Clooneeny

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneeny, from 1,350 m² to 809,853 m² (80.99 ha, 200.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Clooneeny 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.

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  change of dwelling house type previously granted planning permission Ref. No's: PL07/565 and PL12/240 along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17141

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 Clooneeny.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 30.9m) enclosed by a much-denuded, wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth 5.9m; H 0.4-1m) with a wide, deep, waterlogged external fosse (Wth 4.8m; D 0.9m). The original entrance is not recognisable. It is densely overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-069 Structure - peatland
  Description

  An area (1.87m x 0.07m) of dispersed brushwood with some small randomly placed roundwoods. The wood is mostly hazel and birch and toolmarks are present. The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-102 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-103 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-104 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-105 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF013-159 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Clooneeny Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as brushwood and roundwood elements supported by a bed of twig material. It was visible in a drain face, 0.39m below the field surface (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0257) the site was interpreted as the remains of a short togher or possible platform. A fragment of alder was used for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. 1208-946 BC (UBA 26558). A single cutting was opened, measuring 5x3.5m. The exposed site was a maximum of 1.84m in length and 1.35m in width. It was composed of closely placed, N-S orientated roundwood elements that were laid a maximum of two layers deep. Three roundwoods were identified as alder and cherry, and one brushwood as oak. A few worked ends were noted. Some of the elements were visible in section in the opposing drain face, but no further sightings were located. The site was underlain and overlain by poorly humified peat. Compiled by: Tim Coughlan/Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer Date of upload: 25/02/2020

• LF013-160 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Clooneeny Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as severely machine-damaged roundwood and brushwood elements, visible on the field surface for 15m (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0256) it was revealed to be a poorly preserved hurdle togher. A fragment of hazel was used for AMS dating and returned a result of cal. 164 BC-AD 51 (UBA 26559). The hurdle togher was orientated N-S. Very little peat remained over the site, and it was underlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat. The togher consisted of nine fragmentary E-W orientated sails, placed 0.12-0.2m apart, which had a maximum surviving length of 0.75m. A fairly dense arrangement of N-S orientated rods was found between the sails. The densest part of the site was contained within the N extent of the cutting, and measured 2.9m in length and 0.75-1.58m in width. The sails from the hurdle togher were mainly identified as hazel, with one ash and one alder sample noted. Compiled by: Tim Coughlan/Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer Date of upload: 25/02/2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooneeny.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1696 (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 Clooneeny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Clooneeny · Cluain Éanna

Area

1,674,093 m² (167.41 ha, 413.68 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Longford Rural electoral division: 5,685 people in 1,964 households; 51% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghareagh Bog, Cartronageeragh, Cloontirm, Cloonturk, Gowlan, Kilmore Upper, Knockanboy, Mullagh Bog

Placenames

Clooneeny 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.