Cloonback

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonback, from 319 m² to 109,726 m² (10.97 ha, 27.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Cloonback 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 Nov 2023Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360192

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  demolition of an existing dwelling house and construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, new/augmented entrance, boundary walls, piers and fencing, proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20314

• 2 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20255

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type 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, 19291

• 30 Nov 2018Conditional

  construction of a two story type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18279

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 Cloonback.

Recorded monuments

• LF002-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a high, prominent hill affording panoramic views in all directions. A raised circular area (diam. 34.8m) enclosed by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 6.1m; H 0.7m) with a wide, deep, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 1.1m). The fosse has been infilled from N-NE-ENE, where a modern roadway abuts it, and at SE, where a house has been built. At the outer lip of the fosse from W-NW-NNW are the remains of a low field bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Gates/railings/walls, 1800–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of vernacular gate piers on circular-plan, erected c. 1850. Roughcast rendered over rubble stone construction and having smooth rendered caps over. Pair of hooped wrought-iron flat bar gates with decorative wrought-iron latch and spiral wrought-iron finials. Painted rubble stone walls to the north and south of piers. Road-fronted at entrance of house/farmhouse (not in survey). Located in the rural landscape to the east of Ballinamuck.

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 Cloonback, about 1 in 20 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 low, low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonback · Cluain Baic

Area

1,288,954 m² (128.9 ha, 318.51 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinamuck East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

622 people lived in 209 households in the Ballinamuck East electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Annaghdaniel, Corrinagh, Cuingareen, Fostragh, Rathmore

Placenames

Cloonback 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.