Cloonfinnan

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfinnan, from 109 m² to 92,091 m² (9.21 ha, 22.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Cloonfinnan 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 Cloonfinnan 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 the townland of Cloonfinnan.

Recorded monuments

• LE032-086 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a low drumlin. This is an overgrown rectangular chamber (dims c. 3m N-S; 1-1.3m E-W) consisting of two damaged portal-stones (H 1.2m; 1.7m) and a sillstone at S, with two sidestones, and a backstone which has fallen inwards. The roofstone (dims c. 2.8m x c. 1.9m; T 0.3-0.5m) rests on the portal-stones. There is no evidence of a cairn. (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 195; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 75-6) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 Amended: 6 December, 2019 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE032-111 Sweathouse
  Description

  Reported (4-10-2021) by Mr Aidan Harte, Project Co-ordinator, Leitrim Sweathouse Project. Indicated, but not named, on the OS 25-inch map (1906) where it is shown located roughly midway between a dwelling c. 100m to the ESE and another c. 170m to the WNW. Mentioned four times in the School’s Manuscript Collection as having been operated by the late Mr. Patrick Faughnan and recorded as being in disrepair by the 1930s. On the E-facing slope of a low hill in woodland. Survives as a sub-circular, roofless chamber with an entrance opening to N. A Portal Tomb (LE032-086----) stands c. 25m to the SSW. Reference: Schools Manuscripts Collection: Annaduff N.S. - Folklore – A Story, Pat Reynolds Culmore, Dromod. See attached image: LE032-111----_1 View of sweathouse from north on 22-5-2021 (photo by David Mahon) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 3 November 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonfinnan.

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 Cloonfinnan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonfinnan.

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 Cloonfinnan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cloonfinnan · Cluain Fionnáin

Area

915,455 m² (91.55 ha, 226.21 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Mohill

Electoral division

Drumdoo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

356 people lived in 116 households in the Drumdoo electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunkilleen, Cloonbo, Cloonclivvy, Corduff, Esker North, Esker South, Killamaun

Placenames

Cloonfinnan 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.