Clooneen

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 9 m² to 61,942 m² (6.19 ha, 15.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Clooneen 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.

• 10 Nov 2025Conditional

  for change of house plans from those previously granted under planning permission reference number 22/167and all ancillary siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561647

• 15 Jul 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 168 sqm (H) & 38 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22880

• 11 Feb 2022Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 209 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22167

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 203 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212021

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 193 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211916

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 253 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211754

• 17 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211071

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store, septic tank and treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21567

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA017-073 Mill - unclassified
  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

• Bridge, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-arch random rubble limestone road bridge, built c.1760, over Sinking River. Slightly pointed central arches flanked by segmental arches. Thin rubble stone voussoirs to arch rings, gunnelling to arch soffits. Flat-fronted concreted cutwaters. Metal bracing clamps to either side of each arch. Random rubble limestone spandrels and parapets, latter with stones laid on edge. Section of parapet to south-west replaced with concrete block and flat coping. Recent concrete blockwork supporting pipework to south-west elevation. Random rubble limestone walls to adjoining fields.

• Mill (water), 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay three-storey water mill, built c.1760, now derelict, with three-storey three-bay building attached to south and having single-storey return to rear. Three-storey east elevation. Two-storey rear elevation built into hillside. Southern building roofless with remaining stone copings. Natural slate roof to north building. Random coursed rubble limestone walls with limestone quoins. Square-headed openings with timber and fieldstone lintels and random rubble sills. Timber battened doors, and with timber battened boards to window openings. Building set back from road in open field. River flows to east side of mill.

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooneen.

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 Clooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Clooneen · An Cluainín

Area

325,623 m² (32.56 ha, 80.46 acres)

Civil parish

Dunmore, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Dunmore South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunmore South electoral division: 891 people in 351 households; 70% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlefarm, Dunmore, Grange, Knockatee East

Placenames

Clooneen 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.