Cloneen

230 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloneen, from 53 m² to 286,154 m² (28.62 ha, 70.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 57 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloneen 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  is sought to construct a bungalow, install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, construct a new vehicular entrance and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660617

• 7 Sept 2026N/a

  for domestic garage/store and home office as constructed and all associated works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2660569

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  to construct a bungalow, install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, construct a new vehicular entrance and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2660508

• 8 Dec 2025Conditional

  for demolition of existing detached stables, partial demolition of existing extension to rear of existing house and construction of a part two-storey and part single storey extension to rear of existing house and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560792

• 28 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560767

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  construct a new dairy cow shed to include cubicles, slatted tank, feed passage and all associated site works. An NIS report has been submitted and can be inspected

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2595

• 30 Sept 2025N/a

  construct a new dairy cow shed to include cubices slatted tank, and feed passage.

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2589

• 21 Jul 2025Conditional

  for a single storey storey dwelling, a garage, a septic tank and percolation area, a site entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560440

• 22 Aug 2024Refused

  for 2 no. agricultural storage sheds, hardstand area, access laneway and use of original agricultural entrance with all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460405

• 9 Jul 2024N/a

  for 2 no. agricultural storage sheds, hardstand area, access laneway and use of original agricultural entrance with all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460325

• 7 May 2024Refused

  for development. The development will consist of: (i) All works (within County Kilkenny) associated with the connection of the proposed Seskin Wind Farm to the national electricity grid, via underground 38kV electrical cabling within the public road corridor to the existing Kilkenny 110kV substation; (ii) Provision of 16 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the underground electrical cabling route; (iii) Reinstatement of the road and track surfaces above cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; (iv) Carriageway strengthening works at ‘Black Bridge’ on the L1835 / L3037 (Protected Structure RPS Ref. D84); (v) A new temporary access road off the N78 to the L30372 in the townlands of Cloneen, Co. Kilkenny to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal loads; (vi) All ancillary apparatus and site development works above and below ground.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460210

• 3 May 2024Refused

  for a dormer style dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, using existing entrance and all necessary and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460205

• 20 Mar 2024Conditional

  for alterations and amendments to house type permitted under planning permission reference no 21483 in the planning register and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460136

• 6 Feb 2024Conditional

  permission to retain indefinitely a partially complete steel portal frame structure and associated works and Planning Permission to complete the construction of the community facilities building consisting of meeting rooms, indoor racquetball courts with ancillary facilities, on site car parking, connection to public services, entrance and all associated site works as previously granted under PL. Ref: 17121. This planning application is for a 10-year permission to complete the works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2460048

• 20 Apr 2023N/a

  (a) Retention of Ladies and Gents toilets to Public House (b) Associated Works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2395

• 8 Nov 2022N/a

  for new foul effluent treatment system to rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22715

• 12 Apr 2022Conditional

  for construction of single storey dwelling, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22242

• 25 Jan 2022Conditional

  for alterations to site boundaries as constructed and permission to extend boundary to the side and rear from the permitted under permission Ref No 06/1075 in register and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 2244

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  for domestic garage as constructed and to retain entrance in its current location and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 21949

• 3 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, a domestic garage, a packaged wastewater treatment system and raised soil polishing filter, new entrance, connection to services and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21483

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  is hereby sought for construction of a single storey extension to existing dwelling consisting of bedroom with ensuite, sittingroom, W.C. lobby, small addition to existing scullery and re-roofing of same, pitched roof to existing porch, domestic garage, new foul effluent treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21115

• 10 Nov 2020Conditional

  for new agricultural entrance to lands and all associated site works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20768

• 16 Oct 2020Conditional

  for (i) full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, connection to public mains water supply, new splayed entrance and all associated site works. (ii) Retention permission for a temporary mobile home and services on site for the duration of the construction works

  Permission, 2 homes · Kilkenny County Council, 20696

• 9 Oct 2020Conditional

  to retain indefinitely, a change of use of my domestic garage to pre-school including all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 20672

• 7 Oct 2020N/a

  (i) Full planning permission to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, connection to public mains water supply, new splayed entrance and all associated site works (ii) Retention Permission for a temporary mobile home and services on site for the duration of the construction works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 20665

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloneen.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1825. Refenestrated and extended, c.1950, comprising two-bay single-storey range to left. Undergoing renovation, 2004-5. Hipped roof with oat thatch under plastic barrier, and roughcast squat chimney stack. Pitched artificial slate roof to additional range with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stack, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves board. Painted rendered wall to front (east) elevation over random rubble stone construction (over concrete block construction to additional range) with painted random rubble stone walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with replacement concrete sills, c.1950, and replacement one-over-one timber sash windows, c.1950. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set back from road in own grounds with painted rendered boundary wall to perimeter of site.

• House, 1865–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched cottage, c.1875. Renovated, c.1975. Now disused. Hipped roof with oat thatch having rope work to ridge, and roughcast lime rendered squat chimney stacks over red brick Running bond construction. Unpainted replacement rendered wall, c.1975, to front (east) elevation over random rubble stone construction with limewashed roughcast walls to remainder. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening with tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Interior with hearth, and tongue-and-groove timber panelled ceiling. Set back from road in own grounds.

• Crettyard Bridge, bridge, 1815–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1825. Repaired, c.1975. Random rubble stone walls with unpainted rendered parapets having unpainted roughcast panels, and unpainted rendered piers having cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting remains of iron lamp standard. Single segmental arch with rendered voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning tributary of Dinin River with part-overgrown banks to river.

• Doonane Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch rubble limestone road bridge over river, c.1800. Random rubble limestone walls with rubble limestone triangular cut-water to pier, and rubble limestone coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with squared rubble stone voussoirs, and rendered soffits. Sited spanning Dinin River.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cloneen, about 1 in 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloneen.

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.

• Cloneen, Castlecomer8 sales
• Cloneen, Crettyard6 sales

Name

Cloneen · An Cluainín

Area

3,276,288 m² (327.63 ha, 809.59 acres)

Civil parish

Castlecomer, and its townlands

Barony

Fassadinin

Electoral division

Clogh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,288 people lived in 471 households in the Clogh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogh, Clonbrock (Co. Laois), Crettyard (Co. Laois), Doonane (Co. Laois), Gorteen, Kilgory (Co. Laois), Moneenroe, Toortane

Placenames

Cloneen 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.