Clooncah

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncah, from 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 358,734 m² (35.87 ha, 88.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Clooncah 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.

• 5 Jun 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 248.6sqm, Garage 40sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18759

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 Clooncah.

Recorded monuments

• GA007-040 Burial
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in pastureland. Marked only on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930). No visible surface trace survives. A battlefield (GA007-042----) lies c. 400m to 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

• GA007-041 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  On a hill summit in pastureland. A large poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NW-SE 85m, NE-SW 65m) defined by a fosse, divided in two by a modern field bank running NNE-SSW. A site inspection in 1967 (Topgr. Files, OPW) recorded that it was 'bounded by a collapsed stone wall (overgrown and giving superficial appearance of a bank). Big wide deep fosse inside'. Subsequently levelled, it is now defined by a broad shallow fosse (Wth 5m). Outside the fosse, a band of nettles and thistles is visible from WNW to N, possibly indicating the line of the outer bank/wall. Traces of a possible causeway across the fosse are visible at N. The interior is flat but is slightly lower than the exterior. A battlefield (GA007-042----) lies immediately to E. 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

• GA007-042 Earthwork
  Description

  In grassland immediately E of a hilltop enclosure (GA007-041----). This record was listed in the non-statutory ‘Sites and Monuments Record’ (issued 1987) and the statutory ‘Record of Monuments and Places’ (issued 1997) as ‘Battlefield site’. The field report (1984) records the following: ‘According to local tradition, this was the site of an old battlefield. There are a large number of shallow rectangular hollows and pits aligned in rough lines across the length and breadth of the field. These pits are now quite faint except in the western side of the field. Elsewhere they have been largely filled in by . . . (owner). The pits seem to extend into the adjoining field to the west. The series of pits does not appear to be a natural feature; it seems quite likely that they represent the shallow trenches of opposing forces. The tradition of a battle in this field also points to this.’ (SMR file). It does not seem likely that these shallow trenches and pits were created in a military context let alone by two opposing armies compressed into a single field. The name of the townland 'Clooncah' (Cluain Catha), which may be translated as the ‘lawn or meadow of the battle’ or, simply, ‘battlefield’ could be interpreted as referring to this site or have given rise to the local tradition for a second battlefield (GA007-039----) c. 800 to the north-west. There is no historical record of a battle having taken place at either location and although it is possible that the origins of the townland name may reflect some conflict or engagement, pending further evidence, it cannot be accepted as indicative of a battle proper. (Alcock et al. 1999, no. 4054) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 8 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooncah.

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 Clooncah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Clooncah · Cluain Catha

Area

1,571,775 m² (157.18 ha, 388.39 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynakill electoral division: 434 people in 168 households; 95% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballincurry, Carrownaglogh (Co. Roscommon), Clooncunny, Cloonfaghna, Derreen, Moneen, Rosmoylan (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Clooncah 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.