Cloncough

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloncough, from 174 m² to 699,357 m² (69.94 ha, 172.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Cloncough 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.

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  construct an agricultural shed for the storage of machinery and fodder and associated site works and retain the following developments: a) canteen, b) wood store, c) the air filtration unit silo, d) extension to end of existing workshop; also retain the vehicular entrance to the south east and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21485

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  retain agricultural shed containing 3 stables, one loose box and fodder storage area and associated site works

  Retention · Laois County Council, 21477

• 5 Jul 2021N/a

  construct an agricultural shed for the storage of machinery and fodder and associated site works and retain the following developments: a) canteen, b) wood store, c) the air filtration unit silo, d) extension to end of existing workshop; also retain the vehicular entrance to the south east and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 21478

• 10 Dec 2020N/a

  erect an agricultural shed for the storage of machinery and fodder and associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20658

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  construct two storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20441

• 20 Nov 2017Conditional

  change of roof design from gable to hipped type on house granted permission under file 16/461 and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 17615

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloncough.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloncough, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloncough · Cluain Cuach

Area

1,000,511 m² (100.05 ha, 247.23 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Raheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 148 households in the Raheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnadarrig, Cappanacloghy, Clonbane, Clonrud, Donore, Killeany

Placenames

Cloncough 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.