Clonshannon

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonshannon, from 1,936 m² to 2,332,110 m² (233.21 ha, 576.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Clonshannon 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Clonshannon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Clonshannon.

Recorded monuments

• OF027-006 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located on flat pasture land with bog to the N and St. Broghan's church (OF027-008----) nearby. Over the well there is a modern stone built cover with a statue of St. Broghan standing inside this house like structure. There are several hawthorn bushes beside the well all of which is enclosed by an irregular shape concrete wall. Associated with St. Broghan whose feast day is the 4th of December (Comerford 1883, 124-6). In 1934 the National Schools Survey of Holy Wells recorded that this pattern ‘is one of the most ancient in Ireland having been in existence over nine hundred years. It was suppressed about eighty years ago. A very beautiful and very ancient litany of the B.V.M. composed by Saint Brochan is recited at the well. The pattern was resuscitated by the Revd. J. Breen C.C. Clonbulloge in 1926’ (NFC 468, 141). In 1934 it was recorded in a local newspaper that ‘over 1,500 people attended the annual Pattern of St. Brochan, Clonsast, Offaly on Sunday’ (ibid.). According to this report the pattern ‘attracts large numbers annually from all the surrounding counties. The Rosary having been recited at the holy well, and the ancient Litany of the Blessed Virgin, composed by St. Brochan, an aeridheacht, followed by football and camogie matches and a boxing exhibition by the Portarlington Boxing Club was held. The Wolf Tone pipe and drum band, Carbury, was present’ (ibid.). The well was described in 1934 as ‘there is a protecting concrete wall around the well and the wall is surmounted by barbed wire. It was erected about 1925 by James Dunne, Clonsast, a hood was erected over the well in 1927 by Revd. James Breen C. C. Clonbulloge. Last Sunday in June pattern is held there; people visit the well at other times also’ (NFC 468, 147). People used the water from the well for bodily ailments and cures such as stammering and leave stones, pennies, clothes, pins and pebbles at the well. Offerings were placed on a specially constructed ledge within the well near the top. Bits of beads, bits of brooches, bits of ribbons and pins are placed by some on the white thorn. They are affixed last Sunday in June (ibid., 150). 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: 18 December 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Clonshannon · Cluain Seanáin

Area

3,308,773 m² (330.88 ha, 817.62 acres)

Civil parish

Clonsast, and its townlands

Barony

Coolestown

Electoral division

Bracknagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bracknagh electoral division: 1,141 people in 381 households; 93% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunnagappagh, Clonavoe, Clonsast Upper, Coolagary, Nahana, Raheenakeeran, Walshisland

Placenames

Clonshannon 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.