Cloon

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloon, from 209 m² to 138,366 m² (13.84 ha, 34.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 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.

• 6 Sept 2026N/a

  for the construction of a new 2 storey dwelling, construction of a detached garage, provision of a new site entrance, provision of a proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661519

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  for a new 2 storey extension to existing dwelling along with single storey extension incorporating a "Granny Flat ", along with new treatment septic tank system & include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 98sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24173

• 22 Sept 2020Conditional

  for extension to dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201350

• 24 Jul 2020N/a

  for extension to dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 35.1 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201016

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  is sought for the construction of a rear and first floor extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations. Permission is also sought for the construction of a domestic garage and for all ancillary services and site works; Gross floor space of proposed works; 89sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20833

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 Cloon.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-034 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 36m); on the 1921 edition the interior is planted with trees. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

• GA123-036 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone bridge, built c.1840, carrying road over Ballycahalan River. Round arch with dressed voussoirs. Coursed dressed walls with cut-stone string course. Coursed dressed limestone parapet to east elevation, and rebuilt concrete block parapet to west, with rendered copings, and terminating in square-plan cut-stone piers with pointed caps.

• Cloon Bridge, bridge, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch limestone bridge, built c.1840, carrying road over Turra River. Round arches with tooled voussoirs. Coursed dressed walls with some render, curved parapet walls to road. Square-plan pier abutments. U-cutwaters with rendered string course and domed tops. Soffits gunnelled.

• Cloon House, country house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1780, with two-bay two-storey return to rear (west) elevation, having single-storey addition and with four-bay single-storey lean-to roof sunroom. Pitched slate roofs, having rendered chimneystacks with string courses and terracotta chimneypots, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative curved cast-iron brackets. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered moulded eaves course and smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to front elevation, one-over-one pane to attic windows. Round-headed door opening with timber panelled door having plain fanlight and flanked by detached square-headed sidelights with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Some original joinery and decorative ceiling plasterwork to interior. Road entrance to south with round-plan dressed limestone gate piers and decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gate. Smooth rendered boundary walls with curving carriage sweep entrance to south-east with dressed limestone round-plan piers having decorative double-leaf wrought-iron gate.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_804 (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 Cloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cloon · Cluain Ó Maonagáin

Area

1,432,978 m² (143.3 ha, 354.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltartan electoral division: 859 people in 290 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyaneen South, Ballymurphy, Cloonbeg, Gortnaclassagh, Islandmore, Knockaunawadda, Lisrabirra, Rakerin, Rinneen, Turra Beg, Turra More

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.