Cloghans

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghans, from 86 m² to 68,131 m² (6.81 ha, 16.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Cloghans 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.

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  retention of proprietary effluent treatment system and retain second entrance drive and to enlarge site size to take in proprietary effluent treatment system and second entrance drive previously granted under P92/173 together with all associated site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 24279

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20940

• 4 Feb 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND GARAGE TYPE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER P08/1379 & P08/13790

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 1960

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

• MA039-088 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Located in an area of gently undulating pastureland bordering Lough Conn, which is 450m to W. Named ‘Cloghans Castle’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps, this tower house, said to have been built by the Barrets, is square (ext. c. 7.5m NE-SW; c. 7.5m NE−SW) in plan, with walls (T c. 1.8m) built of mortared limestone blocks. It stands to three storeys in height. The walls have a slight external base batter. The entrance doorway is at the N end of the SE wall. It has a bluntly pointed segmental arch; the jambs are robbed out. There is a semi-circular alcove feature (Wth 0.75m; D 0.55m; H c. 1m), now partly broken out, within the N frame of the doorway. The doorway leads directly into a single, large ground floor chamber. There are large, recessed embrasures in the each wall, with traces of wicker centering in the shallow arches. The embrasures in the SW, NW and NE walls are centrally placed, but due to the entrance doorway, the embrasure in the NE wall is located towards the S end of its wall. There is a rectangular window in the centre of each of the embrasures in the SE and SW walls, but both are blocked up. The embrasure in the NE wall is broken through, and this break is now blocked externally by a stone-built farm shed, of relatively recent date, which was built against the external face of the tower house. In the NW angle of the ground floor chamber, there is a low, narrow doorway (W 0.6m; H 1.2m), with a pointed segmental arch, and traces of iron door-fittings in the NE jamb. It leads, via a short passage through the thickness of the castle wall, into a three-quarter circle turret (diam. 4m; H c. 3-4m), which projects from the NE corner of the keep. The turret has a corbelled, conical three-quarter stone-built roof, which is largely intact, but the walls (T c. 0.8m) are ruined and broken out N−SE. This appears to have served as a flanking, ground floor gun-turret; a small gun-loop (H 10cm; Wth 4.5cm) remains intact in the turret wall at SW. At first floor level, there are stone corbels which once supported a timber floor, but there is no evidence of a stairs from ground to first floor level. There are deep embrasures in the NE, SE and SW walls of the first floor chamber. The embrasure in the NE wall has an off-centre, narrow ope; on its exterior face it has a decorated ogee-head, and a chamfered, dressed-stone surround and sill; one side of the window is broken out. There is a centrally-placed, rectangular window in the SE embrasure. A mural chamber extends through the NW wall, lit by a window which is visible in the external wall face. The doorway into the mural chamber is no longer evident. This mural chamber most likely contains a stairs to the second floor. It must also contain a garderobe, probably at its W end, as the sloping outlet (Wth 0.87m; D 0.76m) of a well-built garderobe shute opens at exterior ground floor level at the S end of the NW wall of the castle. At second floor level, there was also a timber floor (wall sockets and corbels are visible), and above this is an intact, stone-built vaulted roof, with traces of wicker tracery. The second floor chamber has a large embrasure in the SW wall, with the main vault continuing as a ceiling of the embrasure. In the NE wall there is a broken opening, probably to a mural chamber/stairs to the first floor. The quoin stones have been robbed out of the exterior angles of the castle walls at lower levels. The external wall faces are densely cloaked in ivy. A farm track skirts the SE side of the castle. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 April 2020

• MA039-120 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  In pasture, at the tip of a headland jutting N into a small bay on the NE shoreline of Lough Conn. Not shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps; shown on the 25-inch plan as a subtriangular-shaped hachured area (c. 40m N−S; c. 30m E−W at broad S end), encompassing the roughly triangular-shaped tip of the headland, and listed in 1991 SMR and in 1997 RMP as a possible promontory fort on this basis. A very slight rise in ground level is evident at the location, but there is no visible above ground evidence of an enclosure. A straight field fence is shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map cutting across the headland on a NE−SW axis; this has been removed. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

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

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 Cloghans with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloghans · An Clochán

Area

948,401 m² (94.84 ha, 234.35 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbelfad, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Carrowmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowmore electoral division: 896 people in 323 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolcran, Derrygullinaun, Friarstown, Glebe, Newtown

Placenames

Cloghans 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.