Cloncat
Cloncat is a townland in the civil parish of Girley, barony of Kells Upper, Co. Meath. Its name in Irish is Cluain Chat.
- Area
- 182.4 ha
- 451 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 7,484 m² (0.75 ha, 1.85 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncat, from 374 m² to 172,897 m² (17.29 ha, 42.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 95 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Sept 2025Conditional
the development consists of alterations, renovations and extensions (c. 244 sqm) to an existing derelict cottage (c. 66 sqm), to comprise of an entrance hall, living room, study, 2 no. bathrooms, 3 no. bedrooms, kitchen/living/dining area, toilet and utility; all associated site development works; demolition of an existing block built shed (c. 54 sqm) to rear of property
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2560930
21 Sept 2021Refused
to construct a storey and a half type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary wall/fence, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 211847
19 May 2017Conditional
a Two Storey Dwelling, Domestic Garage, Sewage Treatment System, Percolation Area, New Entrance and all site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, KA170561
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Girley (Drewstown) Bog SAC 002203
- Natural Heritage Area: Girley Bog NHA 001580
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloncat.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloncat.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cloncat, 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 Cloncat.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloncat with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Cloncat · Cluain Chat
- Area
- 1,823,762 m² (182.38 ha, 450.66 acres)
- Civil parish
- Girley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kells Upper
- Electoral division
- Girley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 458 people lived in 155 households in the Girley electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Chamberlainstown, Drewstown Great, Drewstown Little, Ethelstown, Girley, Johnsbrook, Johnstown, Robinstown, Scurlockstown
- Placenames
- Cloncat 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.