Clooncraff

297 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncraff, from 23 m² to 88,700 m² (8.87 ha, 21.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clooncraff 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.

• 8 May 2025Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a dwelling-house and domestic garage and install a waste water treatment system and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560211

• 27 Nov 2024Conditional

  Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  for retention of a 19 sq. m garage and a 61sq.m single storey fuel store at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20382

• 20 Dec 2019Conditional

  permission for the construction of a 30 sq.m. single storey extension to the side of existing dwelling including all ancillary site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19665

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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

• RO040-038 Sweathouse
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map with no houses in the vicinity, and situated in a flat, low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in a young coniferous forest. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO040-059 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At the crest of the S-facing slope of a slight E-W ridge, and known locally at one time as Cranny Cealtra. Subrectangular grass and scrub-covered cairn (dims 7m N-S; 5.6m; H 0.3-0.5m) with intermittently visible kerbstones and two whitethorn bushes on the perimeter. It was investigated in 1912 by a local priest looking for treasure when a skeleton was discovered between an inner and outer line of kerbstones (Fannon 1994; Ryan 1997, 224). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO040-060001 Earthwork
  Description

  On a slight rise in a level landscape c. 120m from the N bank of the W-E Hind River. Known locally as Crocan Cill Barra and thought to have been a burial ground of Cloonsellan Abbey (RO042-011----) c. 750m to the SW. It is thought to have been a mound which was largely removed c. 1830. No feature is visible at ground level in rough pasture. (Ryan 1997, 224) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO040-060002 Burial
  Description

  On a slight rise in a level landscape c. 120m from the N bank of the W-E Hind River. Known locally as Crocan Cill Barra and thought to have been a burial ground of Cloonsellan Abbey (RO042-011----) c. 750m to the SW. It is thought to have been a mound which was largely removed c. 1830. No feature is visible at ground level in rough pasture. (Ryan 1997, 224) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Clooncraff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Clooncraff · Cluain Creamha

Area

3,245,404 m² (324.54 ha, 801.96 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Mote, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mote electoral division: 1,009 people in 345 households; 89% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghmagree, Carrowmore, Clooncah, Cloonconra, Cloonlarge, Cloonmore, Cloonsellan, Doogarymore, Fearagh, Killeenboy, Kilteevan

Placenames

Clooncraff 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.