Cloonminda
Cloonminda is a townland in the civil parish of Boyounagh, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cluain Mionda.
- Area
- 120 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 9,671 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonminda, from 737 m² to 191,176 m² (19.12 ha, 47.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonminda 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
29 May 2025Refused
to construct dwellinghouse, garage, wastewater treatment system and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm(h), 50.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25127
13 Dec 2024Conditional
to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 222 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461720
10 Jul 2023Refused
to construct dwellinghouse & domestic garage, wastewater treatment system & associated siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360773
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 Cloonminda.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonminda.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonminda.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonminda, about 1 in 5 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 Cloonminda.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonminda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonminda · Cluain Mionda
- Area
- 1,199,855 m² (119.99 ha, 296.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Boyounagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Electoral division
- Ballinastack, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 340 people lived in 129 households in the Ballinastack electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardeevin, Ballinastack, Classaghroe, Gorteen, Knockauns East, Liskea, Straid
- Placenames
- Cloonminda 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.