Cloonmain

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmain, from 768 m² to 1,148,665 m² (114.87 ha, 283.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Cloonmain 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561145

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 Cloonmain.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-077 Mill - corn
  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.

• GA098-078001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hummock in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (max. dims. 60m N-S; 48.7m E-W) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from SSW to WSW; elsewhere an irregular scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is extant from NNE through S to WNW, and from S to WSW it is overlain by a trackway. The outer bank is visible from WSW to WNW. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at N. A barrow (GA098-078002-) lies immediately the SSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA098-078002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland immediately to the SSW of a rath (GA098-078001-). This circular ring-barrow (diam. 24m), in fair condition, comprises a low central mound (diam. 5.3m; max. H 0.47m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. A trackway abuts the bank at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• GA098-079 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Immediately to the S of a rath (GA098-079001-). This children's burial ground consists of a subrectangular unenclosed area (L 11.8m; Wth 7.4m) within which numerous set stones indicate graves aligned ESE-WNW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

• GA098-079001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular enclosure (diam. 24m) defined by an earthen bank from E through S to W and by a scarp from W to N. A field boundary cuts across the monument from W to N. A children's burial ground (GA098-079----) lies immediately to the S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 21 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• The Cottage, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, having later full-height return to rear, built c.1930, with lower three-bay two-storey block to re-entrant corner and having trianguar-plan middle bay. shallow hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, pitched slate roof to rear block. Square-headed window openings having cut limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, bipartite to ground floor of front elevation. Some replacement uPVC windows to rear elevation ground floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with timber panelled door, spoked fanlight and fixed multi-pane sidelights. Three-bay two-storey house and outbuilding to rear, with external staircase to south gable, having pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, rendered walls, square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor and fixed windows to first floor, with cut-stone sills, square-headed doorway with cut limestone block-and-start surround, and elliptical carriage arch with cut limestone block-and-start surround and later limestone sill and four-over-four pane tripartite timber sliding sash window. Recent entrance gates and piers 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 Cloonmain, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonmain · Cluain Meáin

Area

1,464,105 m² (146.41 ha, 361.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killoran, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilreekill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

373 people lived in 130 households in the Kilreekill electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlaur, Ballydonnellan East, Ballydonnellan West, Carnaun, Garryboghala, Lecarrownagappoge, Lissalumma, Newgrove

Placenames

Cloonmain 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.