Cloone
Townland in the civil parish of Rossinver, barony of Rosclogher, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Chluain
- Area
- 128.1 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 3,207 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloone, from 261 m² to 111,940 m² (11.19 ha, 27.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Leitrim County Development Plan 2023-2029, Leitrim · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Apr 2025Conditional
the erection of a storey-and-a-half type dwelling house (117m2), proposed connection to public sewer, and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560101
30 Apr 2025Conditional
the erection of a bungalow type dwelling house (150m2) and domestic garage (51m2), proposed connection to public sewer, and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560102
21 Dec 2023Conditional
(1) an existing balcony structure and balustrade to the rear the existing domestic dwelling, (2) alterations to the rear elevation of the existing domestic dwelling; (3) To alter existing site boundaries and all ancillary works
Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2360173
17 Nov 2022Conditional
(a) construct a single storey domestic dwelling, (b) construct a new site entrance, (c)construct a domestic garage, (d) construct a waste water treatment system to current EPA code of practice and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 22237
22 May 2017Conditional
construct an extension to existing single storey house, extending it to the rear and adding an additional storey to create a storey-and-a-half type dwellinghouse, including the replacement of the existing septic tank with a proprietary domestic effluent treatment system and all associated site works on site
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 17100
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kinlough Wood 001415
Recorded monuments
- LE002-011 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a steep-sided hillock. Overgrown, subcircular platform (dim. 31m WNW-ESE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; H 0.3m) E-S-W which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) elsewhere, with facing-stones visible at ENE. The monument is bisected by a WNW-ESE field wall and is in woodland S of this feature and rough pasture N of it. 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
- LE002-012 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On the NE-facing slope of a hill. Circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 27.5m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a collapsed grass and scrub-covered stone-spread (Wth c. 2.6m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.95m at SW), which has been removed by a quarry NE-E. 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
- LE002-049 Sweathouse
Description
Reported (28-9-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Depicted but not named on the Cassini edition of the O.S. 6-inch map where it is shown incorporated into a roughly N-S field boundary which has since been removed. In pasture, a partially collapsed, drystone-built, sub-circular chamber (diams. 1.42m by 1.39m; H 0.72m) the interior of which is filled with collapsed stone from the former roof. The monument is incorporated into a circular (diam. 3.1m) surrounding mound with a gap (Wth. 0.6m; H 0.3m) at NNW. See attached images: • LE002-049----_1 The sweathouse in a photo taken by W A Greene (1880-1940), now in the National Museums NI, Catogue No. HOYFM.WAG.1420. Note. Forge Town is the name of the cross roads c. 250m SW of this sweathouse at Cloone. (https://www.nmni.com/collections/history/photographs/green-collection) • LE002-049----_2 View from north on 12/08/2021. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 3 November 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloone.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1302 (ZIP).
- 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 Cloone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Cloone · An Chluain
- Area
- 1,281,123 m² (128.11 ha, 316.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rossinver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rosclogher
- Electoral division
- Kinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kinlough electoral division: 1,036 people in 395 households; 65% of households own their home; 59% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadunvane, Agharoosky, Ballymore, Kinlough, Moneen
- Placenames
- Cloone 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.