Cloncurry

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncurry, from 13 m² to 113,505 m² (11.35 ha, 28.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
  Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  for (A) erection of a storey and a half type house, (B) garage for domestic use, (C) installation of proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area, (D) bored well and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2460763

• 24 Oct 2022Refused

  (a) 2 no. detached two-storey type dwellings, (b) with detached domestic garages, (c) provision for upgrade works to existing farm access road to provide new vehicular entrance, (d) installation of effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 221255

• 29 Sept 2021Conditional

  for (A) the erection of a single storey extension to side (north) elevation of existing bungalow to form a family flat linked to the main residence and (B) the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment plant with sand polishing filter percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211394

• 9 Sept 2021Refused

  to continue to use the building (when refurbished) for residential rehabilitation use. The building was previously in continuous use since 2001 as a rehabilitation facility until it was damaged by a fire in 2018. Planning Permission is sought to repair and rebuild the fire damaged building and provide a rear single storey extension of 60m2. The building comprises 8 double bedrooms, shower room, toilets, staff room, plant room, gym, kitchen/utility, reception/office, stores, day rooms and resident rooms. The works include new fire safety systems, emergency lighting and fire escape doors. The total floor area of the extended single storey building will be 582.9m2. The building footprint will be smaller than the fire damaged building. All

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211289

• 11 Aug 2021Conditional

  single storey extension to rear/side together with new proprietary wastewater treatment system

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 211157

• 2 Dec 2020Conditional

  the construction of a side and rear extension to existing industrial building and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201472

• 23 Nov 2020N/a

  for the construction of a side and rear extension to existing industrial building and all associated site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 201410

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  constructing an agricultural vehicular entrance, and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18482

• 5 Mar 2018N/a

  construction of an agricultural vehicular entrance, and all ancillary site-works

  Permission · Kildare County Council, 18215

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: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• KD004-021001 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  A borough was established at Cloncurry in the thirteenth century on the site of an important pre-Norman church (KD004-021002-). The precise location and extent of the settlement is debated, but Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 2, 155-67) have identified two probable locations: one in the vicinity of the church (KD004-021005-) and motte (KD004-021003-) and the second (and, in their opinion, possibly the more likely) c. 700m to the S where a cross-base (KD004-021007-) lies. Their principal evidence is the hollow-way (KD004-021008-/KD004-021009-) in the vicinity of the cross, the occurrence of the name 'The Green' in this area on Netterville's 1752 map of Michael Aylmer's Estate, and evidence of settlement along the curving road (hollow way) shown on the same map (NLI Map 21 f. 50(4)). The Manor of Cloncurry comprised the following elements; an early church site (KD004-021002-), a motte (KD004-021003-), an unclassified castle (KD004-021004-), a medieval church (KD004-021005-) and graveyard (KD004-021016-), a friary site (KD004-021006-), a cross-base (KD004-021007-) and a hollow way (KD004-021008-/KD004-021009-). Historical information, including a list of tenants, is recorded in an Extent (or inventory/survey) of the Manor of Cloncurry on November 8th, 1304 (O'Loan 1961, 1-23). Archaeological testing and excavation in advance of the Kinnegad-Enfield-Kilcock Motorway Scheme revealed evidence of possible medieval field boundary ditches (KD004-021013-), possible medieval pits (KD004-021014-) and a possible medieval building (KD004-021015-) in the area. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 312; Murphy and Holton 1999, 97-106) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021003 Castle - motte
  Description

  A tall, steep-sided, flat-topped, earthen mound (H. c. 12m; base diam. 37m; summit diam. 12.5m). The summit is enclosed by a low bank, and the base is girdled by a broad fosse (Wth.6.5m), and an external earthen bank is visible SW-N-NE. The site was the nucleus of the original Manor of Cloncurry, granted to Adam de Hereford before 1176. It was described in an extent of 1304 as, 'a moat on which is situated a one roomed building with a wooden roof, which is not vaulted as no one is interested to rent' (O'Loan 1961, 2). The motte was erected close to the highest point of a ridge and down slope from the church (KD004-021005-). (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 2, 158-60) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021005 Church
  Description

  According to Bradley et al. (1986, vol. 2, 161-63), Adam de Hereford granted the church of Cloncurry to St. Thomas' Abbey, Dublin. In a later grant (1206-14) the church was named as SS Mary and Martin, but was still referred to as St. Ninian's in 1491. At the centre of a small graveyard (KD004-021010-) on an early ecclesiastical foundation (KD004-021002-) which was subsequently developed as an Anglo-Norman borough (KD004-021001-). The fairly poorly preserved remains of a 15th century structure comprising a nave (int. dims. L 20.75m; Wth 8m) and rebuilt chancel (int. dims. L c. 10m; Wth 5.7m) of roughly coursed limestone masonry. Most of the quoins are missing but the door jambs are of limestone and sandstone. The nave is represented by the S and W walls (both battered and the latter standing close to full height) and the collapsed rubble of the N wall. There is a centrally placed rectangular doorway with a segmental arch in the S wall and to its E only lower courses of walling survive. The W gable has two narrow pointed opes with narrow splays and round rear arches and is capped with a double bellcote. A gap in the collapsed masonry of the N wall may indicate a second doorway, opposite the one in the S wall. The junction between the nave and chancel is missing and the chancel was rebuilt as an Aylmer mausoleum in the 18 century when the original window in the E gable was blocked up and a modern window inserted. There is also an inserted window in the N wall. The S wall of the chancel is featureless except for an inserted cusped ogee-headed ope with concave chamfers of pink sandstone, at the W end. The surviving remains may post-date 1405, when the village of Cloncurry was burnt (Gilbert 1889, 268; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 312; Meagher 1979-80, 118) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021007 Cross
  Description

  Lies c. 650m to the S of a medieval church (KD004-021005-). A square cross-base (dims. 0.59m; 0.59m; H. 0.38m) contains a rectangular mortice (dims. L 0.24m; Wth 0.20m; D. 0.19m) and has chamfered upper edges upon which the word AMEN is carved in false relief. According to local tradition, a Carmelite Friary (KD004-021006-) once stood in the same field as the cross. (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 163). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021008 Road - hollow-way
  Description

  Recorded on Netterville's 1752 map of Michael Aylmer's estate (NLI Map 21 f. 50(4)) and suggested as the possible location of the medieval borough of Cloncurry (KD004-021001-) by Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 2, 155-67). In level pasture. Visible as a broad sunken trackway (Wth. 7- 8m; D 1.5m) running approximately NE - SW (traceable L c. 600m) before forking at its SW end; one section running NW (L c. 80m) and the other SW (L c. 80m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021010 Enclosure
  Description

  Visible on a 1969 aerial photograph (CUCAP AYR46). In gently undulating, poorly drained pasture, c. 100m NE of a fine motte (KD004-021003-.) A small square enclosure (dims. L 26m; Wth 26m) is conjoined with a smaller rectangular enclosure (dims. L 25m; Wth 15m) and both are defined by shallow fosses. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021015 Building
  Description

  In 2001, pre-development, archaeological test-trenching (Licence no. 01E0264: www.excavations.ie) at the site of a proposed road-widening and junction improvement scheme at the N4-Cloncurry crossroads involved nine trenches being opened, three of which (nos. 2, 8 and 9) produced archaeological material. Trench 2 measured 10m north-east/south-west by 1.7m and contained the foundations of a stone building running east-west and then turning at right angles to run north-south. A parallel outer ditch or foundation trench was also noted. Ten sherds of medieval pottery were also recovered. Trench 8 measured 10m north-west/south-east by 1.6m and produced evidence of a substantial pit, or possible structure, containing twenty sherds of medieval pottery. A medieval hearth and possible medieval boundary were also identified. Trench 9 measured 10m north-south by 1.6m and also produced significant evidence for medieval activity in the form of ditches or boundary features, large burnt spreads, or burnt structures, and layered deposits. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-021016 Graveyard
  Description

  Some 40m SE of a fine motte (KD004-021003-). An almost square area (dims. N-S c. 66m; E-W c. 66m) is enclosed by a stone wall, and contains a medieval church (KD004-021005-). An index of the graveyard records is available on the web, where the earliest burial listed is 1683 (Ireland Genealogy Project Archives, www.igp-web.com/igparchives/ire/kildare/.../cloncurry.txt) [Accessed 29 March 2011]. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

• KD004-051 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 22m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Edward O'Riordan. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 28/06/2018. Date of upload: 6 November 2018

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1912–1962 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, extant 1962. Now disused. Road fronted on grass verge.

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_2616 (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 Cloncurry with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Cloncurry · Cluain Chonaire

Area

735,613 m² (73.56 ha, 181.77 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncurry, and its townlands

Barony

Ikeathy and Oughterany

Electoral division

Cloncurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloncurry electoral division: 1,648 people in 512 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderrin (Co. Meath), Ballycarn (Co. Meath), Ballynakill, Ballyvoneen, Kilbrook, Rathtroane (Co. Meath)

Placenames

Cloncurry 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.