Cloonmweelaun

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmweelaun, from 57 m² to 329,119 m² (32.91 ha, 81.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Cloonmweelaun 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.

• 16 Apr 2026N/a

  for 1. Ground floor and first floor extension to the rear of the existing building. 2. Demolition of the existing north facing gable wall of the building, extending the ground and first floors of the north facing structure and reconstruction and extending this north facing gable wall. 3. Relocation of the existing entrance to the west. 4. Installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660581

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and a garage with treatment plant and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 295.60 sqm(H), 49.90 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561019

• 30 Aug 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 227.60 sqm (house) & 45.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461137

• 12 May 2022Conditional

  for a development. The development will consist of proposed Fuel/Storage shed to rear of dwelling house and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45.985 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22617

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 Cloonmweelaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-016 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a prominent rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 37m, E-W 22.1m) defined by a scarp, no visible-surface trace of which survives at SE due to extensive quarrying. (Claffey 1983, 150) 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

• GA059-017 Burial ground
  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.

• GA059-018 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  In flat pasture. The tomb comprises the remains of a ruined gallery (L 5.5, Wth c 2m), aligned NW-SE. Its overall length would indicate that it had at least two chambers. Four sidestones are present on N and two on S side of the gallery, and a backstone stands at its NW end. Finally, a single corbel or displaced roofstone protrudes from the ground at S side of the gallery. The structure is incorporated at SE end of a long low mound (L 27.5m, Wth 12m at SE, narrowing to c. 3m at NW). (Ó Nualláin 1989, 118) 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

• GA059-019 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On wetland with extensive bogland immediately to S where there is also a small stream. A low kidney-shaped grass-covered mound (NW-SE 6.8m, NE-SW 6.2m, H 1m max.) with a depression on S side. 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 Cloonmweelaun.

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 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Cloonmweelaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cloonmweelaun · Coill Mhaoláin

Area

2,552,874 m² (255.29 ha, 630.83 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Derryglassaun electoral division: 976 people in 332 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagrosheen, Derryglassaun, Menlough Commons, Menlough Eighter, Menlough Oughter, Pollnabrone

Placenames

Cloonmweelaun 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.