Cloongee

154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloongee, from 61 m² to 126,542 m² (12.65 ha, 31.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Cloongee 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.

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) Demolition of shed and extension of existing dwelling, (2) Renovation and extension of the existing dwelling including alterations to all elevations, (3) proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works at Cloongee, Foxford, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560447

• 5 Sept 2023Conditional

  retention permission of sittingroom to front of dwelling house, ensuite bedroom to side of dwelling house and domestic garage

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 23503

• 19 Sept 2022Conditional

  CONSERVATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING, A PROTECTED STRUCTURE RPS NO. 142, TO INCLUDE A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR, CONVERSION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDINGS AND A NEW TERTIARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22811

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moy Valley 002078

Recorded monuments

• MA060-017 Castle - tower house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA060-038001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA060-038002 Standing stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA060-039 Enclosure
  Description

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• MA060-072001 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA060-072002 Fulacht fia
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Cloongee House, house, 1675–1685 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over raised basement house, built 1680, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height projecting breakfront; three- or five-bay full-height rear (east) elevation centred on single-bay full-height shallow breakfront. Sold, 1851. Leased 1901-11. Sold, 1916. Restored, 2005. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (breakfront), roll moulded clay ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes centred on rendered chimney stacks having corbelled stepped stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta tapered or yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Lime rendered or roughcast battered wall. Elliptical-headed central door opening (basement) with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed aluminium door having sidelights below overlight. Round central window opening (ground floor) with concealed dressings framing timber pivot fitting having cast-iron "spoke wheel" glazing bars. Square-headed central window opening (first floor) with cut-limestone sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Hipped square-headed central door opening to rear (east) elevation with concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six (south) or two-over-two (north) timber sash windows. Set in wooded grounds.

• Cloongee National School, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey national school, dated 1862; built 1862-3; opened 1863; extant 1895, on a cruciform plan with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting breakfront porches to side elevations. In use, 1925. Renovated, 2010, to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement hipped slate roof on a U-shaped plan with pitched (gabled) slate roofs to porches, ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered capping supporting pots, lichen-covered cut-limestone coping to gables, and plastic rainwater goods on eaves boards on boxed cut-limestone eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings centred on drag edged rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1862") with cut-limestone sills, and cut-limestone lintels framing replacement six-over-nine timber sash windows. 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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_424 (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 Cloongee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloongee · Cluain Gaoith

Area

2,795,845 m² (279.58 ha, 690.87 acres)

Civil parish

Templemore, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Toomore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toomore electoral division: 1,724 people in 709 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corlummin, Derrygaury, Kilmore, Leckee, Pollagh, Tawnagh Beg, Ummoon

Placenames

Cloongee 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.