Cloonroosk
Cloonroosk is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeedy, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cluain Rúsc.
- Area
- 116.8 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,463 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonroosk, from 79 m² to 288,080 m² (28.81 ha, 71.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Cloonroosk 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
14 Aug 2025Conditional
1. Construct an all-weather playing pitch complete with enclosure fence/ball wall and 6no. 15m high floodlighting columns, 2. Construct a new car parking area adjacent to all weather pitch, 3. Construct a new community walkway along with pedestrian lighting within the boundary of the playing pitches and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560807
6 Jun 2025N/a
the replacement of flat roof with pitch over side extension, removal of one front window and insertion of side gable first floor window and side gable ground floor window
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25175
1 Mar 2023Conditional
the (a) Demolition of existing Isolation & waiting yard, (b) Construction of a new milking parlour to include waiting yard and underground slatted storage tank. Conversion of existing milking parlour to handling facilities and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360116
14 Feb 2023Conditional
the construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360065
13 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a storage shed and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22416
21 May 2020Conditional
a milk silo and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20409
7 May 2019Conditional
a community park and playground and associated parking
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19454
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 Cloonroosk.
Recorded monuments
- LI045-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still evident as roughly circular area (26m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by fosse (D 0.15m: Wth 3.6m). Edge of enclosed area is slightly higher than centre of interior and this may be remains of levelled bank. Interior surface is uneven and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI045-099 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Oval area (20m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.1m; Wth 2m) with an external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 3.2m). Interior slopes down gently towards centre and is under pasture. Field boundary skirts enclosure 8m to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Feenagh Carnegie Library, library/archive, 1915–1920 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey Carnegie library, built in 1917. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, timber clad eaves and cast-iron rain water goods. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth, having tooled limestone date plaque to front (north) elevation. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening within chamfered ashlar limestone surround having glazed timber door. Recent render ramp with galvanised steel handrail. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing walls with render coping, square profile piers and single-leaf wrought-iron gate.
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 Cloonroosk, about 1 in 5 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonroosk.
- 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 Cloonroosk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonroosk · Cluain Rúsc
- Area
- 1,168,169 m² (116.82 ha, 288.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Feenagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 340 people lived in 130 households in the Feenagh electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahadagh, Ahaveheen, Feenagh, Gortalassa, Gortmore, Gortnagluggin, Lisheensheela
- Placenames
- Cloonroosk 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.