Cloncumber

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncumber, from 1,781 m² to 519,516 m² (51.95 ha, 128.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Cloncumber 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.

• 20 Sept 2024Conditional

  for 1. A single storey extension to the side, 2.Upgrading the waste water treatment system, and 3. All associated site development works. Revised by Significant Further Information which consists of retention permission for the existing garage and shed structures to the rear of the site

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460935

• 18 Sept 2024N/a

  Development will consist of 1. single storey extension to the side, 2.Upgrading the waste water treatment system, and 3. All associated site development works.

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 2460924

• 2 Sept 2022Conditional

  (a) new single storey extension to front of existing dwelling house, (b) new single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, (c) new single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house to include new pitched roof with ridge height to match existing, (d) minor modifications to window arrangement of existing dwelling to include new rooflights, (e) new detached garden room for use as a home office and games room/gym, (f) connection to all existing site services, landscaping and all associated development works on lands

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221074

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  The proposal consists of the development of a multi-use shared leisure route (Blueway), approximately 115 kilometres (km) in length, on the existing navigation towpath, which is a National Waymarked Way. This will include tailored surface finishes, information, directional, and safety signage, and all other associated ancillary works. The route commences in Lowtown, County Kildare, passes through County Laois and finishes in St. Mullins, County Carlow. Approximately 47km of the route is in County Kildare, 16km in County Laois and 52km in County Carlow. An Environmental Impact Statement and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the project and are submitted with the application

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 1781

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

• KD017-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low, gently sloped, E-W pasture ridge in an extensively cleared and now huge field, surrounded by bog NW-NE-SE. Described in 1972 as 'a roughly circular ringfort (int. diam. 36m) of platform type, surrounded by a fosse … and traces of a bank (with) an entrance on the N side' (SMR file). The monument stands raised above the surrounding ground (H 1-2m) but is completely planted with pine trees, except along the N perimeter upon which cleared field-material is dumped. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 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_2499 (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 Cloncumber with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Cloncumber

Area

1,900,123 m² (190.01 ha, 469.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeage, and its townlands

Barony

Connell

Electoral division

Kilmeage South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeage South electoral division: 2,224 people in 743 households; 72% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintine, Ballyteige North, Ballyteige South, Drumsru, Drumsru, Feighcullen, Killeagh, Newpark, Pluckerstown, Pluckerstown

Placenames

Cloncumber 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.