Cloonkeen

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeen, from 474 m² to 270,073 m² (27.01 ha, 66.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 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 Cloonkeen 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.

• 22 Oct 2025N/a

  for the "change of use" of part of this existing historical property to facilitate agri-tourism and as described as follows: the refurbishment and conversion of the existing attached barns (Block C) into 3 apartments and facilities areas & the refurbishment and conversion of the old attached service area wing (Block B) into 3 Apartments and facilities areas; the recovery & refurbishment of the main residence (Block A) that maintains the existing character and use of the dwelling; to upgrade the existing courtyard and gardens to reflect the original design and character of the property; to install a new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area to replace the old style septic tank system; the provision of a ground-mounted solar panel system within part of the overall estate grounds. The above proposed developments are proposed for the existing Newton House, which is a protected structure RPS No. 84

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561551

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (dwelling 182 sqm & garage 60 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460688

• 28 Feb 2024Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 182 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460208

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 121.93 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17572

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 191.50 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17573

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonkeen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonkeen.

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

Name

Cloonkeen · Cluain Caoin

Area

2,136,156 m² (213.62 ha, 527.86 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Abbey East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbey East electoral division: 655 people in 215 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbert Demesne, Derreen, Gilkagh, Newtown, Parklaur, Tawnaghbaun, Windfield Demesne

Placenames

Cloonkeen 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.