Clonlyon
Clonlyon is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmanman, barony of Tinnahinch, Co. Laois. Its name in Irish is Cluain Laighean.
- Area
- 214.5 ha
- 530 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 13,146 m² (1.31 ha, 3.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonlyon, from 315 m² to 105,847 m² (10.58 ha, 26.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Clonlyon 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
15 Jun 2026N/a
retain modifications carried out to an existing agricultural unit, including raising the external walls/roof and increasing the overall height of the building structure and full permission for the change of use from an agricultural building to a 2-Bedroom dwelling unit including upgrade of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660371
15 Jun 2026N/a
retain modifications carried out to an existing agricultural unit, including raising the external walls/roof and increasing the overall height of the building structure and full permission for the change of use from an agricultural building to a 2-Bedroom dwelling unit including upgrade of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Retention, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2660372
10 Jun 2026N/a
modifications carried out to an existing agricultural unit, including raising the external walls/roof and increasing the overall height of the building structure and full permission for the change of use from an agricultural building to a 2-Bedroom dwelling unit including upgrade of the existing on-site wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
Retention · Laois County Council, 2660361
16 Sept 2025Conditional
retain amendments to addition to existing dwelling house
Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2583
29 Jul 2024Conditional
construct a rear and side single storey extension, installation of new wastewater treatment system, carry out internal and elevational alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 24109
18 Jul 2024N/a
construct a rear and side single storey extension, installation of new wastewater treatment system, carry out internal and elevational alterations to existing dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 24102
21 Nov 2023Conditional
alter planning reference No. 23/60136, alter boundaries, location & position of dwelling house & garage, site entrance and to include all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360496
19 Oct 2023N/a
alter the boundaries, location & position of dwelling house, Garage, and site entrance and to include all associated site works in relation to Planning Reference No. 23/60136
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360436
6 Oct 2023N/a
amend Planning Reference No. 23/60136 for Alteration to Boundaries, location & position of Dwelling House, site entrance and to include all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 2360416
7 Apr 2023Conditional
for a proposed Dormer Bungalow, Garage, Site Entrance, Septic Tank & Percolation Area and to include all associated site works..
Permission, 2 homes · Laois County Council, 2360136
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Clonaslee Eskers and Derry Bog SAC 000859
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonaslee Eskers And Derry Bog 000859
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonlyon.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonlyon.
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 Clonlyon, about 1 in 10 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 Clonlyon.
- 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 Clonlyon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.
The townland
- Name
- Clonlyon · Cluain Laighean
- Area
- 2,144,634 m² (214.46 ha, 529.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmanman, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tinnahinch
- Electoral division
- Castlecuffe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 423 people lived in 136 households in the Castlecuffe electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacarrig (Co. Offaly), Clonshannagh (Co. Offaly), Coolagh, Cormeen (Co. Offaly), Derries (Co. Offaly)
- Placenames
- Clonlyon 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.