# Cloona, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dysert, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare; in Irish Cluaine. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 906,566 m² (90.66 ha, 224.02 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dysert, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/dysert.md - Barony: Inchiquin - Electoral division: Dysert, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 334 people lived in 124 households in the Dysert electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6236 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30683 - Centre: latitude 52.912616, longitude -9.044471 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloona, from 779 m² to 271,629 m² (27.16 ha, 67.12 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1454321: 271,629 m² (27.16 ha, 67.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454321.md - Parcel 1517904: 148,504 m² (14.85 ha, 36.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1517904.md - Parcel 1477686: 136,497 m² (13.65 ha, 33.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477686.md - Parcel 1479381: 136,275 m² (13.63 ha, 33.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1479381.md - Parcel 1454320: 77,002 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1454320.md - Parcel 1504925: 64,168 m² (6.42 ha, 15.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1504925.md - Parcel 1450217: 15,155 m² (1.52 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450217.md - Parcel 1434795: 14,155 m² (1.42 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434795.md - Parcel 1444368: 3,295 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1444368.md - Parcel 1469172: 3,022 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1469172.md - Parcel 1464489: 2,629 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464489.md - Parcel 1492837: 2,608 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1492837.md - Parcel 1453439: 2,571 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1453439.md - Parcel 1443298: 2,259 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443298.md - Parcel 1471250: 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471250.md - Parcel 1513859: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1513859.md - Parcel 1481916: 1,811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481916.md - Parcel 1483924: 1,628 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483924.md - Parcel 1484607: 779 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1484607.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cloona in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Jul 2025, Clare County Council 25247: Refused. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a single storey extension to existing out building and demolition of existing two storey derelict cottage. Works to the existing outbuilding will include the construction of a new roof and external walls and will be incorporated within the proposed extension as a replacement dwelling. The development will also consist of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/25247/0 - 29 Jun 2021, Clare County Council 21675: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to A) Demolish an existing derelict dwelling and attached shed, B) Construct a replacement dwelling, C) Install new effluent treatment system, D) Upgrade an existing entrance and driveway from public road, all with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/21675/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballycullinan, Old Domestic Building SAC, site code 002246, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002246 - Special Area of Conservation: Ballycullinan Lake SAC, site code 000016, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000016 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballycullinan Lake, site code 000016 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL025-112: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-112----. Towards the bottom of a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Indicated as a circular enclosure on the 1920 OS 6-inch map and noted as a circular feature on a high-altitude GSI photograph (SMR file). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 only the curving field boundary E-SW was still visible (chord 26m) and much field spoil had been placed against it. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 December 2025 - CL025-113: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-113----. On a broad NE-SW ridge in unreclaimed hazel scrub. Hachured as a rath on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. On the Cassini (1920) edition it is shown as truncated by the NE-SW townland boundary between Cloona and Ballycullinan. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). On inspection in 1999 it was too densely overgrown to establish the existence or otherwise of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 1 December 2025 - CL025-116: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL025-116----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloona. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cloona, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloona. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloona.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloona.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloona.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cloona with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycullinan: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballycullinan.md - Drumcavan: https://everytownland.com/clare/drumcavan.md - Drummina: https://everytownland.com/clare/drummina.md - Kilkee East: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkee-east.md - Kilkee West: https://everytownland.com/clare/kilkee-west.md - Killeenan: https://everytownland.com/clare/killeenan.md - Mollaneen: https://everytownland.com/clare/mollaneen.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/cloona - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/cloona