Clondelara
Clondelara is a townland in the civil parish of Clonmacnoise, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Cluain Dá Lára.
- Area
- 293.8 ha
- 726 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 10,832 m² (1.08 ha, 2.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clondelara, from 101 m² to 746,324 m² (74.63 ha, 184.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clondelara 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
25 Sept 2026N/a
the change of house type under previously granted permission (planning reference number - 2560060) and including all ancillary associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660506
3 Sept 2026N/a
the change of house type under previously granted permission (planning reference number - 2560060) and including all ancillary associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660469
5 Mar 2025Conditional
1. SITE ACCESS 2. CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE 3. CONSTRUCTION OF GARAGE 4. EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM 5. ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560060
18 Jul 2018Conditional
EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE TO PROVIDE A GRANNY FLAT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18310
28 Jun 2018N/a
EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING HOUSE TO PROVIDE A GRANNY FLAT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 18280
18 Dec 2017Conditional
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE, TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND PROPOSED BORED WELL AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 17499
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clondelara.
Recorded monuments
- OF013-011 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situate on top of high ground in undulating countryside. Partially levelled mound of irregular shape (H 0.7m; diam. c. 20m). According to local farmer this was the site of a ringfort which local people believed was the residence of the 'wee people', and 'that children wouldn't dream of approaching the site after sunset' (SMR File 1988, correspondence from K. P. Egan). Of doubtful antiquity. 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/revision: 28 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clondelara.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Clondelara, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clondelara.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clondelara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Clondelara · Cluain Dá Lára
- Area
- 2,937,709 m² (293.77 ha, 725.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonmacnoise, and its townlands
- Barony
- Garrycastle
- Electoral division
- Shannonbridge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 272 people lived in 122 households in the Shannonbridge electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clonever, Cloniffeen, Curraghmore, Garrymore, Gurrawirra, Lecarrow, Leitra
- Placenames
- Clondelara 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.