Cloncreen

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncreen, from 474 m² to 2,727,540 m² (272.75 ha, 673.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cloncreen 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  (RED III) a period of 10 years for a grid connection for the previously approved, but not yet constructed, solar energy development (Planning ref: 21/598). This will consist of installation of medium voltage (MV) electrical cabling between the solar arrays and the existing Philipstown 110kV substation, including a 8m section of cable within the R401 and a 56m section of overhead line and associated pole sets to facilitate crossing of the Figile River. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted as part of the application. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660152

• 27 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission for development at this site within the townlands of Ballykilleen, Ballinowlart North and Kilcumber, Co. Offaly. The development will consist of: 1. A grid connection for the previously approved, but not yet constructed, solar energy development (Planning ref: 21/598). This will consist of medium voltage (MV) electrical cabling between the solar arrays and the existing Philipstown 110kV substation, including a 8m section of cable within the R401 and a 56m section of overhead line and associated pole sets to facilitate crossing of the Figile River. 2. Amendments to the previously approved, but not yet constructed, solar energy development (Planning ref: 21/598) comprising revised site entrance arrangements in place of permitted access points 3 and 4 including associated internal access tracks, drainage and development boundary amendments.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560603

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS TO CONSTRUCT AND COMPLETE A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WITH A TOTAL SITE AREA OF CIRCA 117.47 HECTARES, TO INCLUDE PV PANELS MOUNTED ON METAL FRAMES, NEW ACCESS TRACKS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, PERIMETER FENCING WITH CCTV CAMERAS, 22 NO. MV POWER STATIONS, TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUNDS AND ALL ANCILLARY GRID INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS. THE SOLAR FARM WOULD BE OPERATIONAL FOR 40 YEARS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21598

• 10 May 2021Conditional

  INTENTION TO EXTEND THE LIFETIME OF CLONBULLOGUE ASH REPOSITORY TO THE END OF 2031. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF: (1.) THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE EXISTING ASH REPOSITORY FROM THE BEGINNING OF 2024 UNTIL THE END OF 2031, INCLUDING THE USE OF ALL ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE; (2.) THE DEPOSITION OF UP TO 13,000 TONNES PER ANNUM OF BIOMASS ASH FROM EDENDERRY POWER PLANT BETWEEN THE BEGINNING OF 2024 UNTIL THE END OF 2030; (3.) AN AMENDMENT TO THE PLANNING BOUNDARY TO INCORPORATE THE EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE; (4.) THE COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF CELL 6 (UP TO AN AREA OF 23,752 M2); (5.) THE COMPLETION OF THE CAPPING OF CELLS 5 OVER AN AREA OF 24,009 M2 AND CELL 6 OVER AN AREA OF 23,752 M2 ; AND (6.) THE SOURCING OF CAPPING MATERIAL FOR CELLS 5 AND CELL 6 FROM 2 NO. AREAS, AREA NO. 1 AND AREA NO. 2 WITHIN THE SITE BOUNDARY. AREA NO. 1 COVERS AN AREA OF UP TO APPROXIMATELY 35,000 M2 AND AREA NO. 2 COVERS AN AREA OF UP TO 15,000 M2. CLONBULLOGUE ASH REPOSITORY IS LICENCED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY UNDER AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS (IE) LICENCE [REF. W0049-02]. ACTIVITIES AT THE FACILITY AND ASSOCIATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND EMISSIONS WILL CONTINUE TO BE REGULATED AND CONTROLLED BY THE EPA. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR). THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21290

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  THE CONTINUED USE OF THE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED ASH REPOSITORY (AN BORD PLEANÁLA PL 19.216998 / OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL 05/1267) FOR DEPOSITION OF UP TO 20,000 TONNES OF PEAT ASH AND BIOMASS ASH DURING 2023, WITH AN AMENDMENT TO THE PLANNING BOUNDARY TO INCORPORATE THE SITE ENTRANCE. NO NEW INFRASTRUCTURE IS PROPOSED AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION. THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WHICH REQUIRES AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE. THE FACILITY OPERATES PURSUANT TO AN EXISTING INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE [EPA REF. NO. W0049-02]. THE APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20621

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 Cloncreen.

Recorded monuments

• OF019-004 Church
  Description

  Situated on flat land with extensive views in all directions. Poorly preserved remains of a nave (int. dims. 6m N-S; 9.4m E-W) and chancel (int. dims. 4m N-S ; 5m E-W; wall T 0.7m) church constructed with uncoursed large roughly shaped stones. No architectural features visible. Large breach (Wth 2m) in the N wall possibly belongs to destroyed door. Graveyard (OF019-004001-) contains 19th and 18th-century headstones with modern extension to W. Probable early medieval church. Early medieval church built with limestone rubble. Nave (ext. dims. 10.75m E-W x 7.5m N-S) and narrower chancel (5.5m N-S x 5.6m E-W) apparently contemporary since there is no evidence to the contrary. No architectural features to be seen. Gap in W end of S wall probably represents remains of doorway. A test excavation was carried out by John Kavanagh of Icon Archaeology Ltd under licence No. 08E0351 at a greenfield site (NGR 25906/22428) at Cloncreen, Clonbologue, Co. Offaly, prior to the construction of a single domestic dwelling opposite the site of a church and graveyard (OF019–004----). During the course of the excavation a single narrow gully and fire-spot were uncovered. These features were resolved under licence 08E0894 (Bennett 2011, 298). During the course of the excavation a single narrow gully and fire-spot were uncovered. Both features were cleaned, recorded and left in situ. No datable evidence was recovered (Bennett 2011, 298). A test excavation was carried out by John Kavanagh of Icon Archaeology Ltd under licence No. 08E0893 at a greenfield site at Cloncreen, Clonbologue, Co. Offaly, prior to the construction of a house opposite the site of a church and graveyard (OF019–004). During the course of the test excavation a single plough furrow was uncovered. An excavation is scheduled for 2009 (Bennett 2011, 298). 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: 10 November 2011

• OF019-004001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on flat land with extensive views in all directions with Cloncrane House 60m to E. Poorly preserved remains of a nave and chancel church (OF019-004----) in the centre of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 26m N-S x 43m E-W) containing memorials dating from the post-1700 period. The graveyard has been extended to the W in modern times. On the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map the medieval church ruins are depicted standing in the centre of a small rectangular shaped graveyard the S boundary of which is formed by a public road running E-W. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF019-094 Road - class 3 togher
  Description

  The site (L 7.2m min.; Wth 1.48m; D 0.08m) is orientated WNW-ESE and consists of regularly laid roundwoods (diam. 0.065-0.12m), brushwood (diam. 0.02-0.05m.), twigs and two split timbers. The elements are densely packed and laid longitudinally. The timbers, roundwoods and heavy brushwood make up the main body of the site, with the lighter brushwood and twigs deposited between and on either side of them. The wood is in poor to moderate condition. It lies in moderately humified Sphagnum peat. Radiocarbon dated to 3695-3380 cal. BC (Wk-11733). Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Cloncreen Bridge, bridge, 1780–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch masonry road bridge, built c.1790, carrying the Edenderry to Clonbulloge road over the River Figile. Random rubble construction. Semicircular profile arches with dressed stone voussoirs. Upstream V-cutwaters.

• Cloncrane House, farm house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1880, with single-storey flanking bays and extensions to rear. Set within own grounds. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast render to walls with smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Replacement timber casement windows with tooled stone sills. Segmental-headed doorway with moulded surround and replacement timber and glazed door with spoked fanlight. Stone outbuildings with tiled roofs to rear. Random rubble wall and gate piers to front site.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cloncreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cloncreen · Cluain Críon

Area

7,395,943 m² (739.59 ha, 1,827.58 acres)

Civil parish

Clonsast, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Clonbulloge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

825 people lived in 274 households in the Clonbulloge electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinowlart North, Ballydermot, Ballykilleen, Clonad, Clonbulloge, Clongarret, Clonkeen, Esker More, Rathvilla or Rathclonbrackan

Placenames

Cloncreen 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.