Cloonlara
Townland in the civil parish of Molahiffe, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry
- Area
- 70.3 ha
- 174 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 3,383 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonlara, from 31 m² to 253,810 m² (25.38 ha, 62.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonlara 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
12 May 2025Conditional
Permission for a dwelling house and domestic garage served by mechanical effluent treatment unit and polishing filter and temporary permission for a mobile home during the construction of the house
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560394
24 Feb 2021Conditional
(01) DEMOLISH PART OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE THAT INCLUDES AN EXISTING SIDE GABLE WEST, REAR WALL NORTH, REAR FLAT ROOF EXTENSION NORTH AND REMOVE THE EXISTING LOW LEVEL PITCH ROOF OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL MINOR FLOOR AND ELEVATION ALTERATIONS THROUGHOUT (02) CONSTRUCT A NEW EXTENSION TO THE REAR, FRONT AND SIDES, INCLUDING A FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH (03) INCREASE THE EXISTING ROOF HEIGHT TO ALLOW FOR ATTIC STORAGE AND ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING THE INTRODUCING OF NEW 'A' GABLES AND SKY LIGHTS (04) WIDEN THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE AND CONSTRUCT NEW WING ENTRANCE WALLS AND GATES (05) TO DECOMMISSION THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA (06) INSTALL A NEW ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. THE PROPOSED INSTALLATION WILL INCLUDE A KLARGESTER P6 TREATMENT UNIT, OR EQUIVALENT FOLLOWED BY A RAISED SOIL POLISHING FILTER, INCLUDING ALL ASSOICATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21181
24 Sept 2018Conditional
(A) FIT A NEW VELUX ROOF WINDOW TO EXISTING ROOF AND (B) PERMISSION TO MAKE INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AT GROUND LEVEL AND FIRST FLOOR LEVEL
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18927
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 Cloonlara.
Recorded monuments
- KE048-097 Bridge
Description
Annotated 'Kealboy Br.' (Droichead an Chaoil Bhuí/ Bridge of the yellow stream) on the 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map which is a road bridge located at the townland boundary between Cloonlara and Bushmount.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1915–1925 · Regional interest
Description
Group of detached buildings forming farmyard complex comprising; detached six-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920 and renovated in late twentieth century; detached three-bay single-storey outbuilding to south, built c. 1820, and detached three-bay double-height triple-gable-fronted barrel-roofed outbuilding to south, built in latter part of twentieth century. Pitched artificial slate roof to house. Corrugated-iron roofs to outbuildings. Painted rendered walls, with brown brick facing to south-west façade. Pair of gateways, built c. 1820, to south comprising rubble stone piers with wrought-iron gates.
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
- 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_166 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonlara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonlara
- Area
- 702,824 m² (70.28 ha, 173.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Molahiffe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Molahiffe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Molahiffe electoral division: 1,718 people in 611 households; 79% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bohereens, Bushmount, Castlefarm, Inchinveema
- Placenames
- Cloonlara 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.