Clooncarreen
Townland in the civil parish of Mohill, barony of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Cluain Cairín
- Area
- 336.8 ha
- 832 acres
- Land parcels
- 160
- registered freehold, median 8,833 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
160 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncarreen, from 38 m² to 141,613 m² (14.16 ha, 34.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 69 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clooncarreen 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
1 Aug 2023Conditional
(A) the construction of a porch and office extension to the south elevation of an existing bungalow type dwelling house to include internal and external alteration to same, (B) the retentionof single storey extensions to the west elevation and north elevation of the existing dwelling house, (C) the retention of domestic garage and (D) permission for boundary timber post and rail fencing, entrance wing fencing and gates, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360061
19 Dec 2022Conditional
(a) construction of a detached dwelling house, (b) domestic garage; (c) onsite Wastewater treatment system with connections to services and associated site development
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22261
30 Jun 2021Conditional
retain the following relating to development previously Granted under Planning file P.14206: Site access, domestic garage, amended site boundaries , additional use of rear garden as outdoor preschool facility, additional use of utility/toilet arear of dwelling house as staff facilities associated with outdoor preschool facility, ancillary structures associated with the outdoor preschool facility and all associated site development works and Planning Permission to decommission existing and install upgraded wastewater treatment system in accordance with section 1.3 of the EPA CoP Domestic waste water treatment systems (Population Equivalent 10) and for proposed intensification of use of existing preschool facility
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 21135
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Rinn River NHA 000691
- Natural Heritage Area: Cashel Bog (Leitrim) NHA 001405
Recorded monuments
- LE037-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a low NNW-SSE drumlin ridge. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 38.5m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m at S to 6.1m at W; int. H 0.2-0.5m generally to 0.9m at W; ext. H 0.5m at S to 1.3-1.9m generally) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.8-6m; Wth of base 0.5-1.8m; ext. D 1-1.4m) which is disturbed at SE by a field bank. 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. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 7 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncarreen.
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
- About 1 in 20 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 Clooncarreen.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clooncarreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncarreen · Cluain Cairín
- Area
- 3,367,901 m² (336.79 ha, 832.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mohill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Mohill
- Electoral division
- Cashel, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cashel electoral division: 184 people in 73 households; 86% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Clooncarreen 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.