Clooneen

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 258 m² to 178,605 m² (17.86 ha, 44.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 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.

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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 Clooneen.

Recorded monuments

• GA042-103 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (E-W c. 30m, N-S c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1820, over stream. Random rubble walls, tooled voussoirs to arch rings with random rubble intrados, and field stone to parapet walls. Random rubble stepped retaining walls to banks with culvert under adjacent road. Random rubble walls to east.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with dormer attic, built c.1800, having windbreak to entrance and late twentieth-century single-storey extension to rear. Rendered walls with rendered plinth, raised quoins to walls and to windbreak, and moulded eaves course. Pitched thatched roof with decorative knotting to ridge, stone copings having decorative moulded pilaster to one end, and one low rendered chimneystack. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds, painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Sheeted timber door with plain overlight. Set parallel to road with single-storey random rubble outbuilding to east and yard to rear.

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 Clooneen, 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 Clooneen.

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

Name

Clooneen · An Cluainín

Area

763,913 m² (76.39 ha, 188.77 acres)

Civil parish

Killeany, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,864 people lived in 695 households in the Headford electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balrickard, Cloghanower, Cuilleen, Deerpark, Gortrory or Rogersfield, Liss

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.