Cloontirm

85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloontirm, from 37 m² to 189,561 m² (18.96 ha, 46.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Cloontirm 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.

• 8 Sept 2025Unconditional

  of PL 21/67 - construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, attached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Longford County Council, 2537

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, attached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with percolation area & ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2167

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  changes previously granted planning under reference no. 15/143 and 16/40 to now include retention and changes to domestic garage, changes to site layout plan and drainage and all ancillary works

  Retention · Longford County Council, 1756

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 Cloontirm.

Recorded monuments

• LF013-030 Enclosure
  Description

  On a SSE-facing slope in pasture. A large subcircular area (81.9m E–W; 77.2m N–S) enclosed by a wide low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.6m; H 0.1-0.8m), which has been almost completely denuded to the internal ground level due to cattle-trampling, and a wide, deep, partially waterlogged intervening fosse (Wth 3.6-4.2m; D 0.3-1.2m). From S–W–NNE a much-degraded, low outer bank, has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary. The fosse has been infilled and the outer bank has beenlevelled from SE–SSE–S. The original entrance is not recognisable. To the N of the centre of the interior are two quarry holes. 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 Cloontirm.

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, 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_1695 (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 Cloontirm with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cloontirm · Cluain Tirim

Area

1,421,246 m² (142.12 ha, 351.2 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, Ballyminion, Cartronageeragh, Clooneeny, Lissanurlan, Mullagh Bog

Placenames

Cloontirm 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.