Cloonahard

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonahard, from 135 m² to 244,865 m² (24.49 ha, 60.51 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 Cloonahard 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.

• 25 Mar 2025Unconditional

  of 20/3 proposed construction of a six bay slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2510

• 9 Jan 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of a six bay slatted shed with underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 203

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 Cloonahard.

Recorded monuments

• LF014-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SW-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 35.5m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.3m; H 1.25m max.). From NNW-N-NNE, where it is bordered by the Longford-Edgeworthstown road, and from SSW-W-NW, the bank has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF014-074001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 33.5m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; H 0.9m max.), an intervening fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 1.4m), outer bank (Wth 5.4m; H 1.25m) and outer fosse (Wth 4.1m; D 0.6m). From NW–N–NE the external face of the outer bank has been modified and the outer fosse has been infilled but its outline is still identifiable. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a third low bank; it also noted that the interior was bisected into roughly equal portions by a low bank and fosse, aligned NE–SW. These features are no longer visible at ground level. A break (Wth 4.1m) in the banks at SE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. A possible souterrain (LF014-074002-) is associated. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

• LF014-074002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within a rath (LF014-074001-). According to local tradition, there is a 'passage' (possible souterrain) running underneath the rath. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 September 2012

• LF014-095 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 19.1m) enclosed by an inner wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; H 0.2-0.7m), an inner fosse (Wth 3.3m; D 1.2m), a wide, low middle bank (Wth 5.9m; H 1.4m) and an outer fosse (Wth 2.9m; D 0.8m), with a low outer bank (Wth 3.7m; H 0.25m). The outer bank is identifiable only from NW–NNW–N and from E–ESE–SE. A break (Wth 3.1m) in the banks at ENE with an accompanying causeway marks the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

• LF014-102 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture at the base of a gentle ESE-facing slope. A raised D-shaped area (diam. 39.3m NW-SE; 37.1m NE-SW), with a straight SE side, enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.1m; max. H 0.35m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 3.4m; D 0.4m). A stream flows outside the bank along the SE side and between it and the bank is a ledge or berm (Wth 4.1m; max. H 0.1m). A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a low outer bank from S-W-E, it has since been levelled. The original entrance is not recognisable. Another ringfort (LF014-103----) lies c. 20m to the N. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

• LF014-103 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a gentle ESE-facing slope. Depicted as an irregular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded an almost completely levelled circular area (diam. c. 33m) enclosed by a low bank and a shallow external fosse at SE, S and W. The NE quadrant was cut by a NW-SE running field boundary and only a low rise with slight traces of the fosse survived to its NE. The original entrance was not recognisable. On re-inspection in 1988 the monument was not visible at ground level. Another ringfort (LF014-102----) lies c. 20m to the S. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• LF014-141 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 39m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 19/04/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 September 2019

Architectural heritage

• Level crossing, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway level crossing gates, 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. Concrete posts to gates. Altered single-storey level crossing guard’s house adjacent to the southwest having hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, painted coursed rubble masonry walls, and square-headed openings with replacement fittings. Located in the rural countryside to the southeast of Longford Town.

• Bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over small (unnamed) river/stream, built c. 1800. Roughly coursed rubble stone spandrel walls, abutments and pier. Dressed limestone voussoirs to arches. Rubble stone parapets and wing walls having roughly dressed limestone coping over. Located in the rural countryside to the north of Ardagh.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonahard · Cluanach Ard

Area

1,486,735 m² (148.67 ha, 367.38 acres)

Civil parish

Templemichael, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Corboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corboy electoral division: 420 people in 151 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghanahown, Cartronawar, Cloonahussey, Drumbaun, Freehalman, Lisfarrell, Lissardowlan, Oldtown

Placenames

Cloonahard 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.