Your Council
  • Arts and Recreation
  • Business
  • Planning

Business services, rates and licensing

• Casual trading bye-laws
  • Casual trading
• Local Enterprise Office
  • Contact
  • Local Enterprise Office (LEO)
• Supports and Grants
  • Grants
  • Business Information Services
  • Setting up a Business
  • Growing your Business
  • Social Enterprise
  • Business Training
• Rates and Charges
  • Commercial rates
  • Reval 2023
  • Fire Services Charges
  • Miscellaneous charges
  • Local Property Tax
  • Charge on non-principal private residences
  • Housing charges
  • Planning charges
  • Roads and transportation charges
• DigiClare (Hot-desks, Co-working and Conference spaces)
• Invest in Clare
  • Why Clare?
• 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
• Waste and recycling
  • Packaging regulations
  • WEEE - Retailers
  • Litter management - responsibilities for businesses
  • Battery Recycling
  • Tyre recycling
• 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
• Economic development
• Advice for employers
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge

Capital projects

• Roads and Bridges
  • Killaloe Bypass/Shannon Bridge Crossing/R494 Upgrade
  • N67/N85 Inner Relief Road Ennistymon (Blakes Corner)
  • Limerick Northern Distributor Road
  • N19 Shannon Airport Access Road Improvement Scheme
• Coastal and Flooding
  • Kilkee Flood Relief Scheme
• West Clare Railway Greenway
• Ennis Public Realm

Climate action

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

Economic development

• Invest in Clare
• Enterprise supports
• Clare Skills Mapping
• Ennis 2040
• Strategic Integrated Framework Plan for the Shannon Estuary (SIFP)
• Atlantic Economic Corridor
• New Shannon Town Park Project
• Forms
  • English
• Allotments
• Moving Towards Aerospace (MAE)
• Town Centre First
  • Sixmilebridge Town Centre First Masterplan
  • Project Development Measure 3
• Contact

Emergency services

• Fire Operations
  • Fire Stations
  • 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
• Fees
  • Fire Charges
  • Fire Safety Certificate Fees
  • Commencement Notice Fees
  • Disability Access Certificate Fees
  • Licence Fees
  • Building Regulations Relaxation Fees
  • Petrol Licence Fees
• Civil Defence
  • Overview of the Civil Defence
  • Joining the Civil Defence
• Major Emergency Plan
• Forms
  • English
• Contact

Environment

• Enforcement
  • Waste Facility Permits and Certificates of Registration
  • Waste Enforcement Team
  • Abandoned Vehicles
  • Burning
  • Illegal Dumping
  • Unauthorised Collectors
• Litter Management
  • Litter Management Plan
  • Patrol Wardens
  • Monitoring Cameras
  • Advertising and Temporary signage
• Education and Awareness
  • National Spring Clean
  • Clean Coast
  • Blue Flag Awareness
  • Green Dog Walkers
  • Waste Prevention
  • Green Festival
  • Community Composting
  • Green Schools Programme
  • Green Coast Awareness
• Flooding
• Bathing Water Quality
• Pollution Investigation and Control
  • Water pollution
  • Noise pollution and Noise Action Plan
  • Air Pollution
  • Oil Spill
  • Agriculture, Forestry and Planning Applications
  • Reporting Pollution in your Area
• Protecting Drinking Water from Contamination
• Control of Animals
  • Dog Control Service and Licences
  • Horse Control
• Competitions and awards
  • Green Schools Programme and Awards
  • Best Kept Schools Competition
• Bye-Laws
  • Beach
  • Control of Horses
• Plans and publications
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Contact us

Housing

• Housing department
• Choice based letting
• Housing Assistance Payment (HAP)
• Social housing
• Affordable Housing
• 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
• Lease or sell your house
  • Repair and Leasing Scheme
• Enhanced Grant Scheme for Defective Concrete Blocks
  • About the scheme
• Housing Delivery Action Plan
• Housing grants
  • Housing Aid for Older People Grant
  • Housing Adaptation Grant for Disabled People
  • Mobility Aids Grant
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Contact us
• Publications

Motor tax

• Renew Your Motor Tax
• Motor Tax Rates
• Tax a Goods Vehicle for the First Time
• Apply for a motor tax refund
• Declare a Vehicle Off the Road
• Replace a Motor Tax Document
• Trade Plate Licences
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Contact Us

Municipal districts

• Ennis Municipal District
  • News
  • Services
  • Contact
  • Meeting minutes
  • Bye-laws
  • St Patrick's Day Ennis 2025
• Killaloe Municipal District
  • News
  • Services
  • Contact
  • Meeting minutes
• Shannon Municipal District
  • News
  • Services available
  • Shannon Municipal District Elected Members
  • Contact
  • Meeting minutes
  • Bye-laws
• West Clare Municipal District
  • News
  • Services
  • Contact and office locations
  • Meeting minutes
  • Bye-laws

Oifig na gaeilge

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

Planning, heritage and conservation

• Planning overview
• Residential Zoned Land Tax
  • Submissions received on the RZLT Draft Map - Submissions Closed
  • Submissions received on the RZLT Supplemental Map - Submissions closed
• 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
• Planning Charges
• Clare County Development Plan 2023-2029
• Clare County Development Plan 2017 - 2023 (as varied)
• Planning applications
  • View and search planning applications
  • Apply for planning permission
  • Post planning
  • Developments that don't need planning (exemptions)
  • Planning submissions (objections)
  • Planning appeals
• Killaloe-Ballina Town Enhancement and Mobility Plan
• Local area plans
  • Shannon Town and Environs Local Area Plan 2012-2018 (as amended)
• Shannon Town Centre Masterplan
• Unauthorised Developments
  • What is Exempt Development?
  • Enforcement process
  • Make a complaint about an unauthorised development
• Taking in Charge
• Planning agricultural developments
  • Planning for agricultural developments
  • Exempted development
  • Effluent storage and disposal
  • Planning issues
• Architectural conservation
  • Protected structures
  • Architectural Conservation Areas
  • Guidelines and advice
  • Architectural surveys
  • Archaeology
  • Vernacular Architecture
  • Evolution of building in County Clare
• Vacant Sites
  • Vacant site register
• Grants
• Publications
• Legislation
• Registered quarries
• Forms
  • English
• Contact us

Property management

• Property management
• Derelict Sites
• 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
• Forms
• Grants
  • Vacant property reburbishment grant
  • Other Grant Schemes
• Contact

Roads and transport

• Report a road maintenance issue
  • Report a Road Needing Maintenance
  • Report a Broken Streetlight
• Roadworks and closures
• Parking
  • Parking in County Clare
  • Traffic Fines
  • Parking Permits
  • Disabled Parking Permits
  • Pay by App Parking
• Road safety
  • Speed Limits
  • Public Lighting
  • Severe Weather Advice
  • Winter Maintenance and Salting Routes
  • Hedge Cutting
  • RSA employer resources
• Schemes and Projects
  • Community Involvement Scheme
  • Community Hedge Cutting Grant Scheme
  • Local Improvement Scheme
• Road Transportation Charges
• Public Transport in County Clare
• Publications
• Licenses and permits
  • Abnormal load
  • Road opening license
• Bye-laws
  • Doolin
  • Doolin harbour
  • Doughmore Beach Car Park
  • Ennis
  • Illaunamanagh
  • Kilkee
  • Kilrush
  • Lahinch
  • Lisdoonvarna
  • Loop Head Lighthouse Car Park
  • Speed limits
• Forms
• Contact
• North Clare Integrated Transport and Traffic Plan
  • One-way bus system
  • Signage and lining
  • Traffic management and pedestrian facilities
  • Lay bys, parking and park & ride
  • Public transport
  • Road maintenance and improvements
  • Proposal for the North Clare Integrated Transport and Traffic Plan

Sports and recreation

• Active Ennis sports and recreation facilities
  • Active Ennis sports and amenity park
  • Active Ennis leisure complex
• Parks, playing pitches and playgrounds
  • Playgrounds
• Beaches and bathing areas
  • Beaches and bathing areas
  • Leisure complexes and swimming pools
• Water safety
• Visit Clare.ie web site
• Cycle routes
  • Ennistymon to Lahinch
  • Doolin Cycle Hub
  • EuroVelo cycling route
• Walking routes
  • East Clare Way
  • Mid Clare Way
  • Slí na Sláinte
  • The Burren Way
  • Ennis Historical Trails
• Directory of clubs and activities
  • Swimming pools and leisure centres
• Sports and recreation department
• Grants

Tourism

• Overview
• Marketing and promotional campaigns
• Tourism Projects and Initiatives
• Twinning
• Grants
  • Regional Festival and Event Fund

Rural and community development

• Community participation networks
  • Rural development officers
  • Public Participation Network
  • Clare Joint Policing Committee
  • Volunteering
  • Central Waste Management Facility Commuity Liaison Committee
• Rural and community development
  • Clare Rural Development Strategy
  • Rural and community development officer team
• Healthy Clare
  • Not Around Us Campaign - Towards a Tobacco and Vape Free Clare
  • Newsletters
  • We’re Breastfeeding Friendly Clare
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Clare Farmers Weaving Stories Together
  • Free Period Products Campaign
  • Healthy Clare Micro Fund 2025
  • the weekly Health & Wellbeing Page (Clare Echo)
• Clare Age Friendly Programme
  • Age Friendly County
  • Cultural companions
  • Ennis Age Friendly Town
• Information for Young People
  • Dáil na nÓg
  • Comhairle na nÓg
  • Resources for young people
• LECP (Local Economic and Community Plan)
• LCDC (Local Community Development Committee)
  • Meeting minutes
  • News
  • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)
  • Healthy Ireland
  • Clare Survey 2023
• Grants
  • 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
• Burial grounds
  • Purchasing a right of burial
  • Burial grounds, registrars and caretakers
  • Exhumation Licence
  • Burial ground bye-laws
  • Graves and carrying out works
  • Forms
• Volunteering
  • Volunteering in Clare - supports and information
• SICAP (Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme)
• Forms
  • Burial grounds
  • CLÁR
  • Clare Public Participation Network
  • Community schemes
  • Healthy Ireland
  • Local festival and participative event
  • Play areas
• Clare Survey 2023
• Drumcliff Burial Ground - An Bord Pleanála Application
• Local Community Safety Partnership
• Rural and Community Development Publications

Integration

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

Waste and recycling

• Waste and recycling facilities
  • Central Waste Management Facility Community Liaision Committee
  • Map of Recycling Facilities
  • Farm plastics collection and recycling
• Bring banks
• Household waste collection
• National Waste Management Plan
• End of life vehicles
• Battery recycling
• Tyre recycling
• Farm plastic recycling
• Bye-laws and legislation
  • Waste management bye-laws
  • Commerical food waste regulations
  • Waste Management (Farm Plastics) Regulations 2001
  • Waste Management End-Of-Life Vehicles
  • S.I. No. 664/2007 - Waste Management (Tyres and Waste Tyres) Regulations 2007
  • Litter management - responsibilities for businesses
  • Bye-laws
• Resources and links
• WEEE - information for retailers
• Contact
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
• Publications

Water and wastewater

• Water and wastewater queries
• Drinking water
  • Water Supplies
• Water Supply and Waste Water Charge
• Rural water services
  • Water Quality
• Domestic wastewater treatment system
• Forms
  • English
  • Gaeilge
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