Cloonan
Townland in the civil parish of Islandeady, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cluaineán
- Area
- 98.6 ha
- 244 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 4,702 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- M4
- Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonan, from 55 m² to 75,869 m² (7.59 ha, 18.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Jan 2025Conditional
construction of a new two storey clubhouse facility, including a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, together with modifications to existing site layout, car parking and services. Previously granted under planning P19/702
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2531
4 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21427
9 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT A NEW TWO STOREY CLUBHOUSE FACILITY, INCLUDING A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING SITE LAYOUT, CAR PARKING AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19702
17 Jul 2018Conditional
RETAIN HOUSE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARY WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. CONVERSION OF STUDIO TO DOMESTIC SHED
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18539
8 Jun 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 18421
16 Mar 2017Conditional
RETAIN GARAGE/STORAGE SHED ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARIES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17190
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonan.
Architectural heritage
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1925–1930 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay double-height Catholic church, built 1927, on a T-shaped plan comprising two-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on chancel to crossing (south). Renovated, 1988, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on moulded kneelers with Celtic Cross finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining some cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Round-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed window openings (transepts) with rendered block-and-start surrounds framing fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Round-headed window opening in tripartite arrangement (south) with rendered block-and-start surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Round-headed window opening to entrance (north) front with rendered block-and-start surround framing fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on square glazing bars. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber double doors; full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between timber pews, paired Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (----), carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (south) reordered, 1988, with cut-veined green Connemara marble panelled altar below stained glass "South Window" (----) in "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed mosaic tiled surround, and exposed collared "A-frame" timber roof construction on cut-limestone corbels with wind braced rafters to timber boarded ceiling on carved timber cornice. Set in landscaped grounds.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonan.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonan · Cluaineán
- Area
- 985,634 m² (98.56 ha, 243.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Islandeady, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Islandeady, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Islandeady electoral division: 1,079 people in 382 households; 92% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Claggarnagh West, Cornagashlaun, Dooleague, Drumneen, Rinnaseer
- Placenames
- Cloonan 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.