Cloonturk

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonturk, from 326 m² to 333,331 m² (33.33 ha, 82.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Cloonturk 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.

• 11 Dec 2024N/a

  the proposed construction of a residential development of 9 No. four bedroom two storey type dwelling houses, new entrance, internal access road & footpaths, green open space, boundary fences/walls, proposed connection into the existing wastewater treatment unit & percolation area servicing the adjoining residential development known as “The Rocks” and all ancillary works

  Permission, 9 homes · Longford County Council, 2460296

• 14 Aug 2023N/a

  proposed construction of a residential development of 9 no. four bedroom two storey type dwelling houses, new entrance, internal access road & footpaths, green open space, boundary fences/walls, proposed connection into the existing wastewater treatment unit & percolation area servicing the adjoining residential development known as “The Rocks” and all ancillary works

  Permission, 9 homes · Longford County Council, 2360107

• 15 Jun 2023Conditional

  permission for 1. Existing site entrance arrangement including the entrance to the public road (R397) 2. Existing dwelling house as constructed 3. Site perimeter boundaries and all site development works associated with this development

  Retention · Longford County Council, 2360054

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of 2 no. single storey extensions and a single storey attached garage to rear of existing single storey type dwelling house together with the proposed removal of the existing roof structure of the existing single storey type dwelling house and the proposed construction of a new roof over same and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20261

• 8 Oct 2020Refused

  proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable on site wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20228

• 21 Sept 2017Refused

  a dwelling and wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, with entrance from public road

  Outline permission · Longford County Council, 17244

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  change of dwelling house type previously granted planning permission Ref. No's: PL07/565 and PL12/240 along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17141

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Royal Canal 002103

Recorded monuments

• LF013-106 Structure - peatland
  Description

  Worked wood noted during field survey in 1989 (pers. comm. B. Raftery). The evidence is insufficient to warrant acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Cloonturk Bridge, bridge, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch humpbacked canal accommodation bridge carrying road over Royal Canal (Longford Branch), built c. 1829. Round/elliptical-headed arch with dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Dressed limestone spandrel walls with cut limestone string course at road/deck level. Dressed ashlar limestone parapets with curving ends terminated in dressed ashlar limestone piers (on square-plan). Dressed ashlar limestone coping over parapet walls. Rubble stone construction to inner faces of parapet walls, partially rendered. Towpath to west bank of canal. Dressed limestone retaining walls to canal banks (east and west). Located to the southwest of Longford Town.

• Bridge, aqueduct, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch canal bridge/aqueduct carrying Royal Canal (Longford Branch) over a small unnamed stream/former millrace, built c. 1829. Canal now dry and in use as a footpath/road for farm access. Elliptical-headed arch with stepped dressed ashlar limestone voussoirs and dressed limestone masonry to barrel. Squared and coursed limestone rubble spandrel walls and abutments. Wing walls curve outwards to form retaining wall to embankment. Modern timber fences to parapets. Located to the southwest of Longford Town.

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 Cloonturk, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonturk · Cluain Toirc

Area

1,109,867 m² (110.99 ha, 274.25 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacormick, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Longford Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,685 people lived in 1,964 households in the Longford Rural electoral division. 51% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooneeny, Craane, Dunbeggan, Gowlan, Gragh, Knockanboy, Stonepark

Placenames

Cloonturk 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.