Cloncrew

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncrew, from 7,664 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres) to 272,417 m² (27.24 ha, 67.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cloncrew 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.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of: (a) Cubicle House with slatted tank & over an existing slatted tank, (b) Milking Parlour with Drafting Area, (c) Feed Bin, (d) entrance and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660328

• 24 Jul 2020Conditional

  Construction of (a) milking parlour with collection yard and slatted tank, (b) silage pit and (c) bulk feed storage bin.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 20/5580

• 31 Jan 2007Conditional

  Construction of overground steel slurry tower

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/4623

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 Cloncrew.

Recorded monuments

• LI054-028001 Church
  Description

  At N end of graveyard (LI054-028002-). Only part of W gable, and E gable with short returns of N (L 0.4m) and S (L 1.5m), now stand of formerly rectangular ( c. 22m E-W; 6m N-S) parish church of Cloncrew (Westropp 1904-5, 415-6). Built of small uncoursed stones. East gable completely masked by ivy but appears to stand to full height; central window embrasure much-ruined but has single pointed sandstone light (ibid., plate 10). West gable missing either end, also masked with ivy. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-028002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, close to E bank of River Deel. Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank, with entrance gate on S side. In occasional use and maintained. At N end fragmentary remains of parish church of Cloncrew (LI054-028001-). Earliest headstone noted dated 1767, lies within area of church; many late-18th, 19th and 20th century headstones. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, close to E bank of River Deel. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 0.5m). Base of scarp truncated NE->SE by field boundary; cattle have worn paths across scarp at NW, N and SE, otherwise scarp covered by dense overgrowth. Interior is level and under pasture which is heavily poached by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-030 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope below brow of hillock. Sub-rectangular area (57m N-S; 46m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank W->NE and by scarp edge NE->W. Bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.85m), best preserved W->N, forms angular corner jutting into interior NNE->NE before running down-slope to E. Scarp edge (ext, H 0.85m), very difficult to differentiate from natural terrain gradient along E side, best preserved S->W. Uneven interior, slopes down sharply to S before rising up into NE quadrant. According to landowner, interior, now under pasture, was known as a sand pit and may have been quarried out. NE quadrant and E side heavily masked by vegetation cover. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI054-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough marshy pasture, atop low rise with higher ground to ENE. Circular area (35.5m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth ) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 5.4m). Scarp is best preserved N->SE. Fosse, waterlogged along W side, is heavily masked by furze. Field boundary, thickly covered with briars, skirts around outer edge of fosse. Gap (Wth 2m) in field boundary at ESE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to SW. Field boundaries abut enclosure at WSW, N and NNE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloncrew, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_698 (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 Cloncrew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cloncrew · Cluain Creamha

Area

675,255 m² (67.53 ha, 166.86 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncrew, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolnagour (Co. Cork), Coolnaknockane, Gortaheeda (Co. Cork), Highmount, Highmount, Kinteera (Co. Cork), Moanavraca (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Cloncrew 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.