Cloghan

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan, from 267 m² to 156,501 m² (15.65 ha, 38.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Cloghan 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.

• 20 Dec 2019N/a

  for the upgrade of an existing farm entrance to a forestry standard entrance

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19287

• 22 Oct 2019Conditional

  construction of a sun room to the side elevation as well as a porch to the front elevation of the existing dwelling house. (The original dwelling was granted planning approval under P.5023)

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 19214

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: Lough Melvin SAC 000428
• Natural Heritage Area: Aghavoghil Bog NHA 002430
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Melvin 000428

Recorded monuments

• LE002-034 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1909 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E bank of a small S-N stream and c. 10m from the S shore of Lough Melvin. This is an overgrown oval area (dims 18m E-W; 15m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.85m at N) with no evidence of a fosse. The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Cloghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cloghan · An Clochán

Area

725,523 m² (72.55 ha, 179.28 acres)

Civil parish

Rossinver, and its townlands

Barony

Rosclogher

Electoral division

Melvin, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Lissiniska, Mautiagh, Moher, Roosky, Shasgar

Placenames

Cloghan 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.