Cloonlyon

233 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonlyon, from 41 m² to 206,318 m² (20.63 ha, 50.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 49 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 Cloonlyon 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.

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  of dwelling house, domestic garage treatment plant & percolation area on revised site boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560091

• 15 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct domestic dwelling house along with domestic garage, new treatment system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 253.00 sqm(house), 27.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560035

• 6 Feb 2024Conditional

  of the house on revised site boundaries, and to construct a domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 183.50 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460117

• 5 Jan 2024N/a

  of the house on revised site boundaries, and to construct a domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 183.50 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2460008

• 24 Aug 2023Refused

  of the house on revised site boundaries & to construct a domestic garage

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360998

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 231.1 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211933

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house and construct a septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 220.18sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211111

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  to retain alterations to new slatted shed including revised location to that granted planning reference 19-573. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 84.1 msq

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21187

• 16 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a new slatted shed to include roofing and conversion of existing silage base to dungsted/dry shed, concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 105.7 sqm (new build) + 104.4 sqm (roofing existing)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19573

• 25 Jan 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a forest access road and entrance

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1860

• 27 Jun 2017Conditional

  to (1) construct a new slatted shed (2) extend stables (3) new farm road (4) machinery/turf shed and permission for change of use of machinery storage shed to sheep shed and all associated site works (gross floor space 334.72sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17942

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 Cloonlyon.

Recorded monuments

• GA032-017 Enclosure
  Description

  In poorly drained grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1931) as an oval hollow (c. 50m by c. 30m) delimited along SW side by a stream. What is visible is a low wide earthen bank (Wth 2m, H 0.5m) curving from NNW to E with traces of a shallow internal fosse. 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

• GA032-018 Quarry
  Description

  In low-lying reclaimed pastureland. Four small hachured features marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be disused sand pits defined by hollows. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 October 2014

• GA033-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in pastureland; a stream flows by to N. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives, though the field in which the monument stood is known locally as 'fort field'. 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 Cloonlyon.

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 20 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 Cloonlyon.

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.

• Cloonlyon, Ballygar5 sales

Name

Cloonlyon · Cluain Laighean

Area

4,375,176 m² (437.52 ha, 1,081.13 acres)

Civil parish

Killeroran, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killeroran electoral division: 1,301 people in 512 households; 71% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bleannagloos, Cartron, Cloonascarberry (Cheevers), Cloonascarberry North, Hermitage, Kilmore, St. Brendan's or Cregganagrogy

Placenames

Cloonlyon 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.