Cloonamirran
Cloonamirran is a townland in the civil parish of Inishcaltra, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Cluain Ó mBirn.
- Area
- 166.6 ha
- 412 acres
- Land parcels
- 159
- registered freehold, median 2,093 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
159 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonamirran, from 22 m² to 268,581 m² (26.86 ha, 66.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonamirran 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2025Conditional
of modifications to planning permission granted under P03/1288, for alterations and extension to dwelling house. The modifications include an attic conversion which provide 2 No. bedroom areas each with en-suite bathroom and PERMISSION is also sought to adjust position and increase size of 1 No. roof window in each bedroom area and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25379
2 Sept 2025N/a
The development will consist of the following: 1. construction of an enclosed swimming pool on the east side of the existing residence. 2. the construction of a sun room on the west side of the existing residence. 3. the development of the attic space within the roof of the existing house for use as a “granny flat”. This development will include new dormer windows to the east and west, new gable windows to the south and east, and new skylights on the east, west and south aspects of the existing roof. 4. the construction of a fire stair on the east side of the existing house, to provide an emergency exit to the proposed “granny flat”.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560538
23 Sept 2024Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse and garage, entrance and driveway and install an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460454
18 Oct 2023Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a stable building with dung, hay, and equipment storage, a soiled water storage tank and percolation area, and adjacent parking spaces. Access to the stable building will be via a new on-site road from the present residential gate
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360438
10 Jul 2023Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse, garage, entrance and driveway and install an effluent treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23391
25 May 2023Conditional
for development, the development will consist of demolition of existing single storey extension and replacement with larger single storey extension that includes a carport and all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360170
3 May 2022Conditional
of: (a) extension/modifications to existing house, (b) enclosure/modification of existing shed (c) of existing garden shed
Retention · Clare County Council, 22401
23 Feb 2021Conditional
to decommission existing septic tank system and install a replacement packaged wastewater treatment system and packaged tertiary polishing filter to service existing private dwelling house and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21154
5 Feb 2021Conditional
to construct an extension to slatted cattle shed and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2180
10 Dec 2020Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse and associated site works including entrance and septic tank treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20939
12 Nov 2018Refused
to RETAIN Shed and log style temporary dwelling and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18907
12 Sept 2017Conditional
to RETAIN minor alterations to existing dwelling house, namely position of chimney, windows and door on the south east elevation and to the rear of the dwelling, increase in floor area of attached domestic garage, storage sheds, including all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Clare County Council, 17695
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloonamirran Wood 001686
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonamirran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonamirran.
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 Cloonamirran, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonamirran.
- 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 Cloonamirran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonamirran · Cluain Ó mBirn
- Area
- 1,665,929 m² (166.59 ha, 411.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishcaltra, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Mountshannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 463 people lived in 197 households in the Mountshannon electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonoolia North, Cloonoolia South, Derrycon Lower, Derrycon Upper, Dooros, Mountshannon
- Placenames
- Cloonamirran 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.