Cloongownagh

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloongownagh, from 297 m² to 140,331 m² (14.03 ha, 34.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloongownagh 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.

• 3 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of a slatted cubicle house, roofed feed passaged, slatted tanks, calving pens, concrete yard for calf hutches and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2624

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211581

• 7 Dec 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, garage, waste water treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201295

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 the townland of Cloongownagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI012-062 Enclosure
  Description

  In tree and scrub covered area, atop rise. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 4.1m) with a dry-stone wall (int. H 1.85m; Wth 0.55m) running along its top edge. Wall is best preserved along NW arc. Interior is masked by overgrowth. The N third of enclosure separated from remainder by transverse stone wall with central opening framed by two cylindrical stone piers. Site is named on 1841 OS 6-inch map a 'sheep fold'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• RIC barracks, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840, with single-bay single-storey addition to north elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and render copings. Pitched slate roof to addition, flat roof to extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor having bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with timber casement windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having half-glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed opening to addition with timber battened door. Rubble limestone boundary walls to east having square-profile rubble limestone piers with single-leaf cast-iron gate. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north-east having double-leaf metal gates.

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 Cloongownagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_779 (ZIP).

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 Cloongownagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Cloongownagh · Cluain Gamhna

Area

1,862,717 m² (186.27 ha, 460.29 acres)

Civil parish

Adare, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Adare North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

617 people lived in 210 households in the Adare North electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Capparoe, Clorhane, Kilbreedy, Kildimo, Kilmoreen, Monanooag, Shantraud

Placenames

Cloongownagh 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.