Cloncanon
Townland in the civil parish of Monasteroris, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cluain Canann
- Area
- 395.8 ha
- 978 acres
- Land parcels
- 78
- registered freehold, median 12,470 m² (1.25 ha, 3.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncanon, from 119 m² to 896,353 m² (89.64 ha, 221.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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 Cloncanon 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
2 Jun 2026N/a
1. Renovation and upgrade works to existing cottage including (i) New natural slate roof covering (ii) new doors and windows 2. Construction of proposed single storey and storey and a half type extensions to rear of existing dwelling 3. Decommission existing septic tank and replace with a Proprietary Wastewater Treatment Unit with a Tertiary Filter Proposed 4. Construction of new recessed entrance 5. All associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660291
24 Jun 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF DESIGN OF DWELLING HOUSE TO REDUCED SIZE; ALL OTHER ITEMS AS PER PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION FILE REFERENCE NUMBER 19211. DOMESTIC USE SHED, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, UPGRADING EXISTING FARM GATE ENTRANCE TO RESIDENTIAL USE, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS REMAIN UNCHANGED
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20240
15 Jun 2020N/a
CHANGE OF DESIGN OF DWELLING HOUSE TO REDUCE SIZE; ALL OTHER ITEMS AS PER PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION FILE REFERENCE NUMBER 19211. DOMESTIC USE SHED, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, UPGRADING EXISTING FARM GATE ENTRANCE TO RESIDENTIAL USE, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS REMAIN UNCHANGED
Permission · Offaly County Council, 20220
9 Dec 2019Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO THE SITE BOUNDARY AND ALTERATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF THE SERVICES BUILDING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING APPLICATION REFERENCE 17/458
Permission · Offaly County Council, 19582
8 May 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DORMER TYPE DWELLING, DOMESTIC USE SHED, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, UPGRADING EXISTING FARM GATE ENTRANCE TO RESIDENTIAL USE, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19211
17 Nov 2017Conditional
A PROPOSED 2.4 HECTARE CAMPSITE WITH ANCILLARY BUILDINGS CONSISTING OF A NEW 65.2 SQUARE METRE, SINGLE STOREY RECEPTION BUILDING, A NEW 16.5 SQUARE METRE, SINGLE STOREY TOILET AND SHOWER BLOCK, A NEW SINGLE STOREY OUTDOOR KITCHEN, AND THE EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING 57.3 SQUARE METRE STABLE BUILDING TO PROVIDE A 74.1 SQUARE METRE, SINGLE STOREY SERVICES BUILDING. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO CONSIST OF A NEW RECESSED ENTRANCE, ACCESS LANEWAY, A NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH A CONSTRUCTED WETLAND SECONDARY TREATMENT AREA, A CONSTRUCTED WETLAND TERTIARY TREATMENT AREA AND A PERCOLATION AREA, ANCILLARY CAR PARKING SPACES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 17458
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104
Recorded monuments
- OF012-008 Standing stone
Description
Limestone standing stone (max. H c. 1.2m, W at base 0.5m N-S, c. 1m E-W) in low lying area. Slopes upwards from E to W. Situated on wet marshy land with good views in all directions. Triangular shaped stone (H 1.2m; 1.14m x 0.5m) with tapering top from E to W with inscription on its face which reads D.H 1876. 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
- Milestone/milepost, 1790–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Triangular-profile limestone milepost, c.1793. Located on south bank of the Grand Canal. Number '28' carved onto two sides of the post. Benchmark carved on top of post.
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 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2308 (ZIP).
- 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 Cloncanon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Cloncanon · Cluain Canann
- Area
- 3,957,805 m² (395.78 ha, 977.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monasteroris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Electoral division
- Edenderry Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Edenderry Rural electoral division: 890 people in 288 households; 94% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Cloncanon 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.