Cloonederowen
Cloonederowen is a townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cluain Idir Dhá Abhainn.
- Area
- 40.5 ha
- 100 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 9,239 m² (0.92 ha, 2.28 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonederowen, from 980 m² to 34,954 m² (3.5 ha, 8.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonederowen 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Apr 2019Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234.00 sqm (House) + 44.80 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19590
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonederowen.
Recorded monuments
- GA022-022 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Poorly preserved oval enclosure (NE-SW 27.5m, NW-SE 18.5m) defined by a scarp with traces of stone revetment at W. Possibly a degraded cashel. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA022-023 Standing stone - pair
Description
In pastureland just off the crest of a low ridge. Aligned N-S and 2m apart. Both stones are of granite and subrectangular in plan. The N stone is broken in two (H c. 1m); S stone (H 1.4m). There is a standing stone (GA022-099----) further downslope to SE (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA022-024 Enclosure
Description
Close to summit of a low ridge. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 17m, N-S 14m) defined by a broad low earthen bank (Wth 5m, H 0.4m). The interior is slightly dished in profile. A line of granite boulders, possibly part of a field wall, runs off from the enclosure at SE. There is a standing stone (GA022-099----) immediately to ESE and a stone pair (GA022-023----) to NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
- GA022-099 Standing stone
Description
Some 12m ESE of an enclosure (GA022-024----). Incorporated into a modern field wall and perforated for use as a gatepost. Tall thin granite slab (H 1.9m), rectangular in plan, and aligned WNW-ESE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonederowen.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonederowen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonederowen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonederowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonederowen · Cluain Idir Dhá Abhainn
- Area
- 404,500 m² (40.45 ha, 99.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballynahinch
- Electoral division
- Ballynakill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crocknaraw, Garraunbaun, Knocknahaw, Moyard
- Placenames
- Cloonederowen 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.