Clonca
Clonca is a townland in the civil parish of Mostrim, barony of Ardagh, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cluain Catha.
- Area
- 120 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 4,014 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonca, from 1,037 m² to 298,310 m² (29.83 ha, 73.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Clonca 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
No planning application touches the townland of Clonca in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Clonca.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonca.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having recent flat-roofed porch to front (southeast) elevation and two recent single-bay single-storey extensions, one with flat roof and one with pitched tiled roof, to rear elevation (northwest). Single-storey outbuilding with corrugated-metal roof abutting northeast gable end of house. Pitched thatched roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends and three rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted sills. Some replaced timber casement windows to rear elevation (northwest) and to single-storey extensions to northwest. Square-headed door opening to southwest side of porch having glazed timber door. Flat-roofed entrance porch to southwest gable end of recent extension to northwest having round-headed opening with recessed square-headed doorway with glazed timber door. Set back from road, at right-angle to road alignment to the east of Edgeworthstown. Rendered boundary walls and modern gates to road frontage. Complex of single-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the front of the house (southeast) having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, painted rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.
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 Clonca, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonca.
- 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 Clonca with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Clonca · Cluain Catha
- Area
- 1,199,515 m² (119.95 ha, 296.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mostrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ardagh
- Electoral division
- Coolamber, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 397 people lived in 131 households in the Coolamber electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonshannagh or Coolamber Manor Demesne, Corclaragh, Cornacausk (Co. Westmeath), Gortanear (Co. Westmeath), Moatavally, Ringowny, Tinode (Co. Westmeath)
- Placenames
- Clonca 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.