Clonbarrow
Clonbarrow is a townland in the civil parish of Clonenagh and Clonagheen, barony of Maryborough West, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Cluain Beara.
- Area
- 76.6 ha
- 189 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 26,754 m² (2.68 ha, 6.61 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonbarrow, from 206 m² to 177,952 m² (17.8 ha, 43.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Clonbarrow 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
7 Sept 2021Conditional
amend the site boundary of previously granted file No. 360/78 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21626
15 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, secondary sewage treatment system with polishing filter and entrance
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21222
6 Sept 2018Conditional
retain an existing telecommunications installation comprised of a 20m monopole, antennas, dishes, associated equipment, cabinets and fencing. The development is required to maintain existing/provide additional mobile and broadband services
Retention · Laois County Council, 18549
5 Sept 2018N/a
retain an existing telecommunications installation comprised of a 20m monopole, antennas, dishes, associated equipment, cabinets and fencing. The development is required to maintain existing/provide additional mobile and broadband services
Retention · Laois County Council, 18544
20 Aug 2018N/a
retain an existing telecommunications installation comprised of a 20m monopole, antennas, dishes, associated equipment, cabinets and fencing. The development is required to maintain existing/provide additional mobile and broadband services
Retention · Laois County Council, 18514
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 Clonbarrow.
Recorded monuments
- LA017-001 Moated site
Description
Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map; a subrectangular enclosure (max. dims. c. 40m E-W; 25m N-S). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonbarrow.
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 Clonbarrow, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2029 (ZIP).
- 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 Clonbarrow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Clonbarrow · Cluain Beara
- Area
- 766,066 m² (76.61 ha, 189.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Maryborough West
- Electoral division
- Mountrath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,681 people lived in 962 households in the Mountrath electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Clonbarrow 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.