Clooncon East

178 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncon East, from 83 m² to 115,461 m² (11.55 ha, 28.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Clooncon East 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.

• 3 Oct 2025Refused

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site development works

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25266

• 28 Oct 2022N/a

  for amendments to the single wind turbine development, permitted under Galway County Council Ref. Nos. 13/1139, 19/147 (Extension of Duration) and 20/1617, comprising an increase in the overall ground to wind turbine blade tip height, from up to 89.95 metres to 99.50 metres, the associated wind turbine hub height and rotor diameter alterations and to increase the width of the crane hardstand from 20 metres to 22 metres and the length from 30 metres to 40 metres.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261090

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  Permission sought to (1) retain domestic fuel store (2) construct extension on to existing dwelling and associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260223

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of a 20kV electrical grid connection from the consented Clooncon East Single Wind Turbine Development (Pl. Ref. No. 13/1139 & 19/147) to to the existing 20kV ESB overhead line network at the townland of Stonetown, Glenamaddy, Co. Galway. The grid connection is c. 1.5 km long and will consist of c. 1,050m of overhead line, supported by wooden poles, and c. 450m of underground cable. The planning application is accompanied by an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21750

• 6 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage and treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 151.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201662

• 30 Oct 2020Conditional

  for amendments to the single wind turbine development, permitted under Galway County Council Ref. No. 13/1139, comprising an increase in the overall ground to wind turbine blade tip height, from 84 metres to up to 89.95 metres, and the associated wind turbine component alterations, in the townland of Clooncon East, Glenamaddy, Co. Galway. The planning application is accompanied by a Planning and Environmental Report and an Appropriate Assessment Screening Report.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201617

• 1 Feb 2019Unconditional

  to erect a single electricity generating wind turbine of hub height up to 60m and rotor diameter up to 48m, a hardstanding, control building, associated site roads, drainage and site works. Previous Planning Reference No. 13/1139.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 19147

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lisnageeragh Bog and Ballinastack Turlough SAC 000296
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lisnageeragh Bog And Ballinastack Turlough 000296

Recorded monuments

• GA018-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 32m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present at NW; elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts the monument at NNW and SSW. (Knight c. 1975, 111; Conway c. 1980, 15) 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

• GA018-007 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. This well-preserved well is defined by a modern rectangular block-built wall (N-S 3.2m, E-W 2m) opening out to N. Access is gained via three steps. 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 Clooncon East.

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Clooncon East · Cluain Con Thoir

Area

2,767,398 m² (276.74 ha, 683.84 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Glennamaddy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glennamaddy electoral division: 925 people in 362 households; 71% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinapeaka, Ballinastack, Barna, Clooncon West, Cloonlara South, Cornacoyntia, Curraghmulmurry, Frass, Lisnageeragh, Mountkelly, Stonetown

Placenames

Clooncon East 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.