Cloonmoyle
Townland in the civil parish of Tuam, barony of Dunmore, Co. Galway; in Irish Cluain Maol
- Area
- 76.4 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmoyle, from 1,065 m² to 113,994 m² (11.4 ha, 28.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Cloonmoyle 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
16 Feb 2026Conditional
of the existing domestic garage and storage shed and all ancillary site works
Retention · Galway County Council, 2660237
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
Recorded monuments
- GA016-041 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 43m, E-W 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A scarp forms the enclosing element from N to NE. The fosse survives from WSW to NNW; a field bank runs along its outer edge. 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
- GA016-042 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved conjoined ringfort. An E-W running road separates the two raths. The N example (E-W 45m), D-shaped in plan, is defined by a scarp with an external fosse from NW to ESE. The S rath (N-S 46m, E-W 41.5m), subcircular in plan, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW to NW. A souterrain (GA016-042001-) lies within the interior. 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
- GA016-042001 Souterrain
Description
Within S enclosure of a conjoined ringfort (GA016-042----). A much-collapsed drystone-built souterrain consisting of two chambers. The 1st chamber (L 9.2m, Wth 4.1m), running NE-SW, narrows towards SW end suggesting the presence of a creep. The 2nd chamber (L 11.8m, Wth 4.7m) to SW, running on an E-W axis, survives as a flat-bottomed hollow, apart from two corbels which remain in situ at SE end. 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
- GA016-042002 Ringfort - rath
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.
- GA016-043 Ringfort - rath
Description
On SW slopes of a low hill in rolling grassland overlooking boggy terrain to SW. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 38.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from S to WNW. A road cuts through the monument at NW and NE, and it is bisected by a roughly N-S running field wall, to E of which only faint traces of the fosse survive. A conjoined ringfort (GA016-042----) lies c. 250m toE. 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 Cloonmoyle.
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 10 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 Cloonmoyle.
- 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 Cloonmoyle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonmoyle · Cluain Maol
- Area
- 763,626 m² (76.36 ha, 188.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuam, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunmore
- Electoral division
- Killeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeen electoral division: 734 people in 245 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castletown, Cloonnacorra, Curraghaun, Lenamore, Lisconly, Meelick West, Tonmoyle
- Placenames
- Cloonmoyle 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.