US President-elect Donald Trump has pulled plans for one of his walls - a barrier to stop the Atlantic battering his exclusive golf resort on Ireland’s west coast.

The billionaire had sought permission to build a 200,000 tonne, 2.8km (two mile) sea defence in erosion-hit dunes beside his Doonbeg golf links in Co Clare, overlooking the ocean.

But Clare County Council confirmed that the application for the coastal protection works near Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg, Co Clare, was withdrawn on Monday.

The wall would have been 4.5 metres in height and built from rock.

According to Friends of the Irish Environment, new planning permission is to be submitted proposing sheet metal piling and rock armour for 650m at one end and 200m at the other end of the dune system.

Two golf holes will be relocated inland on the course, it said.

Trump Hotels said it estimated that 15-20m of dune face at the edge of the golf course has been eroded since 2002.

Its new plans involve putting in sea defences to protect the first, ninth and 18th holes covering about 600m at the south end of Doughmore and 250m at the north end of the bay.

A planning application will be made to insert metal sheet piles into the ground on the golf course and lay limestone boulders on the base of the piles. It said the defence would be invisible and covered by sand and a cobble bank at the back of the beach.

Trump Hotels said the work would be “wholly within lands owned by the golf course”.

It added: “There would be no material effect upon the adjacent SAC (Special Area of Conservation) areas.”