Cleenrah

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cleenrah, from 21 m² to 161,301 m² (16.13 ha, 39.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Cleenrah 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  retention of (A) external cladding on garage building (B) permission to construct an extension to the rear of the existing garage building to including minor internal and external alteration to same (C) construct an entrance porch to the front of the existing building (D) new entrance location and associated walls and piers (E) signage and (F) proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2660275

• 18 Nov 2025Refused

  (a) external cladding on garage building (b) permission to construct an extension to the rear of the existing garage building including minor internal and external alteration to same (c) construct an entrance porch to the front of the existing building (d) new entrance location and associated walls and piers (e) signage and (f) all ancillary site works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2560268

• 13 Dec 2024Refused

  to install a tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area on existing house site and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460301

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house with single storey elements, detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21288

• 15 Nov 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey dwelling house and detached domestic garage, new entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18265

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 Cleenrah.

Recorded monuments

• LF006-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep NE-facing slope of a drumlin. A raised circular area (diam. c. 38m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.4-7.3m; H 0.6-1.55m). At its external base is a wide low berm (Wth 5-6m), which presumably marks the outline of an infilled fosse that was noted in 1990 (SMR file), along with the possible original entrance at E. The latter feature is no longer identifiable. The rath is overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 28 November 2011

• LF006-002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a steep SE-facing slope overlooking Lebeen Lough. Not marked on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1913 ed. as a hachured feature extending in an arc from NNE-S-SSW. A report in 1990 (SMR file) recorded a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse extending from NE-E-SSE. These have since been levelled and all that survives is a steep scarp (H 0.8-1.4m). The rest of the monument is occupied by a modern dwelling-house and garden. Test excavations undertaken at the SE half of the enclosure in 2004 yielded no archaeological features or artifacts (Delaney 2007, 251). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF006-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam c. 32m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 9-10m; H 1.4-1.7m), with a wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 9.8m; D 0.7-1.7m) from S-W-N. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at E. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF006-004 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  On a low, rocky ridge about 200m N of Leebeen Lough. A chamber (L c. 2m) faces W. Portal-stones, 0.45m apart, mark the entrance. Single stones, each set outside and leaning against the adjacent portal-stone, form the sides. A backstone set between the ends of the sidestones closes the chamber. Some small stones block a gap between the end of the backstone and the N sidestone. A roofstone (L 2.7m; Wth 2.5m; max. T 1.25m) rests on the five orthostats (all c. H 1.5m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 88, no. 2; O'Donovan 2002, 14) See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). Compiled by: Eamon Cody Date of upload: 3 October 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1760–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over unnamed river/stream flowing into Lough Gowna, built c. 1790. Roughly dressed limestone spandrel walls, segmental-headed arch with cut limestone voussoirs. Squared rubble limestone abutments and barrel. Rubble stone parapet walls with rendered coping. Rubble stone wing walls continue to the north and south of parapet walls. Concrete weir to north of bridge feeds millrace of former corn mill (Blakely’s Mill) to the northeast. Located to the north of Aghnacliff.

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 Cleenrah, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Cleenrah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cleenrah · Claonráth

Area

1,441,320 m² (144.13 ha, 356.16 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Columbkille, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 223 households in the Columbkille electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dunbeggan, Mollyglass, Polladooey, Rathmore, Smear

Placenames

Cleenrah 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.