Cluggin
Cluggin is a townland in the civil parish of Tuoghcluggin, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cloigín.
Parcel 1597710
- Area
- 2,422 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 179 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cluggin
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- LI024-082001 Church
Description
Westropp (1904-5, 439) recorded the following details on Tuoghcluggin; ‘Tohtclogyn, in Tipperary Deanery, 1302; Twogh Cloigin Church, down, 1615; Tuath an Chluigin, ( country of the little bell ' (O'Donovan). Site - It was levelled before 1840. Tobernacruhauneeve [LI024-083----], ' the well of the Holy Cross,' was near the graveyard. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that although this 'is called a Church, it is really a graveyard, without any remains of a church in it' (OSNB, 1690-1). Within graveyard (LI024-082002-). No visible surface trace. Area of briars may obscure ruins. Long, rectangular pillar stone noted within, may be a gravemarker. Other low, uninscribed stones visible in small cleared area. Named 'Tuoghcluggin Church (site of)' on current edition OS 6-inch map. Holy well (LI024-083----) c. 150m to E. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 January 2019
- LI024-082002 Graveyard
Description
In pasture to W of public road. Site of Tuoghcluggin Church (LI024-082001-) stood in SE quadrant of graveyard which consists of a sub-rectangular area (dims. 28m N-S; 51m E-W) enclosed by stonewall (H 1.2-1.5m). A small sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. 28m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 3.15m; H 0.95m) within W-half of graveyard may be remains of an earlier enclosure. Two inscribed headstones within, earliest dates to 1779 and numerous uninscribed gravemarkers. Tobernacrohaneeve holy well (LI024-083----) c. 150m to E. Site of Castle Cluggin (LI024-081---) lies 135m to W.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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 this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 46.2 ha
- 114 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 2,005 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cluggin, from 692 m² to 417,306 m² (41.73 ha, 103.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Cluggin 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
19 Dec 2024Refused
the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461280
26 Jan 2023Refused
the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, recessed site entrance, wastewater treatment system with all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2346
20 Apr 2022Conditional
detached garage with car-port and car parking/ patio area at side of house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 22440
3 Mar 2022N/a
detached garage with car-port and car parking/ patio area at side of house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 22250
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 Cluggin.
Recorded monuments
- LI024-083 Ritual site - holy well
Description
In level pasture. Circular, drystone well (diam. 1m) covered by metal sheet on S-side and enclosed by wire fence. Water level is shallow (D 0.2m). Church and graveyard (LI024-082001- and LI024-082002-) c. 150m to W. Described by Ó Danachair (1955, 206) as 'a small clear well in an open field … now used for domestic purposes … but known to have been a holy well … dedicated to the Holy Cross'. See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00152 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31157 and F025.21.00150 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16984. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 30 September 2020
- LI024-084 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In level pasture with a stream immediately to SW, which forms the townland boundary with Newtown North. Annotated ‘Rathnagallee’ and depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) standing immediately N of a stream which marks the meeting point of two townland boundaries. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible. Spoil has been dumped in this area, possibly from building of sheds to ESE. Levelled monument not visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 July 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cluggin.
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 Cluggin, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cluggin.
- 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 Cluggin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cluggin · Cloigín
- Area
- 461,617 m² (46.16 ha, 114.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tuoghcluggin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Oola, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvalode, Brackloon, Castlecluggin, Garravin, Gortaclareen, Kilmacogue, Newtown North
- Placenames
- Cluggin 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.