Cloran

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloran, from 345 m² to 364,939 m² (36.49 ha, 90.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Cloran 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.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  for alterations to an existing domestic garage, to extend and convert the existing domestic garage to an independent living unit, upgrade the existing septic tank and percolation area which serves his family home

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25232

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  to change an existing office premises to a Veterinary Clinic which includes upgrading the existing percolation area to serve the premises. Also Retention is sought for a conservatory area at the side of a building. Gross floor space to be retained: 24 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24233

• 17 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 294.35m² & Garage 60m²

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260622

• 29 Jul 2021Refused

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works , house 294.35 sqm & garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211391

• 18 Jun 2020Conditional

  of alterations to existing dwelling house and existing domestic shed / garage including all associated works and services.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20747

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 Cloran.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-067 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 30m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall which is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. No visible surface trace survives from SSE to SW. A field wall cuts the monument at NNW and SSE. A souterrain (GA084-067001-) lies in the N half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA084-067001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the N half of a cashel (GA084-067----). This inaccessible souterrain (L >10m), which runs N-S, is indicated by a heavily overgrown linear depression (L c. 6m) and the almost completely blocked-up remains of a chamber (L c. 4m) at its N end. Three roof lintels protrude from the overlying sod cover. (Knox 1918, 104, 124; Cody 1989, 251, no. 77) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 September 2019

• GA096-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (36.2m NE-SW; 34.6m NW-SE) defined by a bank. A field wall overlies the monument from NNW through E to SSE. A possible souterrain (GA096-061001-) is associated. (Cody 1989, 252-3, no. 78) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA096-061001 Souterrain
  Description

  A heap of small stones close to the centre of the interior of the rath (GA096-061----) and the presence of a large slab protruding from the ground could suggest the possible presence of a souterrain (E. Cody pers. comm.). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA096-062 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 65m NE-SW; c. 45m NNW-SSE) defined by a line of hachures along the E, S and W sides; a NE-SW field boundary cuts across it from c. NE to W and no trace of it is shown in the field to the N. A fosse is shown along the E side and along the E end of the S side. No visible surface trace survives, however, faint traces of the outline of its S side are visible on aerial imagery taken in March 2011 (Google 2019). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 August 2019

• GA096-063 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the crest of a ridge in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 31.7m) defined by a drystone wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

• GA096-064 Mound
  Description

  In undulating pastureland, c. 15m to the W of Clarin River. A roughly circular round-topped grassed-over earthen mound (diam. c. 18m; H 1.3m). A low bank and fosse cut across it from NNW to SSE and another bank runs ENE from the NE edge. A fulacht fia (GA096-064003-) is visible c. 65m to the SW. (Knox 1916, 5-6; Cody 1989, 293-4 no. 118) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• GA096-064003 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying pastureland, c. 50m W of a stream. Described by Cody (1989, 159, no. 17) as a grassed-over horseshoe-shaped mound of burnt stone (13.5m NE-SW; 10m NW-SE; H 0.8m) opening to the SE. A modern stone field wall running NW-SE cut across the W half of it. On inspection in June 1992 no visible surface trace survived. A mound (GA096-064----) is visible c. 65m to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 November 2019

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloran.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_796 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cloran · An Cloichreán

Area

1,743,128 m² (174.31 ha, 430.74 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Greethill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Greethill electoral division: 1,086 people in 326 households; 89% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarraun West, Castleturvin, Gortroe, Greethill, Millpark, Moneyteige, Mulpit, Newford

Placenames

Cloran 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.