Cloonyquin

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonyquin, from 28 m² to 191,142 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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 Cloonyquin 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.

• 9 Sept 2020Conditional

  to demolish an existing dwelling house, to construct a new dwelling house, install a waste water treatment unit with soil polishing filter and to construct all ancillary site works to facilitate same at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20351

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 Cloonyquin.

Recorded monuments

• RO022-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Visible as a feature on aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/28; OS 4/2049), and situated on a slight N-facing slope. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 20m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 3m; int. D 0.5m; ext. D 0.2m) W-NNW, and a scarp (H 0.3m) NNW-N. It is truncated by a N-S field bank at E and the WNW-ESE field bank that formed the N side of an avenue from Cloonyquin House c. 1km to the WNW at S. It does not survive beyond these features, but what may be the S loop of the perimeter can be seen S of the avenue (diam. c. 55m N-S) on aerial photograph (ACAP: V206/28). Rath (RO022-065001-) is c. 170m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-065001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. Oval platform (28.5m N-S; 23m E-W) sloping from the centre down to the E (H of slope 2m) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m at E to 2.2m at S) with some bushes. There is no visible bank or fosse, but the ramp entrance (Wth 3.2m) is at SW. A rectangular house site (RO022-065002-) (ext. dims 12.5m N-S; 5.2m E-W) divided into two rooms is visible as wall-footings (Wth 0.65-1m) on the perimeter at NW. There are quarry trenches (Wth 2.4-3m; D 0.3m) outside the E and S walls of the house. Rath (RO022-064----) is c. 170m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-065002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  On a rise in an undulating landscape. A rectangular house site (ext. dims 12.5m N-S; 5.2m E-W) divided into two rooms is visible as wall-footings (Wth 0.65-1m) on the perimeter of rath (RO022-065001-) at NW. There are quarry trenches (Wth 2.4-3m; D 0.3m) outside the E and S walls of the house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-082 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in an undulating landscape. Described as a circular area (int. diam. c. 32m) defined by the remains of a wall (Wth 2.8m) (Herity 1987a, 137). It is visible now as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m E-W; 28.6m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at S to 1.1m at N). Cashel (RO022-083001-) is c. 150m to the N, and pitfield (RO022-143----) is c. 100m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-083001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hillock in an undulating landscape. Described as a circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) defined by the remains of a wall (Wth 2.5m) with a possible entrance at SE (Herity 1987a, 137). It is now visible as a circular grass-covered and domed area (diam. 29m E-W; 27m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at W to 1.4m at S) E-S-NW, merging into the steep slope elsewhere. A band of reeds (Wth c. 4- 5m) outside the scarp around the summit indicates a fosse. There is a record of a cairn (RO022-083002-) just to the E. Cashel (RO022-082----) is c. 150m to the S and cairn (RO022-084001-) is c. 170m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-083002 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  Gannon (1972) describes a cairn with a hollow at the centre, which she thinks is probably natural, as it is 8m E of the rath (RO022-083001-). It is not mentioned by Herity (1987a, 137) and may have been a clearance cairn, but it is no longer present. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-084001 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  Situated on a grass-covered oval hillock (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW; H c. 5m) with some trees in an undulating landscape. Circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 8.5m N-S; 7.5m E-W; H 0.5-0.7m). The base of the hillock is surrounded by a band of lush vegetation (Wth 3-5m) suggesting it may have been enclosed (RO022-084003-). Cashel (RO022-083001-) is c. 170m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-084003 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1927 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as an oval hachured feature (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 35m NE-SW) with trees, and located on an oval hillock (dims c. 60m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW; H c. 5m) in a low-lying position on an undulating landscape. A band of lush vegetation (Wth 3-5m) all around the base of the hillock which has the cairn (RO022-084001-) indicates the fosse of an enclosure. It may have been a tree-ring and Cloonyquin House is c. 600m to the NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO022-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying position on an undulating landscape. Described as a subcircular area (dims. 32m N-S; 27.5m E-W) defined by a fosse and outer earthen bank which had an entrance at E (Gannon 1972). It is now visible as a circular platform (diam. c. 32m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.5-1m N-W to 1.6m at S). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Saint Catherine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1860, with entrance porch and sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roof with bellcote to east gable end, stone crosses over gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut limestone walls with limestone quoins. Lancet windows with tooled chamfered surrounds and decorative stained glass windows. Roundel to sacristy and stained glass rose window to chancel. Segmental-headed door openings to entrance porch and pointed-arch door openings to transepts. All with timber battened double doors and chamfered limestone surrounds. Shrine to front site. Site enclosed by simple wrought-iron gates flanked by limestone piers and boundary wall. Located on roadside next to national school.

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

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Cloonyquin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cloonyquin · Cluain Uí Choinn

Area

2,179,853 m² (217.99 ha, 538.65 acres)

Civil parish

Elphin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cloonyquin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boyanagh, Cammoge, Cloonmahaan, Corracreigh, Flaskagh Beg, Flaskagh More, Killynagh More, Ross More West, Tullintuppeen

Placenames

Cloonyquin 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.