Cloncanon Upper

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncanon Upper, from 581 m² to 130,766 m² (13.08 ha, 32.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Cloncanon Upper 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.

• 14 Dec 2023Conditional

  construct a new two storey dwelling house with waste water treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 23290

• 8 Sept 2023N/a

  retain porch to front and extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling

  Retention · Laois County Council, 2360365

• 8 Sept 2023Conditional

  retain porch to front and extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360370

• 3 Nov 2020Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, new splayed entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 20566

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 Cloncanon Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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 Cloncanon Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cloncanon Upper · Cluain Canann Uachtarach

Area

842,412 m² (84.24 ha, 208.16 acres)

Civil parish

Rosenallis, and its townlands

Barony

Tinnahinch

Electoral division

O'Moresforest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

O'Moresforest electoral division: 513 people in 167 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoyle, Barkmill, Clonaheen, Cloncanon Lower, Omoresforest

Placenames

Cloncanon Upper 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.