Clonascra

161 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonascra, from 77 m² to 195,497 m² (19.55 ha, 48.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Clonascra 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.

• 20 Jan 2025Conditional

  the development of a recreational shared cycle and walkway located on Bord Na Móna lands within the townlands of Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Clonascra, Ballyduff, Clonaderg, Doon Demesne, Lackagh Beg, Lackagh More, Cormore and Corbeg, Corbane, Ballydaly, Kilcolgan Beg, Turraun, Leabeg, Leamore, Oughter, Derrymore, Bunakeeran, Lumcloon and Broughal in County Offaly. The development proposes the following; a) The delivery of a shared cycle and walkway on Bord na Móna lands. This will include the repurposing of 16,919 meters of existing former rail bed and 8,960 meters along existing bog headlands / former high fields. b) The proposed shared cycle and walkway will connect into the existing Grand Canal Greenway, The Offaly Way, and the Lough Boora Discovery Park. c) The construction of car and / or bicycle parking facilities at a number of gateway locations along the proposed route and the provision of EV Charging spaces at the Gateway locations. This will include; i. 5 no. Type 2 Gateways (including 2 no. upgrades to existing parking and 3 no. proposed parking facilities) ii. 6 no. Type 3 Gateways iii. 1 no. Type 4 Gateways iv. 2 no. Major Rest Points v. 2 no. Minor Rest Points d) Upgrade works to Brosna Bridge (Ref 15-100). e) The construction of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge spanning the Grand Canal within the Turraun townland. f) Upgrade works to 10 no. local access road crossings, and 8 no. agricultural crossings. g) The erection of wayfinding and interpretative signage at Gateway locations along the route. h) The implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) nature-based drainage proposals at the Gateway locations to cater for surface water drainage at car park locations. i) Fencing and screening will be erected where required for health and safety and biodiversity reasons which will include 14,909 meters of ecological screening. j) All other ancillary and associated site work. This Planning Application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560014

• 9 Dec 2024N/a

  he development of a recreational shared cycle and walkway. The development proposes the following; The delivery of a shared cycle and walkway on Bord na Móna lands. This will include the repurposing of 16,919 meters of existing former rail bed and 8,960 meters along existing bog headlands / former high fields. The proposed shared cycle and walkway will connect into the existing Grand Canal Greenway, The Offaly Way, and the Lough Boora Discovery Park. The construction of car and / or bicycle parking facilities at a number of gateway locations along the proposed route and the provision of EV Charging spaces at the Gateway locations. This will include; 5 no. Type 2 Gateways (including 2 no. upgrades to existing parking and 3 no. proposed parking facilities) 6 no. Type 3 Gateways, 1 no. Type 4 Gateways, 2 no. Major Rest Points, 2 no. Minor Rest Points. Upgrade works to Brosna Bridge (Ref 15-100). The construction of a new pedestrian and cycle bridge spanning the Grand Canal within the Turraun townland. Upgrade works to 10 no. local access road crossings, and 8 no. agricultural crossings. The erection of wayfinding and interpretative signage at Gateway locations along the route. The implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) nature-based drainage proposals at the Gateway locations to cater for surface water drainage at car park locations. Fencing and screening will be erected where required for health and safety and biodiversity reasons which will include 14,909 meters of ecological screening. All other ancillary and associated site work. This Planning Application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460492

• 30 Oct 2024N/a

  the existing apartments in the existing basement of the dwelling house. Permission is also sought to retain and complete for the existing outbuilding to the south boundary of the site and all associated site works

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 2460427

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE BASEMENT STORE, GROUND FLOOR EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS AND ATTIC CONVERSION, CONVERSION OF ORIGINAL EXTERNAL UTILITY AND STORE TO GRANNY FLAT FOR THEIR OWN FAMILY USE, SEPARATE SINGLE STOREY GARAGE AND SINGLE STOREY WORKSHOP BUILDINGS

  Retention, 3 homes · Offaly County Council, 22649

• 30 Nov 2022N/a

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE BASEMENT STORE, GROUND FLOOR EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS AND ATTIC CONVERSION, CONVERSION OF ORIGINAL EXTERNAL UTILITY AND STORE TO GRANNY FLAT FOR THEIR OWN FAMILY USE, SEPARATE SINGLE STOREY GARAGE AND SINGLE STOREY WORKSHOP BUILDINGS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 22616

• 25 Aug 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION (07-193) FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, 2 NO. GARAGES, TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21525

• 26 Jul 2021N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION (07-193) FOR A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Offaly County Council, 21461

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 Area of Conservation: Mongan Bog SAC 000580
• Special Area of Conservation: Pilgrim's Road Esker SAC 001776
• Special Protection Area: Mongan Bog SPA 004017
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mongan Bog 000580
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pilgrim's Road Esker 001776

Recorded monuments

• OF006-006 Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatland
  Description

  Report of a stone road in Bord na Móna boglands leading through Clonascra townland in a N-S direction towards Bloomhill. No further information available. (McDonald, T. 1987, 12) Located on low-lying land between bog and well drained land. Narrow trackway (Wth 4m) of earth and stone composition running in a N/S direction between bog and well drained land. May originally have joined up with the pilgrims road. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF006-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 19). 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

• OF006-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified as a cropmark from GSI aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 565/4). 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

• OF006-010 Mound
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 8). 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

• OF006-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified as a cropmark from GSI aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 565/4). 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

• OF006-012 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 10). 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

• OF006-013001 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 24). Trial-trenching was carried out on 21 August 2007 by Anne Carey under licence No. 07E0839 at the site of a proposed single-house development. Four trial-trenches were excavated on the site and the testing did not result in the discovery of heretofore unknown or unrecorded archaeological material or artefacts (Bennett 2010, 399). 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. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 08 November 2011

• OF006-013002 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 24). 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

• OF006-014 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with no man-made features visible. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 8). Human burial (OF006-135) that was excavated by Anne Carey in 2002 under licence no. 02E0636 was located 36m to the S of this potential enclosure. 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

• OF006-015 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Potential monument identified as a cropmark from GSI aerial photographs taken in 1973 (GSI N 564/3). 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

• OF006-016 Mound
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with no man-made features visible. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 19). Described by McDonald as 'south east of Mongan's Bog is a mound encircled by stone wall on south side (long axis east-west). A roadway bisects site at east end, which has been partially quarried away' (McDonald 1987, 19). 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

• OF006-017 Enclosure
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with agricultural terrracing around base of hillock situated on top of an esker ridge. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 8). Described by McDonald as 'a ring-work enclosed by a low bank which contains a very wide platform locally called 'Cluain-Chonchobar' (McDonald 1987, 19). 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

• OF006-018 Hut site
  Description

  Grass covered wall-footings exists forming no distinct shape, may be only the remains of a field wall of post-1700 AD date. Impossible to classify the site as a hut site due to lack of shape of the remains. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 23). Described by McDonald as 'a group of hut foundations located on a scarp' (McDonald 1987, 23). 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

• OF006-019 Enclosure
  Description

  Site of a natural quarry with trackway leading from quarry to house with debris from track thrown up on one side to form a bank. Non-antiquity. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 10). 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

• OF006-021 Mound
  Description

  Monument appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with no archaeological features visible situated on top of an esker ridge. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 19). Described by McDonald as 'a mound encircled by a low bank on OS as a circle, no occupation evidence visible' (McDonald 1987, 19). 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

• OF006-022 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Impossible to examine area as it is covered in dense furze bushes on top of hill. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with situated on top of an esker ridge, no archaeological features visible. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 25). Described by McDonald as 'a group of cairns at the foot of 'The Pinnacles' and appear to be encircling the hill' (McDonald 1987, 25). 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

• OF006-023 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Impossible to examine area as it is covered in dense furze bushes on top of hill. Site appears to be that of a natural glacial hillock with situated on top of an esker ridge, no archaeological features visible. Potential monument identified by T. McDonald as part of an archaeological survey of the Clonmacnoise region in 1987 (McDonald 1987, 25). Described by McDonald as 'a group of cairns at the foot of 'The Pinnacles' and appear to be encircling the hill' (McDonald 1987, 25). 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

• OF006-135 Burial
  Description

  Human remains, discovered at the edge of a gravel ridge at Clonascra near Clonmacnoise in August 2001, were excavated by Anne Carey under licence no. 02E636 on 21 May 2002. A single prone human skeleton, 1.5m long, was orientated north-east/south-west. No finds were associated with the skeleton, which was in poor condition. Potential enclosure (OF006-014----) located 36m to the N of this burial. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF006-137 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  The earthworks of an old roadway leading into a farmhouse which no longer survives is visible in the ground as a semi-circular shaped earthwork that has the appearance of a possible circular enclosure or embanked enclosure of archaeological significance. However examination of the first edition OS 6-inch map shows these earthworks to be the remains of an old roadway leading into a farmyard. This roadway and farmyard is not depicted on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map. The trackway and farmyard were levelled between the two editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload / revision : 16 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Clonascra.

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 Clonascra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clonascra · Cluain Eascrach

Area

4,294,875 m² (429.49 ha, 1,061.29 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmacnoise, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Hinds, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hinds electoral division: 369 people in 129 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyduff, Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Clonfinlough, Clonmacnoise, Tullaghbeg

Placenames

Clonascra 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.