Closutton

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Closutton, from 8 m² to 264,039 m² (26.4 ha, 65.25 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 Closutton 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.

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission is sought for (a) the as-built single storey extensions to the east and south of the existing dwelling including the addition of roof windows to the south and all associated site development works (b) as built extensions to existing agricultural building to the east of the site

  Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21337

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted cubicle house, 2 No. walled silage/forage pits and effluent tank, a new milking parlour, dairy, collection yard and soiled water tank and associated site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 21225

• 31 Aug 2017Conditional

  construction of single storey extension to existing dwelling and all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17261

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 Closutton.

Recorded monuments

• CW015-004 Moated site
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Approximately square platform (c. 48m N-S) enclosed by wet fosse (Wth c. 4m; D 1.4-2m) with causeway (Wth 3.5m) at W. Second, possibly modern entrance at S. Low bank visible outside fosse towards SE corner, not present at S, W or W part of N sides. Known locally as 'The Bawns'. Possibly site of unlocated Down Survey castle (CW015-005----). See attached: CW015-004----_01 Google Earth image (imagery date 25 June 2018) CW015-004----_02 Google Earth image (imagery date 20 March 2019)

• CW015-009 Enclosure
  Description

  Small enclosure visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP R4/31). Not visible at ground level when inspected by ASI in 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW015-010 Earthwork
  Description

  Possible earthworks visible on aerial photograph (GSIAP R4/32). Not visible at ground level when inspected by ASI in 1987. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

• CW015-011 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown on 1908 'OS 6-inch' map as circular area, enclosed by bank at N and scarp at E and S (est max. diam. c. 45m). No visible surface traces. Possibly a ringfort.

• CW015-012 Enclosure
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDR 50) as circular area enclosed by cropmarks of two concentric fosses except at W where a large circular annexe defined by cropmark of fosse is attached directly to inner fosse. Entrance causeway possibly at E. Possibly a bivallate ringfort (est max. diam. c 50m) with annexe (max. dims. c 50m N-S x 35m E-W). No visible surface traces.

• CW016-018001 Church
  Description

  The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 22 December 2009 Revised by: J. Farrelly Present remains consist of nave and chancel church represented by N and S walls of nave (dims. 14m x 6.5m) and N, S and E walls of chancel (7m x 5m). Built of limestone rubble and some granite. Nave: N wall (which has not been repointed stands on approximately full height (est H c. 4.5-5m); S wall largely rebuilt (H c. 1m). Opposed entrances in nave now blocked. Chancel: now cut off from nave by solid wall; N and S walls now featureless and partly rebuilt. Church now stands in rectangular graveyard (CW016-018002-).

• CW016-018002 Graveyard
  Description

  Rectangular graveyard (map dims. c. 48m N-S; c. 41m E-W) which tapers in the S quadrant where two roads converge. A church (CW016-018001-), aligned E-W, is centrally placed within the graveyard. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 19 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Culm crusher, 1840–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Culm crusher, c. 1855, comprising granite roller attached to iron axle and turning handle. Relocated to current site, c. 1982.

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 Closutton, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2364 (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 Closutton with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Closutton · Cloch an tSutúnaigh

Area

2,715,936 m² (271.59 ha, 671.12 acres)

Civil parish

Killinane, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Leighlinbridge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,679 people lived in 637 households in the Leighlinbridge electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockan, Bannagagole, Burgage, Clorusk Upper, Farranafreney, Killinane, Moanduff, Moanmore

Placenames

Closutton 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.