Cloonnacross

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonnacross, from 19 m² to 85,548 m² (8.55 ha, 21.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Cloonnacross 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Conditional

  for change of house plans from those previously granted under planning permission reference number 22/60880 and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561503

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  sought to retain the existing cattle holding facilities, full planning permission also sought to install an underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 71.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560445

• 6 Mar 2025N/a

  of the existing cattle holding facilities and full planning permission also sought to install a underground effluent storage tank and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 71.00 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560230

• 23 Apr 2024Conditional

  for works to existing bungalow to include new windows and doors and external insulation, the construction of a single story extension to the side and the construction of a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 91 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24111

• 1 Sept 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 178sqm (dwelling house) and 50sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260880

• 25 Jan 2022Refused

  consequent on ref number 19/1078 to construct a private dwelling house, also wish to apply for full permission for a domestic garage in addition to applying for retention of revised reduced site boundaries to that granted under outline ref 19/1078. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 204 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm.

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2259

• 23 Dec 2019Refused

  on ref number 19/1078 to construct a private dwelling house, on revised (reduced site boundaries) to that granted under outline ref 19/1078. Gross floor space of proposed works: 138 sqm

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Galway County Council, 192035

• 16 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230 sqm

  Outline permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191078

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 Cloonnacross.

Recorded monuments

• GA016-044 Leacht cuimhne
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved square mortared pier with a pyramidal top (L 2.46m, H 2m), set on a stone plinth. A field wall runs off to N and S. An inscription on a plaque on its N face commemorates Edmund Hopkins and family and is dated 1686. The inscription reads: GOD BE MERCIFULL UNTO THE SOUL OF EDMUND HOPKINS AND HIS FAMILY. HE DYED THE EIGHT OF JUNE ANNO DONI 1686. The monument was conserved in 2011. (Alcock et al. 1999, No. 3593) Revised by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 11 April 2016

Architectural heritage

• Monument, 1685–1690 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding limestone monument, dated 1686, comprising square-plan pier with pyramidal top. Built of coursed rubble limestone, with inscribed plaque commemorating Edmund Hopkins.

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 Cloonnacross, 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 Cloonnacross.

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 Cloonnacross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cloonnacross · Cluain na Croise

Area

624,775 m² (62.48 ha, 154.39 acres)

Civil parish

Addergoole, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Milltown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

704 people lived in 266 households in the Milltown electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymary, Cartron, Coollicknalea, Drum, Gortnaloura, Lack, Milltown

Placenames

Cloonnacross 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.