Cloonleenaun
Townland in the civil parish of Annaghdown, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Leannáin
- Area
- 89.2 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 2,434 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonleenaun, from 134 m² to 198,922 m² (19.89 ha, 49.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Cloonleenaun 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
27 Feb 2026Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse, sewage treatment plant, percolation area, domestic shed and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660313
6 Apr 2023Refused
for construction of dwelling house with effluent treatment system and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360354
14 Apr 2020Conditional
Construction of a new single storey extension to the side & rear of existing 2 storey house with alterations to existing elevations plus associated side works. Gross floor space of proposed works, 60sqm, Gross floor space of works to be retained 193.6sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20465
4 May 2018Conditional
for construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 229 sqm. (garage) 50 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18581
20 Jul 2017Conditional
of a domestic garage/shed. Gross floor space of work to be retained 54sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 171072
20 Apr 2017Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling 147.18sqm, garage 59.4sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17533
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 Cloonleenaun.
Recorded monuments
- GA069-017 Enclosure
Description
On level extensively reclaimed ground. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1934) as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Another enclosure (GA069-031----) lies c. 20m to NE. 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 Cloonleenaun.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonleenaun.
- 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 Cloonleenaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonleenaun · Cluain Leannáin
- Area
- 892,018 m² (89.2 ha, 220.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Annaghdown, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Annaghdown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Annaghdown electoral division: 1,978 people in 678 households; 86% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonboo, Coteenty, Lisheenanoran, Mace, Tonamace
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Cloonleenaun 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.