Clonad
Townland in the civil parish of Geashill, barony of Geashill, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cluain Fhada
- Area
- 217.3 ha
- 537 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 2,757 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonad, from 24 m² to 442,753 m² (44.28 ha, 109.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Clonad 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
22 Jun 2026Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660329
12 Jan 2026Refused
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660007
2 May 2025N/a
construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system & polishing filter, alter existing entrance to road and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560153
20 Feb 2023Conditional
SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2357
9 Feb 2023N/a
EXTENSION & ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING COMPRISING OF 40M2 KITCHEN/LIVING AREA AND AN ACCESSIBLE TOILET/WET ROOM
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2347
23 Mar 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW BUNGALOW DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A NEW EFFLUENT WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AND THE ERECTION OF A SEPARATE GARAGE
Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 18136
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Screggan Bog NHA 000921
- Natural Heritage Area: Hawkswood Bog NHA 002355
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonad Wood 000574
Recorded monuments
- OF025-006 Enclosure
Description
No surface remains of any enclosure indicated from GSI aerial photographs (GSI N 181/80) taken in 1973. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonad.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonad.
- 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 Clonad with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Clonad · Cluain Fhada
- Area
- 2,173,347 m² (217.33 ha, 537.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Geashill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Geashill
- Electoral division
- Killeigh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killeigh electoral division: 1,321 people in 441 households; 89% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonagh East, Clonagh West, Gorteen, Hawkswood, Killurin, Ross
- Placenames
- Clonad 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.