Cloonaquin

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonaquin, from 274 m² to 1,509,140 m² (150.91 ha, 372.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Cloonaquin 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 Feb 2019Conditional

  construction of a new forestry road entrance including all associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 1931

• 14 Aug 2018Conditional

  the construction of a new straw bedded shed together with all associated site works

  Permission · Leitrim County Council, 18175

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 Gill SAC 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE011-026 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Indicated as a small oval embanked enclosure (max. ext. dim. c. 20m E-W) on the 1835 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, it is located towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of Benbo Mountain, in an area of hilly scrub and rock outcrop. No features is visible at ground level in grass and scrub. 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/revision: 13 December 2011

• LE011-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the foot of the E-facing slope of Benbo Mountain c. 150-200m from the W bank of the N-S Bonet River. Grass-covered circular area (int. diam. 25.8m N-S) defined by an intermittently visible, overgrown, earthen bank, which is best preserved N-E (Wth c. 2m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.7m), and is incorporated into a field wall S-W. There is no visible fosse and an 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

• LE011-028 Enclosure
  Description

  In an area of marshy grassland and rock outcrop on the W bank of the N-S Bonet River with the stream c. 100-140m distant. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (dim. 19m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.45m) at E and W and by an overgrown earth and stone bank (Wth 2.4m; H 0.25m) at S. There is no visible fosse and an 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

• LE011-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a small drumlin of the floor of the Bonet river valley overlooking Coolnaquin Lough (max. dims c. 150m NNE-SSW; c. 90m NW-SE) c. 100m to the N. This is an overgrown, circular area (int. diam. 17.5m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a round-topped, steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1m), reduced to a scarp at E, and an external fosse (Wth 2.1m). It is within a wood. 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

• LE011-115 Burial ground
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture in a low-lying position close to the Bonet River. Marked 'Calderagh' and depicted faintly as a small rectangular enclosure only on the latest edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an area where buried timbers, thought to be coffins, were recovered c. 1880 (OSFM). It is not visible at ground level. 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 Cloonaquin.

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 Cloonaquin, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1367 (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.

No address of the register names Cloonaquin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cloonaquin · Cluain Mhic Cuinn

Area

4,232,012 m² (423.2 ha, 1,045.75 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonlogher, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Lurganboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

444 people lived in 169 households in the Lurganboy electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boggaun, Boihy, Cloonlogher, Gortgarrigan, Gortnaskeagh, Srabrick

Placenames

Cloonaquin 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.