Cloonsillagh
Cloonsillagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltomy, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Cluain Saileach.
- Area
- 47.3 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 2,538 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 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 Cloonsillagh, from 51 m² to 427,404 m² (42.74 ha, 105.61 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 Cloonsillagh 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
17 Jun 2021Conditional
(A) PLANNING PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED FIRST FLOOR ATTIC ACCOMMODATION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR INSITU STORAGE/SOLID FUEL SHED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE (C) RETENTION PERMISSION FOR INSITU SHED TO REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND (D) PLANNING PERMISSION TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO A MECHANICAL TREATMENT UNTI AND POLISHING FILTER
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21651
24 Aug 2020Conditional
(A) MAKE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES (ON ALL SIDES) TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERING THE ROOF STRUCTURE AND (B) CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE / SHED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS WELL AS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20751
8 May 2018Conditional
(A) DEMOLISH EXISTING STORAGE SHED (B) CONSTRUCT A NEW SHED WHICH WILL BE USED TO STORE VEHICLES, TOOLS AND SOLID FUEL (C) CONSTRUCT NEW ENTRANCE WALLS AND MAKE MINOR CHANGES TO EXISTING FRONT WALL
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18424
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
Recorded monuments
- KE015-124 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diameter 20m NW-SE, 29m NE-SW This univallate rath is situated in a corner of a field, The fieldbank to the S is the townland boundary between this townland and Crotta. The site consists of a sub-circular area enclosed by a well-defined earthen bank. Traces of an exterior fosse can be noted to the N through E to S, but it is not distinguishable elsewhere due to the erection of fieldbanks. The enclosing bank is c 6m wide at the base and rises to a maximum of 1.4m externally and .6m above the interior. The external fosse which survives is c 4m wide and c .3m below the height of the surrounding land. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 542. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonsillagh.
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 Cloonsillagh, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonsillagh.
- 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 Cloonsillagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonsillagh · Cluain Saileach
- Area
- 472,813 m² (47.28 ha, 116.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltomy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballincloher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 461 people lived in 171 households in the Ballincloher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyreehan West, Crotta, Garrynagore, Irrabeg, Liscullane
- Placenames
- Cloonsillagh 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.