Cloonlogher
Cloonlogher is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonlogher, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Cluain Lothair.
- Area
- 186 ha
- 460 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 22,264 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonlogher, from 511 m² to 246,874 m² (24.69 ha, 61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonlogher 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cloonlogher 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
Recorded monuments
- LE011-029 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Situated on the summit of a low rise on the E bank of the N-S Bonet River with the stream c. 50m to the W. This is an overgrown circular area (int. diam. 27m E-W) defined by a grass and scrub-covered stone spread (Wth 3m; H 0.9m) with the intermittently visible facing-stones of a wall (Wth 1.25m). 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
- LE011-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a NW-facing slope in the valley of the Bonet River with a small lake (dims c. 160m NE-SW; c. 100m NW-SE) c. 100m to the NW. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (int. diam. 23m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by a steep-sided earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.15m) and hedge with traces of facing-stones. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. 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
- LE011-058001 Church
Description
Situated on a gentle rise on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley, with a N-S section of the stream c. 130m to the W. Clonlogher may have been an ancient church site as the Erenagh lands were granted to the bishop of Kilmore in 1663 (Lewis 1837, 1, 366) and the parish is divided between the Church and Sir George Villiers of Dromahaire castle (LE014-008001-), according to the Down Survey (1656-8) barony map, for which see this web-page accessed on 20/04/2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Drumaheir&c=Leitrim&p=Clooneclare+and+Clonlogher The parish church of Cloonlogher is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 58m NE-SW; 38m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. The church, which could be as late as the 17th century, is a rectangular structure (int. dims 14.4m ENE-WSW; 5.9m NNW-SSE) built of randomly coursed masonry walls (Wth 0.7m; H c. 4m) with dressed quoins, and it survives almost complete. There is a destroyed doorway towards the W end of the S wall and a large rectangular window opening in the E gable, with smaller windows in the N and S walls. There are two single square-headed opes in the W gable. Davies (ITA 1942) recorded fragments of a window jamb, but they are no longer in the graveyard. See the attached view of the church taken from the S. 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 revised upload: 20 April, 2016
- LE011-058002 Graveyard
Description
Situated on a gentle rise on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley, with a N-S section of the stream c. 130m to the W. The parish church of Cloonclogher (LE011-058001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 58m NE-SW; 38m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls, but the present church remains could be 17th century in date. Date of upload: 23 September, 2008
- LE011-058003 Architectural fragment
Description
Davies (ITA 1942) recorded fragments of a window jamb at Cloonlogher church (LE011-058001-), but they are no longer in the graveyard. Date of upload: 20 April, 2016
- LE011-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin on the floor of the NE-SW Bonet River valley. Grass-covered circular area (diam. 48m E-W; 46m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.35m) NW-N which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1-2m) with some trees elsewhere. A shallow outer fosse (Wth 2m) is intermittently visible, but 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
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonlogher.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonlogher, 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 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonlogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonlogher · Cluain Lothair
- Area
- 1,859,757 m² (185.98 ha, 459.56 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, Carrickleitrim, Cloonaquin, Cornastauk, Larkfield, Ross, Srabrick
- Placenames
- Cloonlogher 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.