Cloonfane
Townland in the civil parish of Dunmore, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Féan
- Area
- 199.7 ha
- 494 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 7,598 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfane, from 410 m² to 191,969 m² (19.2 ha, 47.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonfane 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
28 Mar 2024Conditional
for the demolition of an existing cubicle shed and the construction of a new cubicle shed and all associated ancillary concrete on an existing site. Gross floor space of proposed works: 176.64 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 87.36 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2460347
6 Jul 2023Conditional
to construct a side extension to a dwellinghouse, upgrade the existing septic tank to a new wastewater treatment system & polishing filter along with all associated site services & works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360755
11 Mar 2022Conditional
to: a) demolish existing house, b) construct new house and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works:142.18 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 95.69 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22335
14 Feb 2022Conditional
sought to retain alterations to elevations of existing dwelling house previously approved under Pl. Ref. No. 23111 along with associated site works.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260106
15 Aug 2017Conditional
for a forest access road and entrance.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171231
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA004-003 Kiln - lime
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonfane.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonfane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonfane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonfane · Cluain Féan
- Area
- 1,997,454 m² (199.75 ha, 493.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Addergoole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Addergoole electoral division: 587 people in 217 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcloon, Carrowntomush, Cloonbrusk, Conagher, Curraghaun, Darrary North, Garrafrauns, Kinnakinelly, Quinaltagh
- Placenames
- Cloonfane 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.