Clonmore
Clonmore is a townland in the civil parish of Clonsast, barony of Coolestown, Co. Offaly. Its name in Irish is Cluain Mór.
Parcel 302304
- Area
- 17,481 m² (1.75 ha, 4.32 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
- Clonmore
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 182.5 ha
- 451 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 12,433 m² (1.24 ha, 3.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonmore, from 531 m² to 103,900 m² (10.39 ha, 25.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clonmore 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
16 Sept 2026N/a
a dormer style dwelling, wastewater treatment system, new recessed entrance & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2660493
2 Dec 2025Conditional
(A) the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling, (B) the renovation of an existing cottage, (C) the construction of a two storey extension to an existing cottage, (D) the construction of a domestic garage, (E) the construction of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560611
25 Nov 2025N/a
(A) the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling, (B) the renovation of an existing cottage, (C) the construction of a two storey extension to an existing cottage, (D) the construction of a domestic garage, (E) the construction of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560588
5 Nov 2025N/a
(A) the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling, (B) the renovation of an existing cottage, (C) the construction of a two storey extension to an existing cottage, (D) the construction of a domestic garage, (E) the construction of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560535
9 Feb 2018Conditional
NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH SLATTED UNITS TO INCORPORATE MILKING MACHINES, NEW CONCRETE APRONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Offaly County Council, 1855
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clonmore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clonmore.
Architectural heritage
- Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached two-storey former presbytery, built c.1760, with return to rear and chapel to north. Extended to south, c.1850, with addition of three-bay two-storey house adjoining front façade of earlier house. Now in use as a private dwelling. Hipped and pitched slate and tiled roof with rendered and red brick chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles. Pebbledashed walls with stucco quoins. Square-headed window openings with timber sash windows and tooled limestone and concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Three-bay former chapel to north with lancet windows. Rendered entrance piers and quadrant walls to roadside.
- Farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey thatched farmhouse, built c.1800, with flat-roofed extensions to rear and pitched slate-roofed extension to north gable. Pitched (north end) and hipped (south end) oaten straw roof with decorative knotted ridge and having rendered brick chimneystacks topped in concrete. Pebbledashed clay walls except for concrete-walled northernmost bay, with render quoins to south gable. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows. Windbreak addition with gabled thatched roof and having timber panelled and glazed door, replacing earlier doorway formerly located between southernmost windows. Garden to road, having rendered boundary wall and piers with wrought-iron gates. Farmyard to rear and side having outbuildings with pitched corrugated-iron roofs and rendered walls.
- Post box, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Wall-mounted cast-iron lamp box, c.1910, with ER royal cipher and in raised lettering above aperture 'LETTERS ONLY'. Attached to wall at the gates to the former presbytery at Clonmore.
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 Clonmore, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clonmore.
- 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 Clonmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.
The townland
- Name
- Clonmore · Cluain Mór
- Area
- 1,825,039 m² (182.5 ha, 450.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonsast, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Electoral division
- Bracknagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,141 people lived in 381 households in the Bracknagh electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghameelick, Clonavoe, Cloncassan, Derrygarran, Nahana
- Placenames
- Clonmore 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.