Clooneen

90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 265 m² to 133,861 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Clooneen 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 Jun 2023Conditional

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, onsite suitable treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360053

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling house and out houses and to construct a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage for domestic use, sewage treatment system with percolation area and attached ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19151

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the proposed construction of a Bungalow Type Dwelling House, Detached Garage, Entrance, Boundary Fence/Wall, Proprietary Wastewater Treatment System with Percolation Area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1866

• 15 Jan 2018Conditional

  renovate an existing single storey dwelling house, the works involve new single storey side extensions to the South East and West elevations, decommission of existing septic tank and percolation and construction of a new septic tank and percolation area within the proposed site boundaries and attached ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 189

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 Clooneen.

Recorded monuments

• LF006-069 Barrow - mound barrow
  Description

  On a low rise. Depicted as a small circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The depiction of the site on the 1913 ed. suggests that it may have been a small mound, possibly a burial mound. The site has been levelled and is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF007-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low knoll in rolling pasture. A raised almost circular area (25m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed at ENE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.3m; H 0.35m) and elsewhere by a scarp (H 0.85-1.25m). There is no trace of a fosse. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded that the original entrance was at SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1935–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Cast-iron post box, c. 1940, with ‘P&T’ cipher in raised Gaelic script to the base and a round-headed top with ‘Letters Only’ in raised lettering. Set into rendered gate pier outside of former rural school (not in survey). Located to the north of Granard. Still in use.

• Clooneen Mill, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former corn mill complex, built c. 1800, comprising three ranges of buildings. Now largely ruinous and partially in use as domestic outbuildings. Multiple-bay single- and two-storey range to northeast with pitched corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings with timber and corrugated-metal fittings, and elliptical-arched opening to southeast end. Multiple-bay single-storey range to the southeast having pitched slate roof with metal flue, partially rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Multiple-bay two-storey building to the northwest with half-hipped slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Set with gable ends of southeast and the northwest ranges facing road, bounded by recent rubble stone wall to roadside. Located to the north of Granard.

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 Clooneen, about 1 in 20 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

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

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 Clooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Clooneen · An Cluainín

Area

1,731,081 m² (173.11 ha, 427.76 acres)

Civil parish

Columbkille, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Creevy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

326 people lived in 116 households in the Creevy electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnagarron, Cartronfree (Co. Cavan), Cloghchurnel, Culleenmore, Dalystown, Druminacrehir, Mullinroe

Placenames

Clooneen 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.