# Clooneen, Co. Longford: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Forgney, barony of Shrule, Co. Longford; in Irish An Cluainín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,529,029 m² (152.9 ha, 377.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,251 m² (0.63 ha, 1.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Forgney, https://everytownland.com/longford/parish/forgney.md - Barony: Shrule - Electoral division: Forgney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Forgney electoral division: 3,066 people in 189 households; 91% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Longford, https://everytownland.com/longford.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32652 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 130293 - Centre: latitude 53.553699, longitude -7.672742 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 1,224 m² to 421,749 m² (42.17 ha, 104.22 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 83180: 421,749 m² (42.17 ha, 104.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/83180.md - Parcel 80945: 256,902 m² (25.69 ha, 63.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/80945.md - Parcel 4793877: 212,851 m² (21.29 ha, 52.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4793877.md - Parcel 76157: 56,687 m² (5.67 ha, 14.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/76157.md - Parcel 60298: 35,414 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/60298.md - Parcel 64607: 13,276 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/64607.md - Parcel 55948: 11,217 m² (1.12 ha, 2.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/55948.md - Parcel 72084: 7,793 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/72084.md - Parcel 52995: 4,709 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52995.md - Parcel 71131: 3,348 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/71131.md - Parcel 52660: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/52660.md - Parcel 4802309: 2,958 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4802309.md - Parcel 69052: 2,825 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/69052.md - Parcel 53712: 2,215 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/53712.md - Parcel 2816962: 1,951 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2816962.md - Parcel 68868: 1,224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/68868.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Clooneen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 19 May 2025, Longford County Council 2520: Conditional. Permission. erect a four bay slatted shed, underground tank and a creep area and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LongfordCC/AppFileRefDetails/2520/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clooneen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LF027-025: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF027-025----. On a low rise in pasture. Depicted as a subcircular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicates that this raised oval area (c. 35m E-W; c. 34m N-S) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a scarp. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LF027-063: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLF027-063----. Situated on reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 34m) intersected at W by a post-1700 field boundary visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. Cultivation-ridges running NE-SW clearly visible running across monument on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 April 2021 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooneen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility 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 Clooneen. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooneen-130293.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooneen-130293.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooneen-130293.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford: https://everytownland.com/longford.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Cornamucklagh: https://everytownland.com/longford/cornamucklagh.md - Forgney: https://everytownland.com/longford/forgney.md - Kildordan: https://everytownland.com/longford/kildordan.md - Moyvore (Co. Westmeath): https://everytownland.com/westmeath/moyvore.md - Rath: https://everytownland.com/longford/rath.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/longford/clooneen-130293 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/longford/clooneen-130293