Cloonadrum
Cloonadrum is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cluain an Droma.
- Area
- 158.7 ha
- 392 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 3,234 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonadrum, from 23 m² to 133,403 m² (13.34 ha, 32.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- O2Cluster (General)
Cloonadrum Cluster, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Feb 2025N/a
to RETAIN the 2 bed residential unit, the storage shed, and for permission to extend the public mains sewerage for connection to the existing residences & all other associated site and ancillary works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2541
23 Nov 2022Conditional
to demolish part of existing dwelling and to construct new replacement dwelling, to convert remaining part of existing dwelling to a domestic garage, to revise and extend site boundaries, to decommission existing septic tank to install mechanical aeration systemm and polishing filter for onsite treatment of wastewater and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221054
25 Jul 2022N/a
to demolish part of existing dwelling, to extend existing dwelling and connect to existing septic tank
Permission · Clare County Council, 22665
15 Jun 2022N/a
to demolish part of existing dwelling, to extend existing dwelling and connect to existing septic tank
Permission · Clare County Council, 22527
3 Feb 2022Conditional
of the following development a) construction of side extension in lieu of original side extensions; b) two no roof windows to front elevation; and c) fenestration changes to dwelling
Retention · Clare County Council, 2288
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonadrum.
Recorded monuments
- CL038-028 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subcircular grass-covered area (int. diam. 26m E-W; 24m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m at W to 5-6m elsewhere; max. int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m at E and W; 3m at N) separated by a fosse (Wth of base 1.7-3m; D 0.4-1m) from an outer bank (Wth 5.4-8m; ext. H 0.3-0.45m) which is overlain by a field bank NW-NNW. There is no identifiable entrance, but the outer bank is damaged and the fosse filled in at ENE (L 8.5m). There is a hollow (3m NE-SW; 1.7m NW-SE; max. D 0.4m) inside the perimeter at NW, and a second hollow (5m E-W; 2.5m N-S; max. D 0.3m) 5m WNW of the centre. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 April 2020
- CL038-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise on the gentle S-facing slope of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular overgrown area (int. diam. 34m NNE-SSW; 35m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at NNE: Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.4m; at S: Wth 6m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.8m), and an outer fosse (Wth of base 2m; ext. D 0.6m) NNW-SE. The original entrance could not be identified, and the site is circumvented by a field bank SE-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 April 2020
- CL038-061 Mound
Description
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonadrum.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonadrum, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonadrum.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonadrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonadrum · Cluain an Droma
- Area
- 1,586,870 m² (158.69 ha, 392.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Cloonadrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 488 people lived in 182 households in the Cloonadrum electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Finnor Beg, Finnor More, Kilclehaun, Lissyneillan, Molosky, Shandrum
- Placenames
- Cloonadrum 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.