Cloonagh

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonagh, from 95 m² to 114,769 m² (11.48 ha, 28.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Cloonagh 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.

• 23 Jan 2026N/a

  The development will consist of the construction of a new dwelling house on former cottage ruins, a septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site development works at Cloona, Westport, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660064

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  Planning Permission for change of use from existing residential building to short term letting, to be used as overflow accommodation for the existing health retreat centre, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360181

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  The installation of approximately 15Km of 250mm OD water Trunk Main, which will extend from a position approximately 1Km from Westport at the junction of Pound Road and the R355 in the townland of Carrownalurgan to Kilsallagh Lower at the road junction between the R355 and the L1826 road to Drummin and the installation of approximately 29.3Km of a mains distribution network to supply water to 473 No Consumers along the route of the Trunk Main and in the area to the Townlands to the West of Croagh Patrick. All associated temporary site development works to gain access including clearance of vegetation, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts/ piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing, walls, and hedging; and any other temporary associated and ancillary development works required for the purposes of the proposed watermain, including the installation of stone tracks and temporary watercourse crossings. The watermain pipeline is located within the townlands of Cloghan, Clooneen, Knockfin, Ardoley, Churchfield, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Streamstown, Belclare, Killadangan, Deerpark West, Murrisknaboll, Carrowkeeran, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Murrisk Demesne, Meermihil, Glaspatrick, Thornhill, Carrowmacloughlin, Leckanvy, Killsallagh Lower, Killsallagh Upper, Kinknock, Kilgeever, Cuilleen, Mullagh, Cartoor, Glenbaun, Glencally, Furgill, Cregganroe and Boheh in County Mayo.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360016

• 26 Oct 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER P17/714 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18841

• 6 Sept 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17714

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clew Bay Complex 001482
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knappagh Woods 001520

Recorded monuments

• MA087-041 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Lisnafarn Cottage, farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey direct entry farmhouse, extant 1838, originally four-bay single-storey thatched[?]. Renovated to accommodate continued occasional use. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with pressed or rolled iron ridge centred on rendered chimney stack having stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, concrete or rendered coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on rendered eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in own grounds perpendicular to road.

• Store/warehouse, 1841–1897 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay four-storey warehouse with half-attic, extant 1897. Disused, 1916[?]. Now in ruins. Pitched roof now missing with no rainwater goods surviving on ivy-covered cut-limestone eaves. Ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls originally rendered[?] with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone shallow sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds supporting hammered limestone lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Cloonagh Corn Mill (extant 1838; disused 1916).

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_191 (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 Cloonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloonagh · Cluanach

Area

686,337 m² (68.63 ha, 169.6 acres)

Civil parish

Aghagower, and its townlands

Barony

Murrisk

Electoral division

Knappagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knappagh electoral division: 817 people in 299 households; 84% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Belclare, Bofara, Brackloon, Fahburren, Killadangan, Killeencoff, Knockaraha East, Knockaraha West, Laghloon

Placenames

Cloonagh 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.