Clonymohan
Townland in the civil parish of Castletownely, barony of Clonlisk, Co. Offaly; in Irish Cluain Ó mBuacháin
- Area
- 194.4 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 50,055 m² (5.01 ha, 12.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonymohan, from 2,323 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) to 342,808 m² (34.28 ha, 84.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Clonymohan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Clonymohan 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.
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 Clonymohan.
Recorded monuments
- OF045-013 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a natural rise in undulating countryside. Natural hillock which has been scarped to form an oval shaped platform (diam 58m N-S; 63m E-W) which is defined by a scarp (H 2m) best preserved at W. No visible entrance feature identified. Quarry located in S sector of interior. 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
- OF045-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 34m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 3.5m max. at E.; int. H 0.5m) with no evidence of an external fosse or entrance feature. Modern dump material along bank from E to S. 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
- OF045-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on the N facing slope of E-W ridge in undulating countryside. Raised oval shaped area (diam 26.5m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 1m; int. H 0.5m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 3m) at E. 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
- OF045-028 Castle - unclassified
Description
In 1623 the commissioners appointed by the English Crown for the plantation of Kings County granted Henry Fisher the 'castle, town and lands of Clonnoghan alias Cloneboghan and Coolefoble' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, xxxi, 560). Today there are no surface remains visible of this levelled castle. 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
- OF045-029 Ringfort - rath
Description
Atop natural hillock in undulating countryside. Raised circular area (diam 26.5m E-W) enclosed by a low earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 1.3m; int. H 0.2m) with no external fosse or entrance feature visible. 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
- OF045-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a natural rise in undulating countryside. Roughly circular area (diam 35m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.5m) and external fosse (Wth 1.5m; ext. D 0.5m) with no apparent entrance feature visible. 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
- OF045-050 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) with entrance gap at SE visible on Google earth aerial imagery. Cropmark of levelled ringfort (OF045-030----) 25m to N. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 10/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 29 May 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonymohan.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonymohan.
- 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 Clonymohan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Clonymohan · Cluain Ó mBuacháin
- Area
- 1,944,497 m² (194.45 ha, 480.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castletownely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonlisk
- Electoral division
- Templeharry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templeharry electoral division: 215 people in 86 households; 85% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydonagh, Ballynakill, Ballyrihy, Foxburrow, Irishtown, Loughan
- Placenames
- Clonymohan 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.