Clorhane

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clorhane, from 929 m² to 171,747 m² (17.17 ha, 42.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Clorhane 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 Clorhane 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clorhane Wood 000894

Recorded monuments

• OF005-046 Field system
  Description

  Field system identified in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area (McDonald 1987, 21). Appears to be post-1700 AD in date. 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

• OF013-001 Field system
  Description

  Possible field system identified by T. McDonald (1987, 21), cultivation ridges of unknown 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: 23 May 2011

• OF013-002 Hut site
  Description

  Possible hut site identified by T. McDonald (1987, 23), Not visible at ground level. 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

• OF013-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Possible levelled ringfort site of identified by T. McDonald (1987, 9), Not visible at ground level. 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

• OF013-004 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Possible childrens burial ground dentified by T. McDonald (1987, 26), Not visible at ground level. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1521 (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 Clorhane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clorhane · An Cloichreán

Area

2,560,120 m² (256.01 ha, 632.62 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmacnoise, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Clonmacnoise, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonmacnoise electoral division: 345 people in 124 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloniff, Creevagh, Curraghmore, Leitra, Tullaghbeg

Placenames

Clorhane 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.