Clonony Beg

185 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonony Beg, from 3 m² to 351,933 m² (35.19 ha, 86.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 16 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 May 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwelling house together with all associated site works and services

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660244

• 5 May 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwelling house together with all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660246

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  (A) a new single storey extension to the existing dwelling, (B) renovation works to the existing dwelling, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560684

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR, REMOVAL OF A CHIMNEY AND THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSTION TO THE REAR, ADDITIONAL AND ADJUSTMENTS TO WINDOW OPES, PROPOSED ROOFLIGHTS, ALL INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING. REVISIONS TO EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY AND BOUNDARY WALLS, DEMOLITION OF A LEAN-TO SHED AS PER PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF: 21749 INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 24104

• 8 May 2024Refused

  5 No. 1 bed glamping pods, 2 No. 2 bed glamping pods, connection to public amenities, access and all ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460160

• 23 Apr 2024N/a

  5 No. 1 bed glamping pods, 2 No. 2 bed glamping pods, connection to public amenities, upgrade of access and all ancillary works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460138

• 6 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, REVISIONS TO EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, DRIVEWAY AND BOUNDARY WALL, DEMOLITION OF LEAN-TO SHED, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21749

• 18 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19178

• 18 Jan 2019Conditional

  AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING INCORPORATING A SINGLE STOREY BREAKFAST ROOM & A TWO STOREY STAIRCASE WITH ROOF TERRACE OVER, ALL WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. THE BUILDING IS LISTED ON THE RECORD OF PROTECTED STRUCTURES (RPS: 29-05) WITHIN OFFALY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2014-2020

  Retention, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 1917

• 17 Apr 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 18170

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 Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Grand Canal 002104

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonony Beg.

Architectural heritage

• Canal Bar, house, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1900, with one-bay projection to front and abutting outbuilding to south-east. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Ruled-and-lined render to ground floor with pebbledashed render to ground floor and channelled quoins. Timber sash windows with painted sills. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled door with overnight. Double timber panelled door to centre with painted fascia board. Stone outbuildings with corrugated roofs to north-east.

• Griffith Bridge, bridge, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry canal bridge, dated 1803, carrying the road into Shannon Harbour over the Grand Canal. Squared random rubble stone walls with dressed limestone voussoirs, string course, parapet wall and splayed abutments. Plaques to upstream and downstream elevations read: "GRIFFITH/BRIDGE/1803". Limestone towing path flanking canal under archway.

• Water pump, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron water pump, c.1860, with banded neck, fluted cap and finial. Fluting to neck of spout and cow's tail handle. Set in stone platform to side of road.

• The Grand Hotel, hotel, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement former hotel, built in 1806, with pedimented central stepped breakfront. Now in a ruinous state. Set back from canal side. Roofless with cast-iron rainwater goods. Pebbledash render to walls with limestone string and eaves courses. Limestone quoins to ground floor of breakfront. Window openings with tooled limestone sills. Windows to breakfront set in round-headed recesses. Oculus to pediment with limestone surround may have held a clock. Segmental-headed door opening with tooled limestone keystone. Door accessed by seven stone steps. Site bounded to front by roughly coursed limestone wall with limestone coping. Outbuildings to rear. Access to rear through wrought-iron gates to ashlar gate piers.

• The Harbour Master's House, worker's house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former harbour master's house, built in 1806 with single-bay single-storey flanking bays and extension to rear. Now a bed and breakfast. Set within its own grounds adjacent to the Grand Canal. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Rendered walls with string course over basement. Replacement timber sash windows with rendered surrounds and painted sills. Round-headed door opening with tooled stone surround to timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Tooled limestone steps, some replaced to door. Boot scraper, cast- and wrought-iron railings to steps and front site. Rear of site bounded by random coursed wall.

• Shannon Harbour Barracks, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of two-bay three-storey semi-detached houses, built c.1830, with return to rear and carriage arches set in flanking walls. Now derelict. Set within its own grounds. Pitched slate roof hidden by parapet with red brick chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast render to walls with exposed stone in places. Blocked and open window openings with stone sills. One surviving timber sash window. Blocked square-headed door openings. Blocked red brick segmental-headed carriage arches flanking building. Side and rear site bounded by random coursed limestone wall.

• Dry dock, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Pair of dry docks, built c.1830. Upper dock enclosed by corrugated-iron canopy. Upper dock flooded. Stepped tooled limestone walls to lower dock with central drain gate on winch. Iron gate to canal end of dock. Cast-iron mooring bollards to dockside.

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 Clonony Beg, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1584 (ZIP).

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 Clonony Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Clonony Beg · Cluain Damhna Beag

Area

2,863,938 m² (286.39 ha, 707.69 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Shannonharbour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

363 people lived in 132 households in the Shannonharbour electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinkee, Clonony More, Cornamona, Cush, Moystown Demesne, Park

Placenames

Clonony Beg 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.