Cloonsunna
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyhean, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cluain Sonnaigh Thoir
- Area
- 27.6 ha
- 68 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 3,344 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonsunna, from 273 m² to 74,766 m² (7.48 ha, 18.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Cloonsunna 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
3 Nov 2025Conditional
1.) Construction of extensions to the front and rear of the existing dwelling, 2.) Alteration to existing roof to provide a new habitable first floor level, 3.) Alterations to all elevations, together with connections to services and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560772
30 Oct 2020Conditional
RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTON TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20812
12 Aug 2019Conditional
THE IMPORTATION OF CLASS 5 INERT MATERIAL, RESULTING FROM GROUNDWORKS ASSOCIATED WITH LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECTS, FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT PURPOSES, TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19623
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 Cloonsunna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonsunna.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonsunna.
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_329 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonsunna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonsunna · Cluain Sonnaigh Thoir
- Area
- 275,604 m² (27.56 ha, 68.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyhean, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Cloonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloonkeen electoral division: 779 people in 294 households; 93% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloondeash, Cloonshinnagh, Creeragh, Derrygarve West, Derrynagooley
- Placenames
- Cloonsunna 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.