Cloghast

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghast, from 1,229 m² to 344,798 m² (34.48 ha, 85.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cloghast 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.

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  the erection of a calf shed, adjacent manure pit, effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2575

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  the existing dwelling house, domestic garage and entrance as constructed with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19778

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 Cloghast.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-217 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 25m W of a watercourse. Possible barrow (LI049-218----) lies 70m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible barrow listed as ‘Cloghast 2’ by Grogan (1989, 223). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 October 2021

• LI049-218 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 25m E of a watercourse. Possible barrow (LI049-217----) lies 70m to SW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible barrow listed as ‘Cloghast 1’ by Grogan (1989, 223). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 13 October 2021

• LI049-280 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland, enclosure (LI049-97----) 60m to W. Outline of circular-shaped sunken area (approx. diam. 7m) visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005 and Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a small barrow or a pond feature associated with water channel immediately to S. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 September 2020

• LI049-282 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped sunken area (approx. diam. 7m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a small barrow. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 September 2020

• LI049-283 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of semi-circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 6m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Could be the remains of a small barrow or may be natural feature associated with old watercourse the channel of which is clearly visible on Digital Globe imagery.. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 24 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloghast, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghast.

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 Cloghast with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cloghast · Cloch an Chasta

Area

1,351,938 m² (135.19 ha, 334.07 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry (Kilmallock Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Glenbrohane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

474 people lived in 186 households in the Glenbrohane electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Glenbrohane, Glenlary, Knocklary, Mitchelstowndown, Mitchelstowndown East, Mitchelstowndown West

Placenames

Cloghast 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.