# Cleraun, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cashel, barony of Rathcline, Co. Longford; in Irish An Cloichreán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,375,922 m² (137.59 ha, 340 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,681 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Cashel, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/cashel.md
- Barony: Rathcline
- Electoral division: Cashel West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32581
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130251
- Centre: latitude 53.552664, longitude -7.944397 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cleraun, from 163 m² to 218,299 m² (21.83 ha, 53.94 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 54759: 218,299 m² (21.83 ha, 53.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/54759.md
- Parcel 52589: 157,585 m² (15.76 ha, 38.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52589.md
- Parcel 69737: 143,620 m² (14.36 ha, 35.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69737.md
- Parcel 51846: 116,521 m² (11.65 ha, 28.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/51846.md
- Parcel 65847: 102,616 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/65847.md
- Parcel 77413: 58,578 m² (5.86 ha, 14.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77413.md
- Parcel 5572042: 54,680 m² (5.47 ha, 13.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5572042.md
- Parcel 53914: 36,659 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53914.md
- Parcel 52843: 34,729 m² (3.47 ha, 8.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52843.md
- Parcel 78924: 31,075 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78924.md
- Parcel 77885: 30,649 m² (3.06 ha, 7.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/77885.md
- Parcel 55938: 16,099 m² (1.61 ha, 3.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55938.md
- Parcel 63423: 14,722 m² (1.47 ha, 3.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/63423.md
- Parcel 5572016: 14,146 m² (1.41 ha, 3.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5572016.md
- Parcel 60520: 11,944 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60520.md
- Parcel 84097: 9,412 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84097.md
- Parcel 5572017: 9,109 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5572017.md
- Parcel 56688: 8,314 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56688.md
- Parcel 56144: 8,273 m² (0.83 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56144.md
- Parcel 2487579: 6,682 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487579.md
- Parcel 78454: 6,679 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/78454.md
- Parcel 55147: 6,079 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55147.md
- Parcel 56794: 5,710 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/56794.md
- Parcel 76151: 5,245 m² (0.52 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76151.md
- Parcel 5095541: 4,223 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5095541.md
- Parcel 64293: 4,175 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64293.md
- Parcel 2487586: 3,687 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487586.md
- Parcel 84087: 3,071 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84087.md
- Parcel 76956: 3,031 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76956.md
- Parcel 84229: 2,544 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/84229.md
- Parcel 72074: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72074.md
- Parcel 77633: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/77633.md
- Parcel 57113: 1,937 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/57113.md
- Parcel 2488071: 1,911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2488071.md
- Parcel 84093: 1,685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/84093.md
- Parcel 54900: 1,150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/54900.md
- Parcel 52517: 822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/52517.md
- Parcel 55442: 321 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/55442.md
- Parcel 84091: 300 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/84091.md
- Parcel 2518915: 163 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2518915.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Cleraun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

4 applications, newest first.

- 10 Apr 2026, Longford County Council 2660115: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the development will consist of the proposed retention permission of works to the dwelling to date as the original dwelling on the site was demolished, inclusive of the proposed permission for renovations, alterations and extension to the existing dwelling structure with a redesigned roof. Decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area to be replaced with a proprietary treatment system and percolation area, inclusive of all ancillary site works as per submitted drawings. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660115/0
- 28 Jun 2023, Longford County Council 2394: Conditional. Permission. construct extension to silage base, provide new dungstead, concrete apron and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2394/0
- 20 Feb 2020, Longford County Council 2043: Conditional. Permission. proposed construction of dry agricultural storage shed and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2043/0
- 20 Sept 2019, Longford County Council 19241: Refused. Permission. the construction of an agricultural shed along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/19241/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC, site code 000440, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA, site code 004064, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree, site code 000440

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cleraun.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Portanure Lodge, house, 1860–1890, Regional interest, registry number 13402505, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13402505. Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1875, having flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation with cast-iron railings to parapet, and lean-to extension to rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof to front block, pitched natural slate roof to rear block, with brick chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots and cut limestone coping. Cut limestone eaves course to main block (south); raised cut stone verges to gable ends of block to rear (north). Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone block-and-start quoins and rendered plinth, dressed ashlar limestone facing to front of porch (south) and cut limestone string courses to porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed tripartite French doors to centre bay at first floor level, giving access to roof level of porch. Square-headed door opening to the east face of porch having timber door with overlight. Cut stone step to door. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Ballymahon, overlooking Lough Ree to the south. Yard to rear of house having single-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Gateway to west side of yard having a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and timber double gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard. Square-headed integral pedestrian entrance built into wall to the north side of main gateway having roughly dressed limestone surround and timber door. Walled garden on square-plan to rear (north) having rubble limestone boundary walls. Main gateway to the house to the west comprising a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage to the west. Boat house (13402506) located on shore of Lough Ree to the south.
- Portanure Lodge, boathouse, 1860–1890, Regional interest, registry number 13402506, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LF&regno=13402506. Detached gable-fronted boat house associated with Portanure House (13402505), built c. 1875, having three-bay side elevations (east and west). Pitched natural slate roof with cut limestone eaves course, carried across gables to form string courses, and raised cut stone verges to gable ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed ashlar limestone walls. Segmental-arched boat opening to south gable end having cut limestone voussoirs to arch and timber double-doors. Paired segmental-headed window opening over to south gable, having chamfered cut limestone surround, thin hoodmouldings and timber top-hung windows. Slit windows/loophole openings to side elevations and to north gable. Square-headed door opening to east elevation having cut limestone keystone, timber battened door and hooped wrought-iron flat bar gate. Square-headed door opening to north gable end having decorative cut limestone keystone, label moulding and timber door. Located on the shore of Lough Ree to the southwest of Portanure Lodge. Channel to the south, living access to lake, having dressed ashlar limestone retaining walls. Steps to retaining walls. Pier/jetty to the southwest having moulded cut stone mooring post.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cleraun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Cleraun.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/cleraun.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/cleraun.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/cleraun.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

- Cleraun, Newtowncashel: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/longford/cleraun-newtowncashel.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Lismagawley: https://everytownland.com/longford/lismagawley.md
- Pollagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/pollagh.md
- Portanure: https://everytownland.com/longford/portanure.md
- Portanure Bog: https://everytownland.com/longford/portanure-bog.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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