Cloonclare

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonclare, from 71 m² to 30,091 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Cloonclare 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloonclare in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonclare.

Recorded monuments

• LE011-019001 Church
  Description

  Situated in an undulating landscape on the floor of the Bonet River valley. This is the parish church of Cloonclare, which is listed in the Register of Clonmacnoise (O'Donovan 1857, 451; Pinkman 1942, 34). It is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 45m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. It is an undi vided nave and chancel (int. dims 18.35m E-W; 6.6m N-S), of which only the W gable and parts of the adjacent walls survive (Wth 1.1m; max. H 6m) complete with dressed quoins. The other walls are reduced to foundations and cairn material (H c. 1m). There is a fragment of a door jamb in the S wall and a destroyed window ope in the W gable. A N transept (int. dims 5m N-S; 4.3m E-W) survives almost complete (H 3m), except for part of the E wall, and contains a single-light ogee-headed window in the W wall. A sandstone image carved three quarters in the round (L 0.76m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.18m) is in the church and represents a female figure in repose. The head is missing although the pillow on which it rested survives. It is wearing a cloak and the ruff at the neck indicates a late 16th or early 17th century date. It may represent a child, or be one figure from a larger memorial. 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

• LE011-019002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in an undulating landscape on the floor of the Bonet River valley. The parish church of Cloonclare (LE011-019001-) is within a subrectangular graveyard (dims 45m NE-SW; 40m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Date of upload: 23 September, 2008

• LE011-019003 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  Classified as an ecclesiastical enclosure in the SMR (1988). There is no evidence of an enclosure around the parish church of Cloonclare (LE011-019001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2016

• LE011-019004 Tomb - effigial
  Description

  A sandstone image carved three quarters in the round (L 0.76m; Wth 0.3m; H 0.18m) is in the church of Cloonclare (LE011-019001-) and represents a female figure in repose. The head is missing, although the pillow on which it rested survives. It is wearing a cloak and the ruff at the neck indicates a late 16th or early 17th century date. It may represent a child, or be one figure from a larger memorial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonclare, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1394 (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 Cloonclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cloonclare · Cluain Chláir

Area

46,594 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonclare, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Manorhamilton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,064 people lived in 854 households in the Manorhamilton electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 48% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ramooney, Ross, Tawnymanus

Placenames

Cloonclare 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.