Cloonsillagh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonsillagh, from 2,237 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) to 410,828 m² (41.08 ha, 101.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonsillagh 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.

• 7 Dec 2007Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12922

• 10 Apr 2007Conditional

  Construction of slurry storage tank, soiled water tank, extension to livestock unit to include loose house, cubicle house and slatted feeding passage and re-roofing of existing unit

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/6898

• 25 Sept 2006Conditional

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/10877

• 26 Jul 2006Conditional

  Construction of slatted unit with effluent storage facility off existing cubicles, sheds and all associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 06/9235

• 7 Feb 2006Withdrawn

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 06/4597

• 22 Oct 2004Refused

  Dwellinghouse

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/7909

• 13 Feb 2004Conditional

  Dwelling

  Outline permission · Cork County Council, 04/829

• 26 Jan 2004Conditional

  Bungalow

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/327

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonsillagh.

Recorded monuments

• CO006-049001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to stream. One of two low mounds of burnt material (max. H c. 0.5m), 12m apart, noted on N side of field fence (see CO006-049002-). Stream flows along S side of fence. 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

• CO006-049002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to stream. One of two low mounds of burnt material (max. H c. 0.5m), 12m apart, noted on N side of field fence (see CO006-049001-). Stream flows along S side of fence. 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

• CO006-050 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material. According to local information, mound levelled c. 1964. Shallow linear depression runs N-S immediately W of spread. 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

• CO006-051 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Small shallow pockets of burnt material exposed, according to local information, during ploughing or drainage works. 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

• CO006-052 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture. Grass-covered spread of burnt material noted. According to local information, mound levelled before 1973. 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

• CO006-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Subcircular area (81m NW-SE; 67.5m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.9m) with shallow external fosse to W (max. D 0.3m). Bank to NE widens; break (Wth 20m) ENE->E corresponds to small rectangular extension marked at E side of enclosure on 1842 OS 6-inch map, incorporating lime kiln. Circular depression outside levelled bank may be remains of lime kiln. Bank to SE, incorporated into field fence system, skirted by roadway. Bank S->NW eroded with gaps resulting; incorporated into field fence system; remains of stone facing both inside and out. Some stones noted forming core of bank. Break in bank to SSW (Wth 3m) and NW (Wth 6m). Interior crossed NE-SW by remains of cultivation ridges; rectangular raised area (H 0.3m; 10.5m NW-SE; 4m NE-SW) in NW quadrant; second internal feature, in NW quadrant and to N of first, is semicircular arc (C c. 6.5m; E->W) formed by low rise (H 0.25m), with W arm extending northwards for c. 9m. 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

• CO006-054 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In pasture, to E of spring (now dry). Grass-covered spread of burnt material (c. 26m E-W). According to local information, mound levelled c. 1969. 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

• CO006-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Depicted as oval area (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 25m NW-SE) defined by hachured scarp SW->E and by kink in townland/barony boundary elsewhere; only kink in boundary fence shown on 1842 and 1905 OS 6-inch maps. Levelled; arc (C 29.8m) formed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.6m) survives E->SW, incorporated into field boundary system; shallow external fosse (D0.3m) at SW. Inner face of bank stone-faced, similar to surrounding field fences. Faint trace of low rise enclosing remainder of interior (diam. 33.5m N-S); height not measurable. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonsillagh.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cloonsillagh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_651 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Cloonsillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Cloonsillagh · Cluain Saileach

Area

1,636,815 m² (163.68 ha, 404.47 acres)

Civil parish

Tullylease, and its townlands

Barony

Orrery and Kilmore

Electoral division

Tullylease, the unit of the census

Census 2022

412 people lived in 162 households in the Tullylease electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlelishen, Cloonee, Cooles, Cromagloun, Curra, Keeltane, Sheskin

Placenames

Cloonsillagh 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.