Cloonleagh North
Cloonleagh North is a townland in the civil parish of Shandrum, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Cluain Liath Thuaidh.
- Area
- 124 ha
- 306 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 7,780 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonleagh North, from 1,275 m² to 460,583 m² (46.06 ha, 113.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Cloonleagh North 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
9 Jun 2020Refused
To construct a single storey dwelling house and domestic garage, served by a mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5157
27 Nov 2019Conditional
To construct a single storey dwelling house served by a mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6831
23 Oct 2019Incompleted application
To construct a single storey dwelling house served by a mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6549
24 Apr 2019Refused
Construct a single storey dwellinghouse served by mechanical aeration unit and sand polishing filter
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/5015
21 Jul 2006Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9139
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 Cloonleagh North.
Recorded monuments
- CO002-119 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In pasture. Horseshoe-shaped spring well (4m N-S; 3.1m E-W; D 1.6m) with tree on W side whose roots form W and S sides of well. Used by farm animals. Probably same well as 'Tubber Caogh' which, according to Grove White (1905-25, vol. 3, 80), was a holy well. 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 Images provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonleagh North.
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 Cloonleagh North, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonleagh North.
- 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 Cloonleagh North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonleagh North · Cluain Liath Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,239,598 m² (123.96 ha, 306.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shandrum, and its townlands
- Barony
- Orrery and Kilmore
- Electoral division
- Newtown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 983 people lived in 345 households in the Newtown electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakilla West, Cloonleagh South, Maine North, Newtown North
- Placenames
- Cloonleagh North 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.