Clooneenroe

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneenroe, from 18,046 m² (1.8 ha, 4.46 acres) to 31,038 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 1 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 Clooneenroe 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.

• 14 Nov 2024Refused

  PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS MAX HEIGHT OF HOUSE 5.3M

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460406

• 24 Oct 2024N/a

  PLANNING PERMISSION SOUGHT FOR PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460382

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the change of use at Markree Stable Block, a Protected Structure, to provide a Function Venue and a self-Catering Apartment in lieu of 10 no. Bedrooms previously approved as Bed and Breakfast accommodation under Planning Ref. 16/235

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20444

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: Unshin River SAC 001898
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Unshin River 001898

Recorded monuments

• SL026-037 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Enclosure Possible' and 'Tree Ring' respectively. In undulating pasture, on the demesne of Markree Castle (SL026-038----). On the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map it is depicted as an irregularly-shaped tree-covered area. Upstanding remains comprise an irregularly-shaped area (78m x 41m) enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3m; D 0.6m) with external bank (Wth 2.2m; ext. H 0.8m). The interior is planted with trees. This is a landscape feature of post-1700 AD date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 11 January 2012

• SL026-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating marshy pasture, on the demesne of Markree Castle (SL026-038----). A circular platform (diam. 25m; H 0.2m), eroded in places. There is a ramp (Wth 1.5m) to the top at E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

• Markree Castle, building misc, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey rendered former observatory, built c. 1850. Circular main structure without roof, pitched roof building to west, small circular brick structure to east, pitched roof house to north with two canted bay windows. Pitched slate roofs, transverse (telescope?) slot to west building, clay ridge tiles, moulded uPVC gutters, unpainted smooth-rendered flat-capped chimneystack, unpainted smooth-rendered walling, dressed stone coping to top of circular walls. Square-headed window openings, limestone sills, uPVC windows. Various plinths and podiums for scientific instruments. Located to north-east of Markree Castle, early weather station with wrought-iron boundary fence to south.

• Markree Castle, stables, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached stone stable yard, built c. 1830. Square plan, castellated entrance front (west) with crenellated corbelled parapet, central three-bay breakfront with battered sides and square-profile buttresses terminating in crenellated turrets. Square-profile crenellated corner towers. Partially converted to private dwelling with two-storey house added to north c. 1990. Hipped slate roof, dressed stone chimneystack to north-east, cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walling with tooled limestone ashlar quoins, parapets and buttresses, limestone corbels to parapet. Square headed window openings, limestone hood moulds to first floor windows, chamfered reveals, limestone sills, timber casements c. 1990. Square-headed slit windows with limestone ashlar surrounds, chamfered reveals to ground floor. Pointed-arch window openings to south elevation, remains of original six-over-six timber sash windows. Pointed-arch door opening to centre of west breakfront, ashlar surround, chamfered reveals, limestone flagstones, painted timber double doors each with twelve panels. Set back from laneway with landscaped parkland to west and north, farmland to east and south, rubble stone boundary wall with rusticated limestone gate piers to west.

• Markree Castle, farmyard complex, 1770–1775 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached former farmyard complex, built 1771, extensively renovated and converted to holiday accommodation c. 2000. Three adjoining courtyards each bounded by one-and-a-half storey ranges to east of symmetrical neo-classical west front consisting of central carriage arch with bellcote over, flanked by blind pedimented aedicules, flanked by carriage arches to north and south yards with gables of east-west ranges projecting above top of wall. Pitched slate roofs, some artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered flat-capped chimneystacks, patent roof windows, ashlar limestone verges, uPVC rainwater goods. Unpainted roughcast walling to west front and east-west ranges to north and south of central courtyard, smooth-rendered plinths. Dressed ashlar limestone to carriage arches, aedicules, pilasters, quoins and copings. Uncoursed rubble limestone walling elsewhere. Square-headed window openings, limestone sills, flat brick arches to ground floor windows, hardwood casement windows. Round-headed carriage openings to each courtyard, prominent keystone with carved shell motif to central arch, tooled ashlar voussoirs, projecting square-moulded imposts. Segmental-headed former carriage arches now doors to ranges, tooled ashlar jambs and voussoirs, hardwood glazed door screens. Further yard to east with single-storey outbuildings to north-east. Five-bay two-storey former farm manager's house to east. Three-bay two-storey rubble masonry former granary to south-east, linked to south-east corner of main yard by rubble stone wall containing round-headed carriage-arch. Cut limestone water trough to south-east. Complex set to north of Markree Castle approached from south by lane with rubble stone boundary walls, surrounded by farmland.

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 Clooneenroe, 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_1105 (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 Clooneenroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Clooneenroe · An Cluainín Rua

Area

415,191 m² (41.52 ha, 102.6 acres)

Civil parish

Kilross, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Collooney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,188 people lived in 1,209 households in the Collooney electoral division. 58% of households owned their home. 65% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygrania, Knockrawer, Markree Demesne, Tully More

Placenames

Clooneenroe 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.