Cloonbrin

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbrin, from 136 m² to 234,419 m² (23.44 ha, 57.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• N1.3Airport Development Objective (Airport)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Aug 2024Conditional

  change of use from agricultural buildings to tourist accommodation. The development will include three tourist accommodation units, consisting of Unit 1 contains 2 bedrooms, W/C, storage area and an open plan, living, kitchen dining. Unit 2 contains 2 bedrooms, W/C, storage area and an open plan, living, kitchen dining. Unit 3 contains 3 bedrooms, W/C, storage area and an open plan, living, kitchen dining. Permission is also sought for an extension to the southwest elevation of unit no. 1 to contain a living area(17.7sqm) and for bin storage and parking. Permission is also sought for a Secondary Treatment System and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460176

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  proposed construction of an extension to existing Hanger Building and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1919

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonbrin.

Architectural heritage

• Quinn's Bridge, bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal bridge carrying road over Royal Canal, built c. 1815. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed ashlar limestone masonry to barrel. Squared rubble limestone construction to spandrel walls, formerly rendered, with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Squared rubble stone construction to parapets (formerly rendered) with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed limestone coping over parapet walls. Towpath to south bank of canal with dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (north and south). Located to the northwest of Abbeyshrule, a short distance to the east of the Whitworth Aqueduct (13402337). Single-arch culvert to the east carrying canal over small stream having dressed limestone voussoirs to round-headed arch having projecting keystone, and rubble stone construction.

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 5 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1821 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cloonbrin · Cluain Briain

Area

1,792,033 m² (179.2 ha, 442.82 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyshrule, and its townlands

Barony

Shrule

Electoral division

Agharra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Agharra electoral division: 480 people in 173 households; 85% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyshrule, Agharra, Ballymaglavy (Co. Westmeath), Castlewilder, Drumanure, Kilphierish (Co. Westmeath), Ratharney

Placenames

Cloonbrin 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.