Cloonkeen (Ffrench)
Cloonkeen (Ffrench) is a townland in the civil parish of Killian, barony of Killian, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cluain Caoin (Ffrench).
Parcel 1999588
- Area
- 39,711 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cloonkeen (Ffrench)
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- GA032-016 Children's burial ground
Description
On a S-facing slope overlooking the Kingstown River to W. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a very small C-shaped area (D c. 8m). Now indicated by a subrectangular unenclosed raised area (L 8.2m, Wth 6.3m) within which are a number of small set stones indicating graves aligned WNW-ESE. Possibly a CBG. 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
- GA032-016001 Enclosure
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 67.2 ha
- 166 acres
- Land parcels
- 54
- registered freehold, median 8,812 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeen (Ffrench), from 703 m² to 45,956 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonkeen (Ffrench) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Jun 2026Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter domestic garage & all associated site work
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661052
6 Jun 2023Conditional
to construct a new dwellinghouse, wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360608
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonkeen (Ffrench).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonkeen (Ffrench).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonkeen (Ffrench).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonkeen (Ffrench), about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonkeen (Ffrench).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonkeen (Ffrench) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonkeen (Ffrench) · Cluain Caoin (Ffrench)
- Area
- 671,985 m² (67.2 ha, 166.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killian, and its townlands
- Barony
- Killian
- Electoral division
- Cloonkeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 353 people lived in 125 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynacorra (Ffrench), Cappagh, Cloonfinnoge, Cloonkeen (Davies), Cloonkeen (Kelly), Cloonkeen (Netterville)
- Placenames
- Cloonkeen (Ffrench) 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.