Cloghan
Cloghan is a townland in the civil parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 2820143
- Area
- 28,077 m² (2.81 ha, 6.94 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cloghan
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.
- RO044-054001 Enclosure
Description
On a slight slope down to N and E in a low-lying landscape. The church (RO044-054002-) is at the centre of a D-shaped grass-covered enclosure (dims 41.5m N-S; 38.8m E-W) which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.15-0.25m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m), with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1m; D 0.2m) at E. There is a local tradition of its use as a Children's Burial Ground (RO044-054003-), but no evidence of this. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-054002 Church
Description
This is an early ecclesiastical site with no known history, situated on a slight slope down to the N and E in a low-lying landscape. A grass-covered platform (dims. 9.2m E-W; 7.8m N-S; H 0.1-0.2m) is thought to be a church, locally called Taghshane or Teach Sean. This is at the centre of a D-shaped grass-covered enclosure (RO044-054001-) (dims. 41.5m N-S; 38.8m E-W) which is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-3m; int. H 0.15-0.25m; ext. H 0.5-0.8m), with traces of a fosse (Wth of base 1m; D 0.2m) at E. There is a local tradition of its use as a Children's Burial Ground (RO044-054003-), but no evidence of this. This enclosure is truncated at N by a NW-SE roadway (RO044-054004-) (surviving L 120m; Wth 2.2m) defined by two earth and stone banks (Wth 2.3-2.5m; int. H 0.4-0.55m; ext. H 0.65-0.75m) and outer silted drains (Wth of base 0.5-0.8m; D 0.25-0.5m). This road turns SW (L 21m) just W of the enclosure. The roadway is cut at E by a bank of, and it survives within, a large D-shaped grass-covered ecclesiastical enclosure (RO044-054005-) (dims. c. 150m NW-SE; c. 120m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.5m; H 0.2m) separated by a berm (at SE: Wth 1.8m) from a second bank (at SE: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.2m), a flat-bottomed fosse (at SE: Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.7m) and a counterscarp bank (at SE: Wth 3m; ext. H 0.1m) surviving NW-S (at SE: total Wth 13m). Field walls and reclaimation have disturbed the perimeter of this enclosure SW-NN. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-054003 Children's burial ground
Description
On a slight slope down to N and E in a low-lying landscape. There is a local tradition of the use of the church (RO044-054002-) and enclosure (RO044-054001-) as a Children's Burial Ground, but no evidence of this. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-054004 Road - road/trackway
Description
On a slight slope down to the N and E in a low-lying landscape. The enclosure (RO044-054001-) around the church (RO044-054002-) is truncated at N by a WNW-ESE roadway (surviving L 100m; Wth 2.2m) defined by two earth and stone banks (Wth 2.3-2.5m; int. H 0.4-0.55m; ext. H 0.65-0.75m) and outer silted drains (Wth of base 0.5-0.8m; D 0.25-0.5m). This road turns SW (L 21m) just W of the enclosure and is cut by at E by a bank of the ecclesiastical enclosure (RO044-054005-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-054005 Ecclesiastical enclosure
Description
On a slight slope down to N and E in a low-lying landscape. The church (RO044-054002-), enclosure (RO044-054001-) and road (RO044-054004-) are within a D-shaped grass-covered enclosure (dims. c. 150m NW-SE; c. 90-120m NE-SW) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth 3.5m; H 0.2m) separated by a berm (at SE: Wth 1.8m) from a second bank (at SE: Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.2m), a flat-bottomed fosse (at SE: Wth of base 1.5m; ext. D 0.7m) and a counterscarp bank (at SE: Wth 3m; ext. H 0.1m) surviving NW-E-S (at SE: total Wth 13m). Field walls and reclamation have disturbed the perimeter of this enclosure SW-NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1345 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 155.8 ha
- 385 acres
- Land parcels
- 102
- registered freehold, median 6,552 m² (0.66 ha, 1.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan, from 539 m² to 284,554 m² (28.46 ha, 70.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloghan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission for development to upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment system on site and all ancillary development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460472
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Four Roads Turlough SAC 001637
- Special Protection Area: Four Roads Turlough SPA 004140
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Four Roads Turlough 001637
Recorded monuments
- RO044-055001 Castle - tower house
Description
It was probably built by the Kellys in the 16th century. Myles Cavanagh had a lease on it in 1623 (Cronin 1980, 115), but it was owned by Justice James Donnellan in 1641 along with 162 acres at Cloghankeeny also known as Carrowncaslane (Simington 1949, 111). The Donnellans were connected with the Clanrickard Burkes (Beirne 1997c) and was president of the high court that tried many of the leaders of the 1641 rebellion in 1652 (Ellis 1975, 54-5). Situated on a very slight W-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular structure (ext. dims 11.8m NW-SE; 9.2m NE-SW) surviving partly to three floors with good quoins and a base batter. A destroyed doorway towards the S end of the SE wall leads to a destroyed lobby with a vaulted guardroom (int. dims 2.6m NE-SW; 1.8m NW-SE; H 2.15m) to the N containing a light and a double gun-loop of dressed stone. The lobby leads through a destroyed doorway (Wth 1.2m; H 2.2m) to the ground floor which has a window embrasure on the SW wall, an embrasure with a gun-loop on the NW wall and a destroyed wall on the NE side. S of the entrance lobby a destroyed spiral stairs with lights and gun-loops gives access to at least two upper floors. There is no evidence of a barrel vault, but a quoinstone at the S angle has a sheela-na-gig (RO044-055002-) at the second floor level. See the attached general view from the S (001) and of the double gun-loop (002) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 December 2018
- RO044-055002 Sheela-na-gig
Description
A quoinstone (dims c. 0.6m x c. 0.3m) at the S angle of tower house (RO044-055001-) and at the second floor level has a sheela-na-gig in relief with slightly flexed legs (Andersen 1977, 147, No. 69; Siggins 1990, 45; Freitag 2004, 128). See the attached images See attached screenshot (RO044-055002-_01/) of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6sWQt Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO044-123 Enclosure
Description
Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped wood, and situated on a gentle S and W-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Subrectangular or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 59m E-W; 48m N-S) planted with deciduous trees, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.1-0.35m; ext. H 0.6-1m) on all sides except the S where it is reduced to a scarp (H 1m). There is no visible fosse, but there are entrance gaps at ESE (Wth 4m) and SSE (Wth 4m). It might be a tree-ring. 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 Cloghan.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cloghan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1345 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloghan
- Area
- 1,557,600 m² (155.76 ha, 384.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Taghboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Taghboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 535 people lived in 177 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carricknagat, Carroward, Carrownurlar, Cloonlaughnan, Cuilnakeava, Curraghadoon, Jamestown, Taghboy
- Placenames
- Cloghan 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.