Cloonpasteen
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cluain Páistín
- Area
- 170 ha
- 420 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 3,565 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonpasteen, from 75 m² to 224,794 m² (22.48 ha, 55.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Cloonpasteen 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
5 Dec 2024Conditional
a granny flat within existing dwelling. Construction of new extension to rear of existing dwelling with additional secondary accommodation. Elevational changes and new onsite wastewater system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24457
30 Jan 2024Conditional
the construction of a two storey with part single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, install a mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2460066
12 Dec 2023Conditional
the construction of a slatted shed, indoor cattle crush, roofed feed passages and concrete aprons
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23596
31 Aug 2018Conditional
construction of a detached domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18870
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 Cloonpasteen.
Recorded monuments
- LI045-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked oval enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled and incorporated into pasture field. Enclosure now evident as oval area (36m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.55m; Wth 6.8m), with an external fosse (D 0.1m; Wth 2m) SW->WSW. Field boundary runs along top of scarped edge NW->NE; boundary running S from SE edge of enclosure has been removed. Farm trackway skirts E side of site. Interior slopes slightly down to W, and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI045-004 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In level pasture, on S side of stream. Semi-circular waterlogged area (L c. 5m) used to water cattle. In mid-1950s 'rounds still made, but not often' (Ó Danachair 1955, 205). Visited on 1st Feb. and reputed to have cure blindness (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI045-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.6m) and external fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 3.4m). Internal bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m) reduced to scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 1.2m) NNW->SSW. External bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 2.6m) extant NNW->WNW. There is causeway (Wth 5m) across fosses and break (Wth 9.5m) in external bank at W. Interior level and under pasture. 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 Cloonpasteen.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonpasteen.
- 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 Cloonpasteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonpasteen · Cluain Páistín
- Area
- 1,699,610 m² (169.96 ha, 419.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Kilmeedy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeedy electoral division: 368 people in 133 households; 80% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygulleen, Bohard, Drominacreen, Feohanagh, Garbally, Garbally, Tulligmacthomas
- Placenames
- Cloonpasteen 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.