Cloonoran
Cloonoran is a townland in the civil parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cluain Oráin.
- Area
- 107.1 ha
- 265 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 4,958 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonoran, from 24 m² to 309,748 m² (30.97 ha, 76.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cloonoran 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
10 Dec 2021Conditional
of existing dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system on revised site boundaries (gross floor area to be retained house 279 sqm & garage 32 sqm) and permission for the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house (gross floor area of extension 31 sqm.) and associated works.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212338
8 Oct 2021N/a
for development which will consist of the retention of existing domestic garage (gross floor area to be retained 32 sqm) and the construction of a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house (gross floor area of extension 31 sqm) and associated works.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211870
19 Jan 2018Conditional
to demolish an existing slurry storage tank, construct a slatted shed with cubicles and a soiled water storage tank at above location. Gross floor space of proposed works 366.6 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 1838
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 Cloonoran.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonoran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonoran.
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 Cloonoran, about 1 in 10 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 Cloonoran.
- 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 Cloonoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonoran · Cluain Oráin
- Area
- 1,071,033 m² (107.1 ha, 264.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moylough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Mount Bellew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,972 people lived in 701 households in the Mount Bellew electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballingatta, Ballymageraghty, Castlebellew, Clooncallaga, Moylough More, Patch
- Placenames
- Cloonoran 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.