Cloonkeen

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeen, from 475 m² to 369,697 m² (36.97 ha, 91.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Cloonkeen 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.

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single story extension to the front and side of an existing single storey type dwelling house, and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560029

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey extension to the side of existing bungalow type dwelling house together with seeking retention of existing domestic garage as currently constructed and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 21350

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 Cloonkeen.

Recorded monuments

• LF019-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill. Depicted as the SE half of a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A NE-SW running field boundary cut the monument at ENE and WSW. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

• LF019-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope on rough ground within a plantation of coniferous trees. A buffer zone of between 10m and 15m has been left unplanted around the monument. A report in 1977 (SMR file) indicates that this raised oval area (c. 28m E–W; c. 22m N–S) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) and a wide shallow fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Within the interior at SSE is an irregularly shaped depression (max. dim. 8m; D 0.3m) of unknown significance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 29 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonkeen, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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 Cloonkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Cloonkeen · Cluain Caoin

Area

1,088,602 m² (108.86 ha, 269 acres)

Civil parish

Taghsheenod, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Doory, the unit of the census

Census 2022

416 people lived in 156 households in the Doory electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castlerea Mountain, Cloonscott, Keel, Mornin

Placenames

Cloonkeen 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.