Clonwhelan

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonwhelan, from 140 m² to 357,914 m² (35.79 ha, 88.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonwhelan 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.

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a new straw bedded shed, new roofed dungstead, new soiled water storage tank, ancillary concrete and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2382

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  of an existing single-storey detached garage type structure with velux rooflights as constructed and which is proposed to be used as habitable accommodation. Removal of existing septic tank and percolation area as located on submitted site layout plan, to be replaced with a proprietary treatment system and percolation area as per updated submitted drawings site characterisation report to EPA and local authority recommendations inclusive of all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans have been furnished to the planning authority

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2153

• 19 Jan 2017Conditional

  Retention of an existing dry bedded cattle shed (280m2) with also seeking full planning permission for the construction of two underground slatted tanks with an extension to the existing structure, meal bin silo, cattle handling facilities with ancillary facilities and associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1710

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 Clonwhelan.

Recorded monuments

• LF020-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A raised subcircular area (c. 50m N-S; c. 48m E-W) enclosed by a substantial, although partially denuded, bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.5-5m; H 0.3-0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.6-1m), which may have been recut. The bank and fosse have been incorporated into a field boundary from SW-N-ESE. A wide break (Wth 5m) in the bank at ESE may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF020-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. c. 32m) was enclosed by a bank of earth and stone and the original entrance was at SE. It is defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m). At the base of the scarp is a deep waterlogged fosse (Wth 3.6m), which has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. From W-N-NNE a modern NE-SW roadway cuts through the rath. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

• LF020-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone with a shallow external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath has since been levelled and only its outline, defined by a scarp (H 0.4-0.5m), is identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF020-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in low-lying pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this poorly defined circular area (diam. c. 24m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with an external fosse. The enclosing elements have since been largely levelled. From SW-N-NE it is defined by a low scarp (H 0.3m) and from SE-S-SW by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.8-1m), which has been recut for use as a drain. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF020-021 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In wet, low-lying pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded that this ring-barrow was defined by two low banks of earth and stone with an intervening fosse. It comprises a raised, roughly circular area (diam. at base 15.5m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.4m), which is enclosed by a shallow fosse (Wth 2.5-3m; D 0.2m). No trace of the outer bank is visible at ground level and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey four-bay house, built c. 1800, having single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the front elevation (southeast) and a single-storey outbuilding attached to the northeast gable end. Pitched artificial slate roof with central rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with pronounced base batter having smooth rendered finish. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch (southeast) with replacement timber panelled door. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding abutting northeast gable with pitched corrugated-metal and corrugated-asbestos roof, wetdashed rendered walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Set in own grounds and aligned at a right-angle to the road-alignment. House set at a lower level than road surface. Cement rendered boundary wall to road-frontage (west). House site accessed by flight of steps from road surface. Located to the east of Edgeworthstown, close to the border with County Westmeath.

• Clonwhelan House, house, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1775, having single-bay three-storey lean-to extension to rear (northwest). Pitched natural slate roof with roughly dressed and squared limestone chimneystacks (partially rendered) to gable ends (southwest and northeast) having cut stone coping over. Raised cut stone verge to southwest gable end. Some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to first floor and at basement level and nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor openings. Central round-headed door opening with cut limestone block-and-start doorcase, replacement timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Doorcase approached by a flight of cut limestone steps flanked with wrought-iron railings having wrought-iron cross finials over. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the southeast/east of Edgeworthstown, adjacent to the border with County Westmeath to the east and south. Roughly coursed limestone boundary walls with crenellated limestone coping over to the south and southeast; rubble limestone boundary walls to site. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings (13402005) to the rear (northwest). Main entrance gate to the south of house comprising a pair of roughly coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having roughly dressed limestone capstones and with hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates.

• Clonwhelan House, farmyard complex, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings associated with Clonwhelan House (13402004), built c. 1780 and c. 1860. Detached nine-bay two-storey outbuilding to the northwest, built c. 1860, having projecting central bay to main elevation (southeast), and with single-storey single-bay addition to northeast gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course, raised cut stone coping to gable ends (southwest and northwest) and a central red brick chimneystack. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level having dressed limestone surrounds, louvered window fittings or remains of timber windows, and with limestone sills Wrought-iron bars to the interior of a number of openings. Circular window openings at first floor level having dressed limestone surrounds and timber louvered fittings. Some square-headed window openings at first floor level having limestone sills and remains of timber fittings; openings now blocked. Square-headed doorways having dressed limestone surrounds and timber battened doors with louvered, glass or panel overlights. Square-headed carriage arch to projecting central bay having timber battened double doors. Single-bay single-storey annex attached to the northeast gable end having hipped natural slate roof, roughly dressed limestone walls, and segmental-headed carriage arch with red brick voussoirs and roughly dressed limestone surrounds. Single-bay outbuilding to the northeast, built c. 1780, of two-storey building having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to gable ends (southeast and northwest), rubble limestone walls with blocked carriage arch to southeast gable, end and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Three-bay single-storey hay barn, c. 1930, to the southwest having corrugated-metal barrel-vaulted roof supported on wrought-iron/steel supports. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to site. Located to the rear (northwest) of Clonwhelan House (13402004) and to the southeast/east of Edgeworthstown.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1860–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Vernacular field gate, c. 1890, comprising a pair of roughly dressed limestone gate posts supporting (seven bar) wrought-iron flat bar gate with central semi-circular support bar. Rubble limestone boundary walls to either side (north and south). Set slightly back from road. Located to the southeast/east of Edgeworthstown, and adjacent to the main entrance serving Clonwhelan House (13402004).

• Level crossing, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway level crossing, erected c. 1900, serving Dublin to Sligo Railway line. Still in active use. Comprises pair of timber gates/barriers with cast-iron and steel fittings. Cast-iron lanterns to timber gates. Concrete posts to gates. Altered single-storey level crossing guard’s house adjacent to the southeast. Located in the rural countryside to the southeast of Edgeworthstown, on the border with County Westmeath (to south).

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Clonwhelan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Clonwhelan · Cluain Faoláin

Area

1,579,155 m² (157.92 ha, 390.22 acres)

Civil parish

Mostrim, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ballymuigh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymuigh electoral division: 237 people in 101 households; 83% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cam, Kilsallagh, Loughanstown Lower or Slievelahan (Co. Westmeath), Monadarragh, Rath (Co. Westmeath), Windtown North (Co. Westmeath)

Placenames

Clonwhelan 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.