Cloonaduff
Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cluain Eanaigh Dhubh
- Area
- 20.4 ha
- 50 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 1,922 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonaduff, from 1,203 m² to 171,020 m² (17.1 ha, 42.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Cloonaduff 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
18 Nov 2025Conditional
(i) Milking facilities building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, External Milk Silo, Meal Bin, Rain Water storage tank, Loose area, underground slurry tank & effluent tank, Cubicle area with feeding area (ii) Hardcore area (iii) Walled silage slabs and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561199
10 Jul 2025Conditional
the construction of single storey side and rear extensions to existing dwelling house, as built. Retention permission is also being sought for the construction of a domestic garage as built and for all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560682
24 Jul 2024Conditional
a rear extension and dormer window to an existing dwelling house, as-built
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460737
12 Feb 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter, site boundaries together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21148
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonaduff.
Recorded monuments
- LI012-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture with good views in all directions. Present remains consist of a raised roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 28m) defined by a scarp (int. H 0.3m; Wth. 3m) from SW through N to E with traces of an external fosse (base Wth. 2.4m) visible from NW through N to NNE. The fosse has been infilled at N. The interior is level. The outline of the monument is clearly discernible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020. See attached Google earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020 and 18/03/2015 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonaduff.
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 low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_850 (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 Cloonaduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonaduff · Cluain Eanaigh Dhubh
- Area
- 203,863 m² (20.39 ha, 50.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Clarina, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clarina electoral division: 1,993 people in 697 households; 86% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Cloonaduff 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.