Cloghboola
Cloghboola is a townland in the civil parish of Abbeystrowry, barony of Carbery West (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chlochbhuaile.
Parcel 2342923
- Area
- 203,443 m² (20.34 ha, 50.27 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- G3 Greenbelt1 (Cork County Development Plan 2022) The objective
- Townland
- Cloghboola
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- 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
- 56 ha
- 138 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 3,409 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Greenbelt1
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghboola, from 231 m² to 203,443 m² (20.34 ha, 50.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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
- G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 13 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jun 2026Awaiting f.i. response
planning permission for the construction of a detached domestic garage building at Cloghboola, Skibbereen Co.Cork, P81TV02
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1672
12 May 2026Invalid - case closed
planning permission for the construction of a detached domestic garage building at Cloghboola, Skibbereen Co.Cork, P81TV02
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1251
10 Jan 2025Conditional
Planning Permission for (A) Change of use of existing traditional farm building to a domestic dwelling, (B) Extend and carry out alterations to existing building, (C) Install a domestic treatment system and percolation area, (D) Construct a vehicular entrance
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/3
4 Sept 2002Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3908
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 Cloghboola.
Recorded monuments
- CO141-024 Standing stone
Description
In pasture on S-facing slope. Irregular stone aligned N-S (H 1.4m; 0.7m x 0.1m). Curved notch has been picked on bottom half of N and S edge of stone. Similar notch on top. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloghboola.
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 Cloghboola, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloghboola.
- 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 Cloghboola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghboola · An Chlochbhuaile
- Area
- 560,037 m² (56 ha, 138.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeystrowry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery West (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Cloghdonnell, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 388 people lived in 146 households in the Cloghdonnell electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Barnagowlane, Drummig, Lissanoohig, Reencorreen
- Placenames
- Cloghboola 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.