Clooncarha
Clooncarha is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Cluain Cárthaigh.
- Area
- 82.8 ha
- 205 acres
- Land parcels
- 93
- registered freehold, median 4,979 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncarha, from 63 m² to 43,446 m² (4.34 ha, 10.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clooncarha 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Oct 2025Conditional
Retention of existing agricultural shed and all ancillary site works including roadside wall, widened access with gates and hardstanding area.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560743
18 Dec 2024Conditional
1. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new extension. 2. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460779
17 Dec 2024N/a
1. To refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations and construct new extension. 2. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works at Clooncarha, Ballaghaderreen, Co. Mayo, F45 FY81.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460774
17 Jun 2024N/a
Section 5 Declaration: construct a 40 sqm extension to rear of existing house
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24218
22 Dec 2023N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Construcct 40 sqm extension to rear of house
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23690
23 May 2022Conditional
RETAIN AND COMPLETE EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22389
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 Clooncarha.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clooncarha.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncarha.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Clooncarha, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooncarha.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Clooncarha, Kilmovee5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Clooncarha · Cluain Cárthaigh
- Area
- 827,946 m² (82.79 ha, 204.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmovee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilmovee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 660 people lived in 265 households in the Kilmovee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Crunaun (Co. Roscommon), Ishlaun (Co. Roscommon), Kiltybranks (Co. Roscommon), Kiltymaine (Co. Roscommon), Leveelick
- Placenames
- Clooncarha 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.