Clonkeen (Barrington)

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonkeen (Barrington), from 787 m² to 852,928 m² (85.29 ha, 210.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Clonkeen (Barrington) 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.

• 4 Aug 2026Conditional

  extensions to the dwelling consisting of a bay window to the front of dwelling, extensions to the side and rear of dwelling, a domestic garage attached to the side of the dwelling and for a dog kennel

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 26182

• 10 Apr 2025Conditional

  alterations to Permitted governing planning permission reference number 24/60691 to retain alterations to site boundaries, retain as built subfloor and ground floor blockwork of house and garage as constructed. Permission is also being sought to alter the location of the permitted wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and complete the construction of house and garage together with all associated site works

  Retention, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2560316

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560275

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter; together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460691

• 30 Sept 2021Conditional

  existing extensions to side and rear of existing cottage, permission for proposed extension to rear of existing cottage with attached garage and store and car port, detached garage with plant room and fuel store to rear of cottage and all associated works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211358

• 16 Sept 2020N/a

  construction of a 2 storey detached dwelling house, construction of a detached garage, installation of effluent treatment system and installation of new entry gates

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20924

• 6 Feb 2020Conditional

  existing garage as constructed

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2081

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  demolition of old extension at rear of existing dwelling. Retention for extension and renovations and all ancillary site works. Planning Permission is also sought for demolition of old extension to side of existing dwelling and erection of new extension comprising of study and entrance porch

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19355

• 29 Jan 2018N/a

  demolition of old extension to side of existing dwelling and erection of new extension comprising of study and entrance porch. Retention permission for demolition of old extension at rear of existing dwelling and retention of extension and renovations and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1871

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI014-007001 Church
  Description

  National Monument No. 84 (Harbison 1970, 147). Situated on flat pasture immediately N of the Murroe road (R506) with post-1700 cottage immediately to W and modern bungalow to E. Clonkeen church stands in N quadrant of graveyard. The N and E wall of the graveyard are only 4m N and E of the church respectively. The E graveyard boundary forms the E townland boundary with Maddyboy. The field to the N of the graveyard and S of the road formed part of the glebe belonging to Clonkeen Church as depicted on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Multi-period church, the E two thirds of the present church was built some time before the 11th century. In the mid-12th century the church was extended to the W with the construction of a new Romanesque W doorway. In the 15th century a new twin light ogee-headed window was inserted into the centre of the E gable and a single light ogee headed window inserted into the S wall located off centre to E. In 1881 repair works were carried out on the church by the Board of Public Works. A monastery was founded at Clonkeen (Cluain Caoin) by Modhíomóg or Díomán in the 6th/7th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 377; Ó Riain 2011, 266). His feast-day was remembered on the 26th of April and the 10th of December (Ó Riain 2011, 266-7). The parish of Clonkeen is the most W parish in the diocese of Emly (Seymour 1906-07, 367). In 1615, Clonkeen Church was listed as a chapel with no curate and the rectory was mensal lands belonging to the Archbishop of Cashel (ibid.). The chapel appears to be in ruins for in this year it was recorded that 'Clonkenyn Chapel, down, in Carkinlis Deanery' (Westropp 1904-5, 439). In 1634-5 the church lands of Clonkeen were described as the ‘Manor of Cloynkine did anciently consist of 8 Plowlands, and the Bishop did give the same to the Abbot of Wothney (Abbey Owney LI014-014002-) for a certain time for the Tythes of certain livings impropriate to the said Abbey, and now the farmers of the said Abbey hold the sd Tieths and all ye sd landes, saving one Plowland in Cloynkine, the ⅓ part of which Plowland is in the possession of Richard mcWilliam Bourke, of Killonan, and another third part of ye sd Plowlands is in the possession of the Lord Bourke, of Brittas, and the other 3rd part of the same Plowland is in the possession of ye .... of Ballaghsymon, and another Plowland is in Balliginore in the possession of ye sd Lord of Brittas, and half a Plowland called Maddybuoy in the possession of Geoffrey fitz Ullick Bourke, and his brother, Edmond fitz Ullick Bourke’ (ibid., 368). In 1837 it was recorded that the W doorway of the church had been badly damaged by Whiteboys in 1762 and had not been repaired by that time (Lewis 1837, 33, 51). Church ruins described in 1877 as a ‘simple oblong chamber measuring 46 ft. [14m] in length, by 17 ft. 10 in. [5.43m] wide; the walls which are perfect, are 3ft. [0.9m] thick except the west gable, which is 3ft. 10in. [1.16m] The masonry is of sandstone in rough courses, the blocks unworked and of ordinary size. The north wall rests upon a plinth. There are pilasters at the corners of the east and west ends, 2 ft. [0.6m] deep and 2ft. 9in. [0.83m] wide at the west end, and 10in. [0.25m] deep and 2ft. 7in. [0.78m] wide at the east. The west doorway is 8ft. [2.43m] high, 3 ft. 2in. [0.96m] wide at the base, and 3ft [0.9m], wide at the springing of the arch. It is formed of finely chiselled sandstone. The jamb consists of two rectangular piers, which is a richly ornamented rounded shaft crowned by a capital exactly resembling those in the chancel arch of St. Caimin’s (CL029-009011-) at Iniscaltra. The surface of the shaft is diapered with a zigzag moulding enriched with pellets. Two of the arch members are carved in chevrons; the label moulding forms a panel enriched with ornament similar to that on the angle shafts, terminating in animal heads, and having a human head on the keystone’ (Dunraven 1877, 115). In 1881 repair works on Clonkeen Church had been completed by the Board of Works, these works included the removal of ivy, gable stone replaced and the walls were finished and pointed and their tops concreted over (49th Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, 93). Westropp (1904-5, 439-40) described the church as an, ‘interesting little Romanesque oratory of the late eleventh century. It is 46 feet [14m] by 17 feet 10 inches [5.43m] ; the walls, 14 feet [4.26m] by 3 feet 10 inches [1.16m], with antae at each corner. The east, north, and two south lights had round-headed splays and lights ; the south ones defaced, and the east replaced by two pointed lights. The west door is of three recessed orders ; the arch highly decorated, with dog's-tooth mouldings and beadings’. The church building was described by Rev. Seymour in the early 1900s as; ‘an interesting little Romanesque oratory of the late eleventh century, with antae at the four corners, the west door is of three recessed orders; the arch highly decorated with dog's-tooth mouldings and beadings. The building measures internally 45 feet [13.7m] by 17 feet 3 inches [5.25m]; the door is 3 feet [0.9m] wide at the commencement of the arch, and 3 feet 3 inches [0.99m] wide at the ground. The east window is circular-headed inside, and outside is a two light ogee divided by a mullion ; while the window on the south side, near the east end, is a similar one-light, flat-topped inside. These two windows have been re-modelled, and are made of limestone, while the rest of the church is build of a kind of sandstone. On the north side, near the west end, about 6 feet 6 inches [1.98m] off the ground, is a window with circular head and wide splay, which is one of the original windows of the church. Outside, between this and the west gable, is the head of an arch. Opposite this last window, in the south side, is a curious window. It has a flattish arch, cut out of one stone, and is 2 feet 2 in. [0.66m] wide, and 8 feet 6 inches [2.59m] high. Underneath its sill is a square recess going through the wall, originally flat-topped. It is 1 foot 7 inches [0.48m] wide, and 1 foot 4 inches [0.4m] high on the inside; and owing to the fact that it has a sharply-sloping bottom, and also a roof which dips squarely down, the opening on the outside is of exactly the same dimensions’ (ibid. 368-9). Leask (1955, 129) described the church as 'a simple rectangle without any structural division into a nave and chancel; doubtless there was a timber screen between them originally. It measures 45 feet 4 inches [13.8m] in length internally which, with a breadth of 17 feet 9 inches [5.4m], gives a ratio of over 2½ to 1. In itself this suggests a relatively late date for the building. So also do the ornaments of the surviving inner jamb of the one original window (in the north wall): rolls and fillets combined with a band of beaded zig-zag ornament. The antae at both gables are examples of the late survival of these features (cf. also St. Cronan's Church (TN012-010001-) at Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. Two other windows are insertions of fifteenth-century style'. Present remains consist of a multi-period rectangular church (int. dims 14.6m E-W by 5.5m N-S) with antae on both gables entered through a finely carved Romanesque round-headed sandstone doorway of three orders in centre of W gable. The walls survive to full height and two distinctive styles of masonry are visible in the fabric of the building suggesting that the church was extended. Harbison (1970, 147) suggested that the eastern two thirds of the church was added in the 15th century. However Ó Carragáin (2010, 307) suggested that the church was extended to the W in the Romanesque period. The fabric at the W end of the church consists of roughly coursed large sandstone and appears date from the Romanesque period and is contemporaneous with the W doorway and the single light round-headed window located at W end of N wall. This Romanesque round-hea

• LI014-007002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on flat pasture immediately N of the Murroe road (R506) with post-1700 cottage immediately to W and modern bungalow to E. Clonkeen church (LI014-007001-) and graveyard stands on the E townland boundary with Maddyboy. The E boundary of the graveyard forms this townland boundary. The field to the N of the graveyard formed part of the glebe belonging to Clonkeen Church. Depicted on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a church forming N boundary of graveyard with glebe land immediately S of the Murroe Road and N of the church. Indicated on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 30m E-W by 45m N-S) with the ruins of Clonkeen Church (LI014-00701) 4m S of the N boundary wall. Present remains consist of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard entered from a gateway at S off the public road. The graveyard is enclosed by a post-1700 mortared stone wall and hedgerow, the stone boundary wall is only a few metres N and E of the church. The graveyard is still in use and most of the graves are oriented ESE-WNW, in line with Clonkeen Church. All memorials are located to S and W of church, none visible to E and N. The memorials date from the post-1700 to the present day, with a single box tomb of the O’Malley family dating from 1932 visible in E quadrant of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 6 July 2017

• LI014-102---* Castle - unclassified
  Description

  No surface remains visible of Lismullane Castle which stood at the meeting point between the Mulkear and Killeengarriff Rivers. In recent times the field has been reclaimed, ploughed and reseeded with new grass. The old road leading down to this area which is depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map was known as 'The Mill Road'. According to the local landowner there was no tradition of a castle at this location but there was a small cluster of houses and a mill in the fields beside the meeting point of the two rivers. This road appears to have led down to a crossing point over the Killengarriff River marked by a line of stepping stones still visible in the river. The medieval castle appears to have been located beside this crossing point. Castle is depicted on the 1657 Down Survey map of Clonkeen parish as standing on the E bank of the Killeengarriff River (Slievemohera River) where it meets the Mulkear River (NLI, MS 718). Annotated 'Lismullane Castle' on the 1657 Down Survey barony map of Clanwilliam (Hib. Reg.). The barony map clearly shows that the a channel was cut between the two rivers creating an island on which the castle was located. According to the local landowner this area around the river is still known today as the island. Westropp (1906-7, 95) recorded the following details about Lismullane Castle; '1540 Sliocht Edmond Mac William held Lios Mothlán with Lodain beág. Maoilre Burk held Lios Mothlán beág (Rental). 1583 It was held by W. Bourke, Lysmollan C[astle]. (Des. R. 37), and in 1623 by Ric fitz Tho. Bourke (Inq. Chan. 50b). 1655 Lismollane or Lismulhane C[astle], shown as a low, battlemented tower on the Mulkeare (C.S. xxi., p. 41 D.S.A., 1, 3)'. The terrier of the 1657 Down Survey parish map lists 'Water Bourke of Killownane, David Barry, Connor Clancy, Richard Bourke & Donough mcConnor' as the owners of 290 acres of land in Clonkeen which included the castle (ibid.). A cluster of dwellings are depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Reverend Seymour recorded that 'the site is not marked on the present maps ; but it stood where the Slievemohera River runs into the Mulkear, and built by the Bourkes' (1907, 369). See attached Down Survey map of Clonkeen parish map showing Clonkeen Castle standing at the meeting point of two streams Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 6 July 2017

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1810–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span cast-iron and limestone road bridge over the River Killeenagarriff, built in 1818. Comprising cast-iron balustrades with scrolled brackets and soffit having raised lettering and quatrefoil motifs. Pair of square-profile limestone piers to east and west.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-bay single-storey extension to north elevation and two-bay two-storey addition to rear (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor having three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with painted limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted limestone sills. Round-headed opening to east elevation having inset stained glass roundel with stained glass soffits over bipartite timber casement windows. Elliptical-headed opening having shouldered render surround and fanlight over half-glazed timber panelled door. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof. Roughcast render over rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window opening. Square-headed opening having timber battened door. Square-headed opening with replacement uPVC door. Pair of square-profile rubble limestone piers having double-leaf cast-iron gates.

• Clonkeen House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey over basement L-plan house, built c. 1810. Comprising porch to front (south) elevation, oriel windows to west elevation and single-bay three-storey extension with lean-to to rear. Hipped slate roofs having rendered piers and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roofs to porch and extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking one-over-one pane timber sliding windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having tripartite timber casement windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to first floor, west elevation with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to oriels, west elevation having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, limestone sills and panelled render risers. Square-headed openings to east elevation having one-over-one pane timber sliding margin sash window and limestone sill. Square-headed opening to porch with timber panelled door. Flight of rendered steps to entrance having cast-iron railings. Multiple-bay two-storey with dormer attic outbuilding to north having conservatory to west elevation. Pitched slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed openings with replacement half-glazed timber panelled doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate roof. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having timber battened door. Pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers to east with carved caps, plinths and double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates.

• Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, c. 1905, with raised lettering. Maker's mark on base: ' W.T. Allen & Co. London'. Set into rubble stone boundary wall.

• Red House, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached irregular-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, with three-bay two-storey block and return to rear (south) elevation, c. 1840. Later nineteenth-century range comprising gablets, projecting gable-fronted end bay and timber veranda to front (north) elevation, chamfered corner with oriel window and timber porch to west elevation, bay window, timber balcony and three-bay two-storey gable-fronted block to east elevation. Hipped and pitched tiled roofs with terracotta ridge crestings and finials, ornate cast-iron rainwater goods, brick chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboards. Earlier house has pitched slate roof to rear block having rendered chimneystacks. Brick walls having brick plinth course. Roughcast rendered walls to rear block. Camber-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, all with limestone sills. Caved limestone consoles to oriel window. Camber-headed openings to projecting end bay having brick hoodmouldings and bipartite one-over-two pane timber sliding sash window to first floor and bipartite opening to ground floor having stained glass overlights over one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed opening to bay window with stained glass overlights over one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to porch having stained glass overlights over one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed opening to east elevation, first floor having glazed doors, timber shutters and splayed terracotta architrave. Fluted and banded timber pilasters to veranda with limestone plinths and geometric tiles. Camber-headed opening having timber panelled door. Multiple-bay single-storey L-plan range of outbuildings to north having hipped slate roofs. Roughly dressed limestone walls. Segmental-headed door openings with dressed limestone voussoirs. Square-headed door openings. Multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to west. Pitched slate roof. Roughly dressed limestone walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with limestone sills, some having timber louvers, some with fixed windows. Camber-headed openings to ground floor having dressed limestone voussoirs, sills and fixed windows. Arrow slit windows to ground floor. Camber-headed openings with limestone voussoirs and glazed overlights over timber panelled doors. Round-headed carriage arch having limestone voussoirs, brick soffit. Pair of chamfered cast-iron piers with finials, double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates, single-leaf pedestrian gates terminating in pair of square-profile roughly dressed limestone piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Clonkeen (Barrington), about 1 in 10 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 Clonkeen (Barrington).

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.

No address of the register names Clonkeen (Barrington) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Clonkeen (Barrington) · Cluain Caoin (Barrington)

Area

1,173,351 m² (117.34 ha, 289.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,055 people lived in 358 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyvarra Wood, Clonkeen (Molyneux), Lismullane, Maddyboy

Placenames

Clonkeen (Barrington) 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.