# Cloon, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,152,747 m² (115.27 ha, 284.85 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,913 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Allsaints, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/allsaints.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Castleforward, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,345 people lived in 444 households in the Castleforward electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15131 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50665 - Centre: latitude 54.970788, longitude -7.445321 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloon, from 176 m² to 228,387 m² (22.84 ha, 56.44 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1391315: 228,387 m² (22.84 ha, 56.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391315.md - Parcel 1372077: 224,974 m² (22.5 ha, 55.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372077.md - Parcel 5216895: 212,650 m² (21.26 ha, 52.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5216895.md - Parcel 1395353: 205,055 m² (20.51 ha, 50.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395353.md - Parcel 5930776: 133,722 m² (13.37 ha, 33.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930776.md - Parcel 1388889: 82,109 m² (8.21 ha, 20.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388889.md - Parcel 5930764: 27,830 m² (2.78 ha, 6.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5930764.md - Parcel 5994010: 8,142 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994010.md - Parcel 1301562: 7,913 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301562.md - Parcel 1369241: 6,926 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369241.md - Parcel 4389380: 3,759 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4389380.md - Parcel 5216893: 2,948 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5216893.md - Parcel 1330458: 2,923 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330458.md - Parcel 4788900: 2,341 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788900.md - Parcel 4788897: 2,192 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4788897.md - Parcel 1339923: 1,591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339923.md - Parcel 5994019: 176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5994019.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Cloon in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloon. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG055-009: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG055-009----. A slight rise in the field is the only indication of the 'Fort' marked on 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on a low N-S ridge in good land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kiln, 1840–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40905525, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905525. Freestanding lime-burning kiln, built c. 1860, now ruinous and overgrown. Square plan. Uncoursed limestone rubble walling. Segmental-headed red brick arch over west facing fire opening, red brick to fireplace rear wall. Infilled with rubble, grassed-over. Adjacent road. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cloon, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Garshooey: https://everytownland.com/donegal/garshooey.md - Kildrum Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kildrum-lower.md - Monglass: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monglass.md - Monreagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/monreagh.md - Tirroddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tirroddy-52525.md - Tonagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tonagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloon - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/cloon