# Cloontally, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilbelfad, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Cluain Taithligh.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 693,309 m² (69.33 ha, 171.32 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 37,805 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilbelfad, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilbelfad.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Carrowmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 896 people lived in 323 households in the Carrowmore electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34305
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151047
- Centre: latitude 54.088974, longitude -9.248402 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloontally, from 644 m² to 209,504 m² (20.95 ha, 51.77 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 991922: 209,504 m² (20.95 ha, 51.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/991922.md
- Parcel 962040: 94,686 m² (9.47 ha, 23.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962040.md
- Parcel 873332: 73,619 m² (7.36 ha, 18.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873332.md
- Parcel 941060: 42,809 m² (4.28 ha, 10.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/941060.md
- Parcel 976774: 40,951 m² (4.1 ha, 10.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976774.md
- Parcel 938057: 37,805 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/938057.md
- Parcel 985492: 37,215 m² (3.72 ha, 9.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985492.md
- Parcel 980692: 34,796 m² (3.48 ha, 8.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980692.md
- Parcel 986707: 12,993 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986707.md
- Parcel 3778855: 1,255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3778855.md
- Parcel 3778849: 644 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3778849.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Cloontally in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches the townland of Cloontally in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC, site code 002298, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002298
- Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA, site code 004228, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004228
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin, site code 000519

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA039-003: Castle - motte, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA039-003----. In pasture, located on a small headland projecting into the NE end of Lough Conn. A 20m wide strip of flat rocky ground, wooded with ash and hazel trees, now separates the motte from the lake edge. The N side of the headland, c. 150m from the castle, is bordered by a stream-fed inlet of wet ground. Gently rising pastureland stretches to E-SE. This motte is named ‘Castle Kelly (in Ruins)’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a substantially raised, roughly circular flat-topped mound/platform (diam. 20-25m; H 4.8m) enclosed at its base at N–SE by a broad fosse (Wth top c. 8m, base c. 3m; ext. D 1.7m, at N). On the outer edge of the fosse at N there is a broad, low poorly defined rise; this may be the remnants of an external bank, but it cannot be traced elsewhere. The platform has broadly sloping sides (Wth slope 10m) on the E half, but on the W half the sides drop almost vertically, and have an eroded appearance. This suggest that in the past the lake waters reached the base of the motte on its W side. There is no surface evidence for a fosse on this side. The flat top (14-15m N–S; 11m E–W) of the platform retains remnants of an enclosing wall on it outer edge at N–E. The wall is evident as low sod-covered wall footings (Wth 0.6-1m; H 0.4m). Loose stone is visible protruding from the slopes of the platform on its E arc, probably tumble from the wall. Remnants of a building stand on the SE side of the platform top: Two walls, in an L-shaped arrangement, represent the W and N walls of a small rectangular or subrectangular building. The W wall (L 7.5m; Wth 1.1m; H 0.5m) retains two intact courses of external stone facing; the N wall (L 4.7m E–W) survives as a low, sod-covered stony rise, which extends E as far as the edge of the platform. A sod-covered conglomeration of stones lodged on the E slope of the platform may be a tumbled section of masonry wall from the building. At the base of the SE slope of the platform, beneath the building, a narrow, stony causeway-like feature (Wth 2.5m) extends SSE from the platform. It is bordered on the E side by the fosse, and on the W side is faced by stone walling, which is part of a field wall extending SE along the shoreline. Low surface undulations are visible immediately to E of the platform on an area of level gently elevated ground, but there is no clear evidence for a bailey. There is a rath (MA039-004----) c. 300m to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019
- MA039-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA039-004----. In pasture, on gently elevated ground on the NE side of Lough Conn. The low elevation extends 300m to W, forming a small headland projecting into the lake, with a motte (MA039-003----) sited on the lake edge. A canalised stream flows into the lake at a small inlet c. 100m NE of the rath. To E ground falls away gently to expanses of lowlying flat, damp pasture. This rath has been levelled, but it is possible to trace the outline of a circular area enclosed by two outer banks with two intervening fosses. The central, slightly raised circular area (29m N–S; 28m E–W) is defined by a low, broadly-slumped scarp (Wth slope 3m; H 0.35-0.5m). It is encircled by a shallow depression (Wth 3-4m), indicating an infilled fosse. On the outer edge of the fosse, there is a bank, levelled now to a very low, broad rise (Wth 3-4m). Outside this a second fosse (W c. 2.5m) with an external bank (Wth 3-4m) can be traced as undulation at S–NNW, barely discernible elsewhere. A break in the enclosing elements at ENE, may indicate the location of the entrance. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019
- MA039-031: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA039-031----. In pasture, 100m from the NE shoreline of Lough Conn. This enclosure is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular rath-like enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as a hachured, subcircular enclosure within a wooded, fenced off area. It has been levelled. There is no visible trace at ground level, but the outline of a subcircular cropmark (31m E–W; 26m N–S) is visible in aerial views. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2020

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cloontally, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_359, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_359.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloontally.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloontally.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloontally.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Cloontally with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Cappanaglogh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cappanaglogh.md
- Cloonacauna: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cloonacauna.md
- Knockfree: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockfree.md
- Wherrew: https://everytownland.com/mayo/wherrew.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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