Clonahenoge

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonahenoge, from 233 m² to 111,387 m² (11.14 ha, 27.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonahenoge 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.

• 25 Apr 2025Conditional

  essential maintenance works to the Shannon Navigation in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit comprising of the following: (i) Removal of 710m3 silt build up, downstream of Victoria Lock. (ii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance item referred to in (i) above. An Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application. The proposed maintenance works will require access through the front and rear curtilage of Victoria Lock House (RPS No. 38-04) and use of the field to the rear of Victoria Lock House beyond its immediate curtilage & access only through the east and south curtilage of Victoria Lock (RPS 38-05). No works or alterations to the physical structure of either the Lock House, its associated outhouses or to the Lock, are required as part of proposed maintenance works.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560143

• 2 Apr 2025N/a

  essential maintenance works to the Shannon Navigation in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit comprising of the following: (i) Removal of 710m3 silt build up, downstream of Victoria Lock. (ii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance item referred to in (i) above. An Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560103

• 31 Jan 2025N/a

  The development at this site on the Shannon Navigation, downstream of Victoria Lock, in the townland of Clonaheenogue, Co. Offaly will consist of essential maintenance works to the Shannon Navigation in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit comprising of the following: (i) Removal of 710m3 silt build up, downstream of Victoria Lock. (ii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance item referred to in (i) above.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560026

• 12 Dec 2024N/a

  essential maintenance works to the Shannon Navigation in accordance with Waterways Ireland’s statutory remit comprising of the following: (i) Removal of 710m3 silt build up, downstream of Victoria Lock. (ii) All works ancillary and incidental to the maintenance item referred to in (i) above. An Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted with the planning application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460504

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 Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: River Little Brosna Callows SPA 004086
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Natural Heritage Area: River Little Brosna Callows NHA 000564
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216

Recorded monuments

• OF029-007 Martello tower
  Description

  Post 1700 artillery fortification built in the 19th century for the defence of the River Shannon (Kerrigan 1980, 171-4). 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

• Hamilton's Lock, lock, 1750–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Lateral canal, Clonaheenogue Canal, built c.1755, to bypass the extensive rapids of the River Shannon. It comprises two sets of gates and a chamber - Hamiton Lock. It was abandoned in the 1840s and a new canal and a larger lock, Victoria Lock, were built to allow the passage of larger steamers. These remain in use today.

• Meelick Martello Tower, martello tower, 1810–1815 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding cam-shaped three-gun ashlar masonry Martello tower, constructed c.1811. Hammerdressed stone walls with base plinth and tapered walls. Battered walls to tower, approximately 60 feet wide at ground level, and somewhat less at parapet level. Entrance at first level. Two large windows, one on each side of the tower, are situated at first floor level at the start of two staircases that lead up the roof level. The roof supports three artillery guns. The ground level of the tower contained stores and a powder magazine, the first floor level with its timber floor providing the living accommodation. Two staircases, symmetrically arranged in plan, are contained within the wall thickness, and lead from each side of the first floor level to the rear of the gun platform above. The gun platform is 'trefoil' in plan, providing for three guns. The structure is supported on a central stone pier, cylindrical in shape, passing down through the tower to ground level.

• Victoria Lock, lock keeper's house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey stone lock keeper's house, built in 1843. Hipped natural slate roof with pair of stone chimneystacks. Single-bay single-storey projecting pedimented central bay. Square-headed windows openings with timber sash windows. Lean-to porch extension to rear and lean-to outbuilding to rear. Cast-iron mooring bollards to front of house facing onto canal.

• Victoria Lock, lock, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Victoria Lock, built in 1843, to replace Hamilton's Lock and Clonaheenogue Canal. It was built by the Shannon Commission engineer, Thomas Rhodes. Cast-iron mooring bollards with 1844 date stamp. The old canal and lock, dating from the 1750s, is still present.

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Clonahenoge · Cluain Fheannóg

Area

2,935,426 m² (293.54 ha, 725.36 acres)

Civil parish

Lusmagh, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Lusmagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lusmagh electoral division: 548 people in 193 households; 90% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghan Demesne, Gortnacrannagh, Incherky, Lavagh, Redwood (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Clonahenoge 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.