Cloghane
Cloghane is a townland in the civil parish of Ballinadee, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Clochán.
- Area
- 197.8 ha
- 489 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 3,190 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 30
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghane, from 162 m² to 268,752 m² (26.88 ha, 66.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cloghane 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
28 Nov 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for construction of stables for domestic use with ancillary storage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6613
28 Oct 2021Conditional
The construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/6925
23 Jun 2021Conditional
The demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of replacement dwelling house, installation of on-site wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5731
12 Feb 2021Conditional
The construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/4344
4 Aug 2017Conditional
Construction of new dwelling house, garage, septic tank, percolation area and associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/6037
28 Oct 2016Conditional
The construction of an extension to the rear (north) elevation of existing dwelling, domestic garage, treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6717
8 May 2015Withdrawn
Retention of two storey extension to existing bungalow including conversion of attic of existing bungalow to living accommodation and re-opening previously existing entrance in lieu of permitted entrance
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4972
31 Mar 2015Incompleted application
Retention of two-storey extensions to existing bungalow and also revised and relocated improved entrance detail to replace existing entrance
Retention · Cork County Council, 15/4631
2 Jul 2014Conditional
Demolition of existing milking parlour, construction of new milking parlour including roof over existing slurry pit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5411
23 Jun 2014Incompleted application
Demolition of existing milking parlour, construction of new milking parlour including roof over existing slurry pit and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 14/5329
11 Oct 2012Conditional
Retention of dwelling house, domestic garage and garden shed as constructed and all associated site works (previous Planning Ref. No. 99/6212)
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/6135
27 Sept 2012Incompleted application
Retention of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and garden shed as constructed and all associated site works (previous Planning Reg. No. 99/6212)
Retention · Cork County Council, 12/6054
19 Mar 2009Conditional
Bungalow, entrance & septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4836
29 Jun 2007Conditional
Construction of cubicle house, modular steel overground slurry store, separate isolation unit shed and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/9144
16 May 2007Conditional
Double domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7841
1 May 2007Conditional
Conversion of attic space to habitable accommodation and retention of increase in roof height and elevational alterations to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/7416
24 Feb 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/5079
6 Feb 2006Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/4587
15 Apr 2005Conditional
Retention of garage and change of layout and site boundaries for dwelling permitted under Reg No. 03/640
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2449
15 Apr 2005Conditional
Retention of garage and change of layout and site boundaries for dwelling permitted under Reg. No. 03/2949
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/2419
24 Mar 2005Incompleted application
Retention of garage and change of site layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1844
24 Mar 2005Incompleted application
Retention of garage and change of site layout
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1847
2 Apr 2004Refused
Two no. dwellings
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/2208
23 Oct 2003Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/5268
18 Aug 2003New application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/4136
The 25 most recent of 30 applications.
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 Cloghane.
Recorded monuments
- CO111-023 Standing stone
Description
In tillage on E-facing slope. Prostrate rectangular stone (L 3.17m; 0.75m x 0.6m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO111-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
Circular, slightly raised area (53m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1.15m); outer bank (H 1.5m) stone-faced in parts. Banks broken to SE and W, with causeways. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO111-053 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In tillage on N-facing slope. 'Tobereenedenaght - Tobairin a Dinigh (little well of the medicinal draught) and locally , Surfeit Well'. (O'Donoghue 1986, 116). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/ Images by Finola Fenlon curated by Amanda Clarke.
Architectural heritage
- Cloghane House, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, having later porch to front (north-east), single-storey with dormer attic addition and lean-to porch to side (north-west) and two-storey addition to rear (south-west). Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to side (north-west) addition. Artificial slate roof to side (north-west) lean-to porch. Rendered walls throughout with render sill band to first floor and rendered quoins to front elevation. Pointed arch window openings with render sills and two-over-two timber sliding sash windows to front elevation and first floor of side (north-west) elevation. Camber-headed window openings with render sills to ground floor side (north-west) elevation, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with render sills and replacement timber casement windows to side (north-west) elevation of rear addition. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf glazed timber doors to side (north-west) elevation of porch, having square-headed door opening to interior with double-leaf glazed timber doors.
- Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Four-span road bridge, built c.1780, spanning tributary. Square-headed arches having dressed limestone lintels springing from rubble stone piers with round-headed cutwaters to south-west elevation. Slightly battered rubble stone abutments with later rubble stone parapet walls having rendered coping and square-headed drain openings to road level. Rubble stone faced embankment to west bank of south-west elevation. Second later perpendicular bridge to north comprising of square-headed arch with rendered lintels, soffit and piers. Recent mass concrete, spandrels and abutments with recent rubble stone parapet walls having rendered coping.
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 Cloghane, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghane.
- 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 Cloghane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghane · An Clochán
- Area
- 1,977,901 m² (197.79 ha, 488.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinadee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Knockroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 767 people lived in 254 households in the Knockroe electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kildarra, Kilmacsimon, Knocknacurra, Knocknagappul, Rathdrought, Rockhouse, Tullyland
- Placenames
- Cloghane 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.