Cloonfin

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfin, from 236 m² to 266,374 m² (26.64 ha, 65.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Cloonfin 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.

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  the retention of foundations and permission for the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, proprietary wastewater treatment system, tertiary treatment unit/polishing filter, associated site development works and all ancillary works. The Significant Further Information relates to: a revised site suitability assessment and site characterisation report prepared in accordance with the EPA Code of Practice –domestic waste water treatment systems (Population Equivalent =10), 2021; a completed local need form together with supporting documentation; and a revised development description clarifying that the proposal relates to retention permission and permission for new development as a standalone development

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560302

• 18 Sept 2025Refused

  of PL 20/208 to construct a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2543

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560187

• 24 Oct 2023Conditional

  to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360183

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  to construct a two storey type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20208

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 Cloonfin.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a prominent rise in pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 31.5m) enclosed by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1-5.3m; H 0.6-1.1m) with a wide, deep intervening fosse (Wth 6.9-8.6m; D 1.45-1.6m), outer bank (Wth 5.9-8.8m; H 1.8-1.95m) and outer fosse (Wth 3.5-4.6m; D 0.65-1m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Cloonfin House, outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the rear (north) of Cloonfin/Clonfin House (now demolished), built c. 1800. Comprising a three-bay single-storey outbuilding/former coach house to the southeast having two integral segmental-headed carriage arches; two-storey outbuilding to the east, and a single-bay gable-fronted outbuilding to the west. Pitched natural slate and corrugated-metal roofs. Cut stone eaves course to outbuildings to the southeast and east. Roughly coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings, now mostly blocked to two-storey outbuilding having tooled limestone sills. Square-headed door openings with modern doors. Two-segmental-headed carriage arches to outbuilding to the east, one now infilled, having dressed limestone voussoirs and modern sheet metal doors. Wrought-iron flat bar gates to site. Former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) to the northwest of yard, built c. 1800, having rubble limestone exterior walls. Located to the northwest of site of house and to the southwest of Granard. Modern farm buildings to site.

• Cloonfin House, gate lodge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1820, having bowed single-bay side elevations (northwest and southeast) and a later projecting gable-fronted porch addition to the front (southwest). Now disused. Formerly serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House, now demolished. Hipped natural slate roof with overhanging eaves having timber supports/brackets, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled cut limestone sills and multi-paned timber casement windows. Square-headed window opening to porch with tooled limestone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash window. Square-headed door opening to porch having double leaf timber battened door. Set back from road adjacent to entrance gates (13401018) formerly serving Cloonfin/Clonfin House at start of a long approach avenue to the southeast of the site of the house. Located to the southwest of Granard.

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 Cloonfin, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonfin · Cluain Fionn

Area

2,557,517 m² (255.75 ha, 631.98 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Bunlahy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

225 people lived in 79 households in the Bunlahy electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagreagh, Clonbroney, Graffoge, Killeen, Prucklishtown, Willsbrook

Placenames

Cloonfin 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.