Cloonkea

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkea, from 1,826 m² to 851,238 m² (85.12 ha, 210.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonkea 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.

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  for: (a) construction of a detached single storey self-catering visitor accommodation comprising of no 2 bedrooms with bathroom, kitchen, dining and living space with associated landscaping works, (b) a single storey visitor-accessible archive room with wc. The proposed works are to be carried out within the curtilage of the recorded protected structure (RPS no. 285). Gross floor space of proposed works 181.33 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24194

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 Cloonkea.

Recorded monuments

• GA101-006 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In level grassland overlooking bogland to the E and surrounded by a stream from W through S to E. In existence in 1557 when it was captured by the Lord Chief Justice (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 109-10), the castle was owned by 'Owen Omadyn' in 1574 (Nolan 1901 6, 110). On inspection in the early 1990s, this rectangular four-storey high tower house (8.4m N-E-SW; 6.7m), with a gentle base-batter, was fairly well preserved and had been partially restored. It was constructed of roughly coursed undressed limestone. In places the masonry had been repointed with cement and all the walls were rendered. The NW wall was built on a low plinth and a hairline crack was visible running down the centre of this wall. A modified pointed doorway in the SW wall, with a concrete lintel, accessed a lobby with an overhead murder-hole. Further doorways off the lobby accessed a vaulted guardroom to the W, the spiral staircase in the S corner and the main ground-floor room to the NE. None of the floors survived but corbels marked their location and indicated that they were wooden. The upper floors appear to have consisted of a main room with subsidiary chambers above the doorway. At 2nd-floor level several steps of the spiral stairs were robbed out making it inaccessible beyond that point. Fireplaces were visible in the NE wall on the 1st and 3rd floors and in the SW wall on the 2nd floor. Diagonal chimney stacks rose from the SW wall and inside the NE wall. Bartizans survived on the E and W corners and there was another one over the doorway at 3rd-floor level. All the windows were plain and rectangular, many set in wide embrasures. The tower house, which is private ownership, has since been fully restored and is now occupied. (Madden 1902, 23) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 September 2021

• GA109-006 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.

• GA109-006001 Armorial plaque
  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.

• GA109-063 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In grassland, midway along a gentle S-facing slope. This possible large roughly subcircular enclosure (c. 90m E-W; 82.5m N-S) is defined by a low rise from SE to SW, a grassy bank (int. H at W 0.4m; ext. H 0.3m; Wth 2.1m; max. Wth 5.4m) from SW to NW and a low rise from NW to ENE. From ENE to SE no clear surface trace is visible. The avenue (Wth 2m) to Cloonkea House cuts through it from ESE to WSW. A band of nettles (Wth 3-4m) at NW and NE may indicate the line of a fosse. There is no trace of an entrance gap. The interior is clear and featureless apart from some ash and oak trees that are growing to the N and S of the avenue. This monument was brought to our attention by Dr C. Cunniffe. The following image has been uploaded: GA109-063----_01.jpg View from NW Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 July 2023

Architectural heritage

• Cloonkea, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1850, facing west, having two-bay side elevations, and two-bay two-storey return to south end of rear elevation. Hipped slate roof with centrally placed pair of rendered chimneystacks. Hipped slate roof to return block with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with cut limestone plinth to front elevation. Square-headed window openings, tripartite to ground floor, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, margined to first floor. Elliptical-headed doorway with timber panelled door having glazed sidelights over timber panelled stall risers, and glazed overlights. Carved limestone armorial plaque over entrance. Recent rubble limestone piers and double-leaf metal gates to road entrance.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cloonkea, about 1 in 20 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Cloonkea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cloonkea · Cluain Cé

Area

858,305 m² (85.83 ha, 212.09 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Clonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

454 people lived in 157 households in the Clonfert electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Brackloon, Cankilly, Killoran

Placenames

Cloonkea 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.