Cloghaun

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghaun, from 9 m² to 84,762 m² (8.48 ha, 20.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloghaun 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.

• 1 Oct 2025Refused

  for demolition of existing lean to slatted shed and parts store. Construction of extension to the west of the existing workshop, comprising of an inspection bay aswell as a general maintenance area. Construction of a extension to the north east of the existing workshop, consisting of a reception area, toilets, office and a staff canteen and parts store. Installation of a petrol interceptor on the site and a 13.8 wide x 23.6m long concrete apron to the north of the existing workshop. Construction of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561424

• 22 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the construction of an artificial pitch to replace a sod pitch, 8m high guard netting, 1m high perimeter fence and 10 no. 8m high floodlighting poles along with associated ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1590 (pitch)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24212

• 1 Dec 2023Conditional

  and continuance of an existing stand-alone preschool and after school classroom and all associated services previously granted under planning reference number 17/560. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 73.7 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 23472

• 1 Jun 2022N/a

  for the following: 1) to construct extension to existing commercial vehicle servicing shed to increase floor area with new pits and welfare facilities, 2) extend yard area and install proprietary treatment system all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 510 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22714

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 110.5 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22543

• 4 Nov 2019Conditional

  to retain as constructed commercial shed and change of use of part of existing farm yard from agricultural to commercial along with retention of new site entrance and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 162 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 191724

• 3 May 2019N/a

  for an agricultural storage shed with access roadway and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 163 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19673

• 2 Apr 2019Conditional

  for an extension and alterations to an existing national school and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247.2 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19471

• 7 Mar 2019N/a

  for an agricultural storage shed with access roadway and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 163 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19324

• 16 Jan 2019Refused

  for an extension and alterations to an existing school (gross floor space 350sqm) (Previous planning reference 08/1219). Previous Planning Reference No. 14/130

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 1939

• 22 Jun 2018Conditional

  to retain dwelling house with attic conversion, and garage on revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained (house) 269.99 (garage) 62.4 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18858

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the erection of a preschool classroom and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.7 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17560

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 Cloghaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA070-037 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved densely overgrown circular rath (D 49.5m) defined by a bank. Possible entrance at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_566 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Cloghaun · An Clochán

Area

443,962 m² (44.4 ha, 109.71 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Liscananaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Liscananaun electoral division: 1,601 people in 521 households; 83% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunmore, Carheeny, Liscananaun, Waterdale

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cloghaun 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.