Cloonlusk

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonlusk, from 377 m² to 460,461 m² (46.05 ha, 113.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Cloonlusk 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.

• 6 Dec 2024Conditional

  and complete partial demolition and reconstruction of fire damaged dwelling house, to include a proposed extension and alterations to previously approved dwelling house and to retain and complete the above and the existing domestic garage, septic tank and all associated services and site works on revised site boundaries from those granted under Planning Reference No. 00/350. Gross floor area to be retained: 262.00 sqm(house) & 55.00 sqm(garage)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461665

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

• GA044-037001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  In flat farmland overlooking bogland to N and E. A large circular enclosure (D 76.5m), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank and external fosse, best preserved from ESE through W to NNE: only a slight scarp is visible elsewhere. There are gaps in the bank at WSW, NW and SE, all presently used as a means of access for farm machinery. These is a CBG (GA044-037002-) in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA044-037002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Just N of centre in a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA044-37001-). Named on OS 6-inch maps as a 'Grave Yard', but it is known locally as a CBG. It comprises a roughly rectangular area (NW-SE 18.9m, NE-SW 13.1m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.8m max.) save along SW side which is partly defined by a stone revetment. The interior is occupied by several rows of small undressed headstones running NW-SE, indicating graves oriented roughly E-W. Four rectangular areas defined by set stones, probably individual graves, are visible, while a cluster of three whitethorn bushes mantle SE end. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA044-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 42.3m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse, best preserved from SW through W to N. The monument has been quarried out at NE, SE and SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA044-039 Quarry
  Description

  In low-lying, reclaimed and gently undulating pastureland. No visible surface trace survives of a hachured feature marked on the 1932 edition of the OS 6-inch map. According to the landowner, it was a small quarry that was filled in during reclamation works. As it was of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 July 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonlusk.

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 Cloonlusk, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_793 (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 Cloonlusk with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cloonlusk · Cluain Loiscthe

Area

1,353,357 m² (135.34 ha, 334.42 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballynapark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,101 people lived in 336 households in the Ballynapark electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakilla, Cahergal, Clooninagh, Gortbeg, Pollbaun

Placenames

Cloonlusk 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.