Cloonaman
Cloonaman is a townland in the civil parish of Aghavallen, barony of Iraghticonnor, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cluain na mBan.
- Area
- 328.7 ha
- 812 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 3,535 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonaman, from 49 m² to 507,342 m² (50.73 ha, 125.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Cloonaman 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
23 Jan 2020Conditional
RETENTION PERMISSION TO RETAIN EXISTING FRONT ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL AS ERECTED ON SITE, SUBJECT TO SCREENING PROPOSALS AS OUTLINED IN DETAIL SUBMITTED 14/07/2020
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2041
20 Nov 2019N/a
RETAIN EXISTING FRONT ROADSIDE BOUNDARY WALL AS ERECTED
Retention · Kerry County Council, 191180
2 Aug 2019Conditional
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL AN IRL8 TRICEL NOVO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT AND SANDCEL TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON THEIR SITE
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 19819
17 Jul 2019N/a
ERECT A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALL AN IRL8 TRICEL NOVO WASTE WATER TREATMENT PUMPED UNIT AND SANDCEL TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CARRY OUT ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON THEIR SITE
Permission · Kerry County Council, 19748
8 Feb 2018Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING SLATTED HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SLATTED TANKS, A NEW MILKING PARLOUR / DAIRY / PLANT ROOM, REPLACEMENT ROOF OVER A SECTION OF EXISTING SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE, CALVING / CALF HOUSE, CONSTRUCT CUBICLE HOUSE EXTENSION WITH ASSOCIATED SLURRY TANKS TO SAME, ROOF OVER EXISTING COLLECTING YARD, REPLACEMENT ROOF OVER A SECTION OF EXISTING SLATTED CATTLE HOUSE, WALLED SILAGE PIT, APRONS AND CONCRETE YARDS
Retention · Kerry County Council, 1892
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballylongford Bay 001332
Recorded monuments
- KE002-037 Moated site
Description
This roughly rectangular enclosure is situated on slightly elevated land and has a good view of the surrounding countryside. It consists of an enclosing earthen bank that has a maximum external diameter of 47m N-S and 52m E-W. No trace of any exterior fosse could be noted. The maximum external height of the bank measures 1.5m, the width of the bank at the base measures c 3m, and the height of the bank above the interior measures .85m. There are three main breaks in the bank: in the NW corner, SW corner and SE corner, measuring c 2m, c 6m, and c 2m respectively. Westropp (1909) makes reference to a square fort without a fosse at Cloonaman. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 977. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 3 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonaman.
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 Cloonaman, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_197 (ZIP).
- 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 Cloonaman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonaman · Cluain na mBan
- Area
- 3,286,940 m² (328.69 ha, 812.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghavallen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iraghticonnor
- Electoral division
- Astee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 496 people lived in 187 households in the Astee electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghanagran Upper, Astee East, Killelton, Martara, Tullahennel North
- Placenames
- Cloonaman 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.