Cloncon

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncon, from 206 m² to 695,409 m² (69.54 ha, 171.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Cloncon 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.

• 12 May 2026N/a

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED TWO-STOREY DWELLING, DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING, A PROPOSED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS, INCLUDING A PROPOSED SITE ENTRANCE

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2644

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  (1) construction of a new external underground slatted slurry storage tank for livestock use including feed barriers and feeding area to rear of existing farm building, completed with associated siteworks, and (2) Retention Permission for farm building for housing of livestock as constructed including associated siteworks. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a protected structure, Cloncon, number 33-03, NIAH Reference 14917009.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360013

• 5 Jul 2023N/a

  The development consists of (1) Permission to construct a new external underground slatted slurry storage tank for livestock use including feed barriers and feeding area to rear of existing farm building, completed with associated siteworks, and (2) Retention Permission for farm building for housing of livestock as constructed including associated siteworks. The proposed development is within the curtilage of a protected structure, Cloncon, number 33-03, NIAH Reference 14917009.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360008

• 23 Dec 2021Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21811

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PORCH EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH, SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE NORTH, AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING WINDOW AND DOOR OPES TO THE NORTH, ADDITIONAL WINDOW OPES TO THE EAST & WEST (ALL AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL). A FIRST-FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE NORTH TO INCREASE ACCOMMODATION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ATTIC CONVERSION INCLUDING A BALCONY, ROOFLIGHTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS AND SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21412

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloncon.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloncon.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Pitched (north end) and hipped (south end) oaten straw roof with decorative knotting to ridge and exposed scolloping to ridge and eaves. Rendered brick chimneystacks. Limewashed lime-plastered clay walls. Small-pane timber sash windows, one to front having iron bars. Timber battened door and sheet half-door. Traditional interior retained, particularly in kitchen significant features of which are original canopied hearth and exposed roughly-hewn timberwork of the roof. Slightly-recessed single-bay outbuilding with stone walls and pitched corrugated iron roof added to north end of house. Set at right angles to road and facing into 'parallel' farmyard. Six-bay lofted single-storey outbuilding opposite house with pitched corrugated-iron roof stone walls.

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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1997 (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.

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

Name

Cloncon · Cluain Con

Area

2,243,382 m² (224.34 ha, 554.35 acres)

Civil parish

Geashill, and its townlands

Barony

Geashill

Electoral division

Cappancur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappancur electoral division: 1,701 people in 573 households; 85% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonminch, Derrybeg, Derryclure, Graigue, Killeenmore, Killeigh, Meelaghans

Placenames

Cloncon 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.