Cloonta

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonta, from 372 m² to 158,755 m² (15.88 ha, 39.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonta 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.

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17476

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

Recorded monuments

• MA031-007 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA031-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, located on a hillock. A flat expanse of boggy pasture, which lies to N, is shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map as a small lake, named ‘Colemans Lough’. This enclosure is shown on the 1837-8 OS map as a circular, ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 40m), and on the 1922 edition as a penannular, hachured area (diam. c. 35-40m) open to NE. At the location there is gently domed knoll or hillock (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S; H c. 2m to SW; 3m to NE), roughly oval in plan, with a flattish top and broadly sloping sides. The sides slope quite steeply, and are scarped (H 0.9m) at their base at S-W. It has the appearance of a natural hillock; it may have been modified in the past to form an enclosure, however, no clearly defined enclosing element is now evident. The flattish top (diam. c. 13.5m) is traversed by a discrete length of bank (L 9m NNW-SSE) incorporating a single large boulder, which according to local tradition, was used as mass rock (MA031-008001-). There is a possible souterrain (MA031-073----) c. 130m to SW, and a possible rath (MA031-007----) c. 220m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

• MA031-008001 Mass-rock
  Description

  On top of a hillock, within a possible enclosure (MA031-008----). A discrete length of bank (9m NNW-SSE; Wth 2.7m; H 0.5), composed of earth and small stones, extends across the flattish top (diam. c. 13.5m) of the hillock. The bank incorporates a single, irregular-shaped boulder, which according to local tradition, was used as an altar at which mass was said during the Penal Era. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

• MA031-071 Enclosure
  Description

  Located in flat pasture, merging at W with an expanse of rough, heather-covered peaty ground. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837-8 and the 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised, sub-circular area (31m E-W; c. 25m N-S) defined at SW by a remnant of bank (L c. 10m; Wth 3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.65m) and elsewhere by a low scarp (H 0.35-0.4m), outside which there is a broad, shallow fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.2m), which can be traced at NW−E. Outside the fosse at NE there is a slight, flat-topped rise (Wth c. 4m), distinguished by different vegetation growth, which may be the remnants of an external bank. The interior is level, but has a rough, uneven surface. There are causeway-like features across the fosse at E (Wth 2m) and at WSW (Wth 4m), but it is unclear if either represents an original entrance. The outline of the enclosure is indistinct on the S arc, and at SW it merges with heather-covered bog. A rough E−W farm track lies a few meters to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 July 2018

• MA031-073 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, adjacent to a NNE−SSW field bank, located close to the base of a SE-facing slope. According to local information, there is a souterrain here, which was closed up in the past. No visible remains at ground level. There is a possible enclosure (MA031-008----) 130m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonta.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cloonta, about 1 in 10 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonta.

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.

No address of the register names Cloonta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloonta · Na Cluainte

Area

1,993,579 m² (199.36 ha, 492.62 acres)

Civil parish

Kilgarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Kilgarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

857 people lived in 323 households in the Kilgarvan electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carha, Carrownaglogh, Carrownlabaun, Corimla South, Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Farranmorgan

Placenames

Cloonta 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.