Cloonkeen

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeen, from 1,145 m² to 715,997 m² (71.6 ha, 176.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Cloonkeen 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.

• 22 Dec 2023Refused

  the proposed demolition of the existing cottage dwelling and to be reinstated as its original structure. The construction of a two-storey extension to the side (northeast) elevation and rear (northwest) elevation of the existing cottage dwelling as per accompanying drawings. Proposed new vehicular entrance to the western boundary of the site. The installation of a proprietary treatment system and percolation area as per submitted drawings and specifications to EPA and Local Authority recommendations, inclusive of all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2360241

• 21 Apr 2022N/a

  1) development consisting of the construction of a holiday park with 99 No. static mobile homes, 2) an area for touring pitches and casual camping spaces, with a static mobile welfare unit, 3) reception hut adjacent to the existing entrance, 4) playground and seperate grass play area, 5) extend the existing waste treatment system, 6) use existing entrance onto public road, 7) new well to supply potable water and 8) all ancillary site services. Newcastle House and its environs is a protected structure (Protected Structure No. 47-53, Newcastle Demense, Newcastle Country House, Demense)

  Permission, 99 homes · Longford County Council, 2292

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 Cloonkeen.

Recorded monuments

• LF027-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SW slope of a low rise in pasture. In the summer of 1975 (SMR file) an almost circular area (int. diam. 31m) was indicated by a change in vegetation: a band (Wth 4-5m) of parched pasture from NW-E-SW. The band may have marked the line of the levelled bank of a rath. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 February 2012

• LF027-005 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight rise in pasture. A rectangular enclosure marked on the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch map is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 January 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1754 (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 Cloonkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cloonkeen · Cluain Caoin

Area

1,229,733 m² (122.97 ha, 303.87 acres)

Civil parish

Shrule, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Ballymahon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymahon electoral division: 2,970 people in 1,076 households; 52% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymulvey, Cloonard, Clooncallow, Newcastle, Pallas More, Toome

Placenames

Cloonkeen 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.