Clooncorraun
Townland in the civil parish of Ballinrobe, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cluain Corráin
- Area
- 100.6 ha
- 249 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 7,882 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncorraun, from 116 m² to 95,055 m² (9.51 ha, 23.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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
No zone of a development plan covers Clooncorraun 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
24 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE ALONG WTIH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19386
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 Clooncorraun.
Recorded monuments
- MA117-013 Enclosure
Description
On E-facing slope of ridge, in pasture, with marsh to E. Shown on OS map (1838) as circular enclosure. Levelled; no visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 341. Date of upload: 5 November 2013
- MA117-016 Enclosure
Description
On a height, in karst, surrounded by reclaimed pasture. Square-shaped area (25.5m N-S; 26.5m E-W), enclosed by remains of stone wall (Wth 2.5m; H 0.3m), levelled on W. Much outcrop in interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 270. Date of upload: 5 November 2013
- MA117-017 Enclosure
Description
In undulating, cleared pasture. Shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1929 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval walled enclosure (diam. c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) with the interior bisected slightly to NE of centre by a wall on a NW-SE axis. Also recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M 118 -9; Roll 198, pr. 29) (SMR file). Levelled; no visible trace. In An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (Lavelle 1994; p. 51, no. 342) an oval-shaped mound of clearance material (diam. 38m; H 2.3m) is recorded as occuping the site, possibly overlying the remains. In fact, the mound lies c. 45m to SE of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncorraun.
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 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 Clooncorraun.
- 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 Clooncorraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncorraun · Cluain Corráin
- Area
- 1,005,727 m² (100.57 ha, 248.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballinrobe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Ballinrobe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballinrobe electoral division: 4,118 people in 1,517 households; 62% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloonenagh, Cloonliffen, Creagh Demesne, Cuslough Demesne, Kilkeeran
- Placenames
- Clooncorraun 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.