Clonkeen

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonkeen, from 574 m² to 348,249 m² (34.82 ha, 86.05 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 Clonkeen 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO THE SIDE AND ADD 2 NO. ROOF WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION, ALSO RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660318

• 21 May 2026N/a

  EXTEND EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO THE SIDE AND ADD 2 NO. ROOF WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION, ALSO RELOCATION OF EXISTING ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660298

• 6 Apr 2021Conditional

  retain the conversion of the first floor to include 2 bedrooms and bathroom, new window, rooflight, bored well and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21203

• 12 Feb 2021N/a

  retain the conversion of the first floor to include 2 bedrooms and bathroom, new window, rooflight, bored well and associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2178

• 13 Dec 2018Conditional

  retain entrance, garage, domestic extensions and alterations and associated site works to existing dwelling

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18742

• 17 Oct 2017Conditional

  amend previously granted plg. no. 17/54; amendments include the removal of carport, changes to the garage elevations and minor alterations to the dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17552

• 3 Feb 2017Conditional

  construct new dwelling house, domestic garage, new septic tank treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 1754

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 Clonkeen.

Recorded monuments

• LA029-025 Church
  Description

  Depicted as 'Cloekine' church on the 1563 map of Laois-Offaly where it is shown standing on lands annotated as ‘Franamanagh’ or monastic lands. Church site associated with St Fintan who was supposedly born at Clonkeen (Comerford 1886, 107). Building recorded in the 19th century as a possible nave and chancel church (Comerford 1886 vol. 3, 106-7). The Martyrology of Donegal records under the date 7th of February the death of ‘Fiontain, Priest, of Cluain-Caoin [Clonkeen]’ (Comerford 1886, 107). It is possible that this structure was originally built as a single cell undivided rectangular church with a second structure built on to the E gable of the church at a later date giving the building the appearance of a nave and chancel church. Present remains consist of the ivy-clad remains of a church standing in the N quadrant of a graveyard (LA029-025001-). The church appears to consist of a single cell rectangular structure that has been recorded as a possible nave (int. dims. 6.45m N-S; 12.1m E-W; wall T 0.8m) with the remains of a broken out doorway (Wth 2.3m; H of opening 2.65m) located at W end of S wall. This possible nave was lit by a broken out single light window in the centre of the N wall and by a larger broken out window in the centre of the S wall. The remains of a small wall cupboard survive at the E end of the S wall. There are no windows or openings visible in the ivy-clad W wall. A small narrow ope (Wth 0.45m; H 0.5m) in the centre of the E wall is all that survives on this ivy-clad wall. The ivy-clad walls of the possible nave survive to full height (H c 3.5-4m) and are constructed with rubble masonry which is different from the rubble masonry used to construct the structure added on to the E end of the church that has been identified as a possible chancel. There is good evidence of internal plaster which is well preserved on the S wall and particularly around the S window. The remains of a poorly preserved possible chancel (int. dims. 5.35m N-S; 7.5m E-W) survive on the E end of the upstanding church, there are no visible remains of a blocked-up chancel arch and no evidence of any blocked up doorway connecting the nave with the chancel. The masonry style of the chancel walls are different from the nave and the presence of a butt-joint at the NW and SW angles of the chancel suggests that this structure was added on to the E end of the church at a later date. A dressed limestone corbel can be seen in the NW angle of the N wall. Only the lower courses survive of the walls of this structure, except the W ends of the N and S walls where they meet the NE and SE angles of the so-called nave. The interior of the chancel is now covered with broken memorials and appears to have been used as a private burial area of some local families. Described by Comerford in the 19th century as a church that was 'divided into two portions that would represent nave and chancel, except that there is a solid wall seperating them apparently as old as the rest of the building, and only pierced by a window high up. Dimensions: nave 45 feet [13.7m E-W] by 22 feet [6.7m N-S]; chancel (if it may be called so), 25 feet [7.6m E-W] by 18 feet [5.5m N-S]. In 1731 it is stated that in the parish of Clonkeen there was 'one Mass house, a wooden covering in ye fields - one schoolmaster; the popish priest, William Keating'. (Ibid. 106-07). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 09 October 2013

• LA029-025001 Graveyard
  Description

  Dedicated to St. Fintan (Comerford 106-107). It consists of the ruins of a divided nave and chancel church (LA029-025), built with roughly coursed limestone blocks. An opening in the East end of the South wall may represent the doorway. No opening between nave and chancel. Otherwise featureless. Irregularly shaped graveyard (int. dims. 49m N-S; 48m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Church located in N quadrant of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Clonkeen, about 1 in 10 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 high, 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 Clonkeen.

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 Clonkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Clonkeen · Cluain Caoin

Area

1,864,120 m² (186.41 ha, 460.63 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyleix, and its townlands

Barony

Cullenagh

Electoral division

Abbeyleix, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,979 people lived in 1,145 households in the Abbeyleix electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyleix Demesne, Ballymullen, Brandra, Curraghacronacon, Drimaterril, Granafallow, Lisbigney, Raggettstown

Placenames

Clonkeen 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.