Cloon

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloon, from 131 m² to 162,882 m² (16.29 ha, 40.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Cloon 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.

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETAIN PRIVATE GARAGE/STORE, TWO GARDEN TYPE SHEDS AND POLYTUNNEL

  Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17337

• 15 Mar 2017N/a

  RETAIN PRIVATE GARAGE/STORE

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 17222

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 Cloon.

Recorded monuments

• KE088-057 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Not marked on the OS maps, this holy well was located on the roadside adjacent to a ceallúnach burial ground (KE088-031----). Known locally as Tobar an Cheallúnaigh, it was formerly visited on Good Fridays, when rounds included a visit to the nearby burial ground (Sugrue 1993, 40). No surface trace of the well survives. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1059. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Cloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Cloon · An Chluain

Area

1,369,511 m² (136.95 ha, 338.41 acres)

Civil parish

Prior, and its townlands

Barony

Iveragh

Electoral division

Emlagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Emlagh electoral division: 962 people in 381 households; 79% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghnanav, Emlaghmore West, Fermoyle, Meelagulleen, Mweelin, Reenroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cloon 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.