Cloon
Townland in the civil parish of Bridgetown, barony of Fermoy, Co. Cork; in Irish An Chluain
Parcel 2258106
- Area
- 323,920 m² (32.39 ha, 80.04 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 1,457 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cloon
Planning applications on this parcel
3 Oct 2025Grant with conditions
Permission for replacing existing septic tank with bio tank and new percolation
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6095
1 Jul 2025Incompleted application
Permission for a bio tank and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/5292
25 Sept 2006Conditional
Construction of extension to dwelling, construction of garage and installation of bio tank to replace existing septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10887
7 Sept 2006Incompleted application
Extension to dwelling, construction of garage and installation of bio-tank to replace existing septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/10404
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Awbeg Valley (Castletownroche) 001561
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- CO026-181001 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of fosse of circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); macula in N half of interior. Within field system (12010). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO034-074 Enclosure
Description
Cropmark of two concentric fosses of circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) visible in aerial photograph (CASAP, July 1989); macula in S half. Two parallel linear cropmarks approach enclosure from S; other linear cropmarks to S and W are probably levelled field boundaries. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
- Copsewood, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c. 1810. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks having moulded limestone caps, dormer window to all sides and timber brackets to eaves. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having double four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with limestone sills. Four-pane double timber casement windows to dormers. Round-headed entrance door opening having engaged limestone columns, cornice and archivolt, timber panelled door and fanlight, with steps. Single-storey rubble stone outbuildings with hipped slate roofs to site. Rendered boundary walls and piers with recent metal gates.
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
- 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, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- 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.