Clooncah

130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncah, from 819 m² to 133,244 m² (13.32 ha, 32.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clooncah 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.

• 5 Jul 2026N/a

  Permission to construct a two storey detached dwelling house and garage with wastewater treatment system to include tertiary treatment system and attenuation area and all associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2660328

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  Permission for the construction of a machinery shed, a farm office, and associated site works at an existing farmyard at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660003

• 10 Nov 2025N/a

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of a machinery and associated site development works at an existing farmyard at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560531

• 3 Jul 2025Conditional

  Retention Permission for an extension to an existing dwellinghouse & for a shed/store at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560324

• 13 Dec 2023Conditional

  Permission to 1. Refurbish existing dwelling house, to include alterations to existing elevations and construct new rear extension to same. 2. To form new site boundaries with new boundary walls to both sides of the house including new pedestrian gate to east side of house, new post and rail fence to the rear of the site and use the existing boundary hedge to define the garden space associated with the building unit, and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2360267

• 29 Nov 2023Refused

  Permission to construct a two storey dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23413

• 20 Dec 2022Refused

  Retention Permission to retain an existing extension to the side of an existing dwelling; to retain an existing shed/store; Permission for new site boundaries and alterations to an existing site entrance at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22674

• 4 Aug 2022Conditional

  Permission for construction a two-storey dwelling, domestic garage, effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22413

• 4 Mar 2020Conditional

  1) to retain revised boundaries to those granted under PD/04/1684 and to retain existing domestic garage and 2) to construct an extension to an existing dwelling house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2090

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  to retain as constructed site layout where position of house differs slightly to that granted under pd-04-1683 at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19525

• 25 Jul 2019N/a

  to retain an existing domestic garage and planning permission to construct an extension to an existing dwelling house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19377

• 8 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage with proprietary treatment system and percolation and associated site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19347

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18224

• 1 Feb 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new forest road entrance and associated site works for the purposes of harvesting a plantation at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1832

• 19 Dec 2017N/a

  for the construction of 2 no. new forest road entrances and associated site works for the purpose of harvesting a plantation at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17508

• 26 Jun 2017Refused

  to construct a dormer bungalow type dwelling and domestic garage with the installation of a treatment system and associated polishing filter. Permission is also sought to construct a new site entrance and to erect site boundaries together with all associated site works all at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17287

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 Clooncah.

Recorded monuments

• RO029-130 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as an almost complete circular field (diam. c. 50m) on the 1837 and 1915 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a level landscape at the W foot of Slieve Bawn. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 40m E-W; 38m N-S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.4m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Rath (RO029-129----) is c. 180m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO036-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope of a broad low hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. c. 46m E-W; 44m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 1.6-2.8m; int. H 0.15-0.6m; ext. H 0.75-1.1m) SW-N which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.85m) elsewhere, and by an overgrown rounded fosse (Wth of base 2.2-2.6m; D 0.3-0.65m) WNW-N-SE which has been re-cut as a drain SW-WNW and backfilled at N and E-SE. The fosse is truncated by a road wall at S, and there is no identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO036-005 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked as a small subrectangular enclosure (dims c. 35m E-W; c. 35m N-S) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a steep N-facing slope at the W foothills of Slieve Bawn. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooncah.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Clooncah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Clooncah · Cluain Catha

Area

2,295,526 m² (229.55 ha, 567.24 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Kilgefin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilgefin electoral division: 300 people in 119 households; 91% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalahard, Aghamuck, Derreen, Killultagh, Lackan, Moher, Reagh, Tuam

Placenames

Clooncah 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.