Cloghna

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghna, from 82 m² to 324,065 m² (32.41 ha, 80.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloghna in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  A 10 Year Planning Permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 57 hectares. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 8 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 2 no. single storey spare parts containers, 1 no. Ring Main Unit, 3 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L4038, L8185, R448, L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 5 no. watercourse/drain deck crossings and 2 no. horizontal directional drill crossings (under M9 motorway and the Dublin - Waterford railway), temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 2 no. existing entrances from the R448 and L1010. Sections of the proposed underground electrical cabling will traverse the solar farms proposed under Carlow County Council References 24/60043 and 24/60205, but will not alter infrastructure proposed under these applications. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560137

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new bored well, new splayed entrance and associated site work

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2560022

• 19 Jul 2024Conditional

  A 10 Year planning permission for a solar farm with a total area of circa 73 hectares in the townlands of Ballybar Lower, Ballybar Upper, Ballycarney, Ballyloo, Linkardstown, Park and Tinryland in County Carlow. The solar farm will consist of solar panels on ground mounted frames, 11 no. single storey electrical inverter/transformer stations, 3 no. single storey spare parts containers, 2 no. Ring Main Units, 3 no. weather stations, underground electrical ducting and cabling within the development site, private lands and within the L1010, L3051, L3052 and L3050 public roads to connect solar farm field parcels, security fencing, CCTV, access tracks, 3 no. watercourse/drain deck crossings and 2 no. horizontal directional drill crossings (under M9 motorway and L3050), temporary construction compounds, landscaping and all associated ancillary development and drainage works. Construction and operational access will be via 2 no. entrances from the L1022 and L1010. Sections of the proposed underground electrical cabling will traverse the solar farm proposed under Carlow County Council Reference 24/60043, but will not alter infrastructure proposed under that application. The operational lifespan of the solar farm will be 40 years and planning permission is requested for this duration. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared and will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460205

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  development will consist of essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit, comprising the following: (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works, (ii) Post-Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging, (iii) Back-drain Maintenance, (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works, (v) Trackway Surface Upgrade Works, (vi) 10 no. Temporary Construction Compounds, (vii) Temporary mobile welfare units, and, (viii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2460026

• 10 Mar 2023N/a

  permission for development of a c.15.358 ha site at the Barrow Navigation. The development will consist of essential maintenance and repair works to the Barrow Navigation, in accordance with Waterways Ireland's statutory remit, comprising the following; (i) Bank Revetment & Strengthening Works (ii) Post- Flood Spot Dredging & Maintenance Dredging (iii) Back-Drain Maintenance (iv) Small-scale Bank Repair Works (v) Trackway Surface Maintenance Works and (vi) A new temporary haul road located at Bestfield and Borris. Bestfield access route is indicative with final route to be agreed with landowner. A 15m haul road approximately 4m wide will be constructed from the access trackway in the Borris Estate to the Barrow track way and (vii) all works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance and repair works referred to above. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this Planning Application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2350

• 16 Jan 2023Conditional

  development will consist of a new two storey dwelling extending to c.235msq. The proposal also includes associated site works including a new entrance gateway and lane, a septic tank unit, associated treatment systems, new boundary fencing and hedge and required services connections

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 238

• 17 Nov 2022N/a

  the development will consist of a new two storey dwelling extending to c.235msq. The proposal also includes associated site works including a new entrance gateway and lane, a septic tank unit, associated treatment systems, new boundary fencing and hedge and required services connections

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 22390

• 8 Nov 2021Conditional

  To construct a single storey, split level dwelling while demolishing an existing single storey dwelling, upgrading existing entrance, detached garage, new waste water treatment system, percolation area, bored well, and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21424

• 21 Oct 2021Conditional

  To construct a 30m multi-user lattice telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works including new access track and to replace existing gated access. The installation will form part of eir mobile telecommunications network. A Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S.) will accompany the planning application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21400

• 14 Oct 2021N/a

  Permission to construct a 30m multi-user lattice telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works including new access track and to replace existing gated access. The installation will form part of Eir Mobile telecommunications network. A Natura Impact Statement (N.I.S) will accompany the planning application.

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21390

• 22 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct a 30m multi-user lattice telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works including new access track and to replace existing gated access situated at Cloghristick, Milford, Co. Carlow. The installation will form part of eir Mobile telecommunications network.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20328

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  Retention planning permission for the revisions to dwelling as constructed on foot of planning ref 01/167. Revisions include internal & external alterations and revised entrance location. Retention planning permission is also sought for as constructed detatched domestic garage and all other associated site works.

  Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2077

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  for the construction of an uncovered storage facility (approximately 0.85 hectares), ancillary to the existing Keystone Supplies Ltd. Development, involving the importation and recovery through deposition of inert waste and material, namely soil and stones, on which is placed crushed rock/gravel engineering fill, graded and compacted to a finished level consistent with the existing adjoining development. Development works also includes the temporary access via an existing agricultural entrance and all associated civil works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 19176

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

• CW007-043 Burial ground
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Enclosed by barbed wire fence. Headstones of nineteenth-century date. No visible trace of any antiquity.

• CW007-085001 Field system
  Description

  Field system surrounding ring-ditch (CW007-085002-) visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (12) 34-36). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• CW007-085002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Ring-ditch surrounded by extensive field system (CW007-085001-) visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (12) 34-36). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• CW007-088 Enclosure
  Description

  Circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (14) 12-14). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• CW007-170 Enclosure
  Description

  A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 29m N-S; c. 26m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a similar enclosure (CW007-171----) c. 60m to the S. See attached image: CW007-170----_01 Google Earth Pro imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• CW007-171 Enclosure
  Description

  A rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 24m N-S; c. 30m E-W) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a similar enclosure (CW007-170----) c. 60m to the N. See attached image: CW007-170----_01 Google Earth Pro imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• CW007-172 Enclosure
  Description

  A circular enclosure (diam. c. 21m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a ring-ditch (CW007-173----) c. 180m to the SSE. See attached image: CW007-172----_01 Google Earth Pro imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• CW007-173 Ring-ditch
  Description

  A circular ring-ditch (diam. c. 10m) identified as a cropmark on Google Earth Pro imagery (imagery date 14 July 2018) by Jean-Charles Caillère. There is a circular enclosure (CW007-172----) c. 180m to the NNW. See attached image: CW007-173----_01 Google Earth Pro imagery Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 September 2019

• CW012-009001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2010 Aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 32-3; GB91.DY. 02) show circular area enclosed by cropmarks of three concentric but slightly irregular fosses (est max. diam. c. 65m). At W, cropmark of fosse defining apparently circular and earlier enclosure (CW012-009002-). No visible traces at ground level. Possibly multivallate ringfort partly overlying circular enclosure of indeterminate type.

• CW012-009002 Enclosure
  Description

  Immediately W of possible ringfort (CW012-009001-), circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (CUCAP BGH 32-3; GB91.DY. 02). No visible traces at ground level. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• CW012-095 Enclosure
  Description

  Aerial photograph (GB89.S.03) shows cropmark of a small rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse bordering the east bank of the River Barrow (Barrett 1989).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghna.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cloghna, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2461 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.

No address of the register names Cloghna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Cloghna · Cloch an Chnámha

Area

3,298,213 m² (329.82 ha, 815.01 acres)

Civil parish

Cloydagh, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Ballinacarrig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,122 people lived in 395 households in the Ballinacarrig electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 2% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinabrannagh, Ballybannon, Ballybar Lower, Ballycarney, Cloghristick, Clogrenan, Killeeshal, Mortarstown Lower

Placenames

Cloghna 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.