Cloonchambers

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonchambers, from 471 m² to 789,571 m² (78.96 ha, 195.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Cloonchambers 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloonchambers 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Cloonchambers Bog SAC 000600
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloonchambers Bog 000600

Recorded monuments

• RO020-037 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the crest of the W end of a low WNW-ESE ridge. An arc (C 22m) of large stones (dims c. 0.8m x c. 0.8m; H c. 0.6m) survives SW-N beneath a drystone wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO026-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a knoll. Subcircular grass-covered area with some scrub (int. diam. 39m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall on the line of the original wall, the outer facing-stones of which can be seen NNW-NE. The original entrance is not identified. 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 Cloonchambers.

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 Cloonchambers, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1045 (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.

• Cloonchambers, Castlerea7 sales

Name

Cloonchambers · Cluain Seamhair

Area

2,967,889 m² (296.79 ha, 733.38 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Coolougher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

509 people lived in 196 households in the Coolougher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arm, Cloonalis, Cloonkeen, Creglahan, Drumalough, Leveelick, Meelickaduff

Placenames

Cloonchambers 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.