Clooncumber
Townland in the civil parish of Cloone, barony of Mohill, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Cluain Comair
- Area
- 179.5 ha
- 444 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 13,236 m² (1.32 ha, 3.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncumber, from 839 m² to 149,271 m² (14.93 ha, 36.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 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 Clooncumber 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
20 Jan 2026Unconditional
extension of duration for 3 years
Extension of duration · Leitrim County Council, 2603
20 Dec 2023Conditional
Proposed Construction of a two storey type dwelling house; Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Suitable Onsite Treatment System With Polishing Filter and all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2360171
14 Dec 2020Conditional
for proposed construction of a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 20219
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: Cloonageeher Bog NHA 001423
Recorded monuments
- LE038-001 Bridge
Description
Situated on level pasture spanning a S-N section of the meandering Black River, c. 500m from where it meets the N-S Rinn River further W. A footbridge and weir are marked at this location on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 31). Only a patch of rubble suggests the former presence of the bridge, but the river is now in a narrow channel and there is no local knowledge of such a structure. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October 2010 Amended: 7 January 2020
- LE038-001002 Weir - regulating
Description
Situated on level pasture spanning a S-N section of the meandering Black River, c. 500m from where it meets the N-S Rinn River further W. A footbridge and weir are marked at this location on an estate map (Wogan 1750, 31). There is no evidence of a weir in the river, which is now in a narrow channel and there is no local knowledge of such a structure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 18 October 2010 Amended: 7 January 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncumber.
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 Clooncumber.
- 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 Clooncumber with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncumber · Cluain Comair
- Area
- 1,795,010 m² (179.5 ha, 443.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Mohill
- Electoral division
- Beihy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Beihy electoral division: 336 people in 130 households; 92% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellageeher, Cloonageeher (Co. Longford), Cloonlaughil, Cloontubbrid, Tooman
- Placenames
- Clooncumber 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.