Cloon
Townland in the civil parish of Bridgetown, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chluain
- Area
- 44.7 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloon. The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloon 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
6 Mar 2026Grant with conditions
to construct a cattle shed with slatted tank, silage slab and ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/0552
27 Jun 2025Withdrawn
Permission for a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5263
12 Feb 2016Conditional
1. Demolition of a) Existing agricultural building to include straw bedded livestock housing, straw store & machinery store. b) Existing agricultural store. 2. Construction of c) Agricultural building to include straw bedded livestock housing, with slatted slurry tank & easi-feed. d) Agricultural building to include slatted slurry tank & easi-feed. e) Silage slab. f) Agricultural building for the storage of agricultural machinery & dry goods, along with associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 16/4301
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 Area of Conservation: Blackwater River (Cork/Waterford) SAC 002170
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Castletownroche) 001561
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloon.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloon.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cloon · An Chluain
- Area
- 447,165 m² (44.72 ha, 110.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bridgetown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fermoy
- Electoral division
- Kilcummer, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcummer electoral division: 283 people in 103 households; 82% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bridgetown Lower, Bridgetown Upper, Connaberry, Kilcummer Lower, Kilcummer Upper
- Placenames
- Cloon 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.