Cloonfree

194 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfree, from 56 m² to 132,645 m² (13.26 ha, 32.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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 Cloonfree 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.

• 10 Dec 2024Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the material change of use from an existing vernacular building last used as a school to a dwelling house to include renovation works and the construction of a new wastewater treatment system, together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460574

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain existing dwelling house as constructed and extended and Permission to connect to proposed tertiary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21716

• 30 Nov 2021N/a

  Retention Permission to retain existing dwelling house as constructed and extended and Permission to connect to proposed tertiary waste water treatment system and polishing filter together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21674

• 16 Nov 2021Refused

  Permission for development consisting of the change of use from a Gym associated with an existing dwelling house to a bedroom at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21648

• 8 Apr 2021N/a

  to retain works to existing dwelling to include: 1) First floor extension over existing ground floor; 2) Extension to rear of dwelling; 3) Partially constructed extension to rear of dwelling and permission to complete partially constructed extension to rear of dwelling together with all associated site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21173

• 17 Jul 2020N/a

  for the development which will consist of the change of use from a gym associated with an existing dwelling house to a bedroom at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20280

• 26 Jun 2020N/a

  the development will consist of the change of use from a Gym associated with an existing dwelling house to a bedcroom

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20228

• 22 Apr 2020Conditional

  Permission for the retention of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house as currently constructed together with the proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank with soak pit that services the existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and replacing same with a wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter in accordance with the current EPA Code of Practice, Wastewater Treatment Systems Servicing Single Dwelling Houses 2009 and ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20153

• 1 Apr 2020N/a

  of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house as currently constructed together with the proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank with soak pit that services the existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and replacing same with a wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter in accordance with the current EPA Code of Practice, Wastewater Treatment Systems Servicing Single Dwelling Houses 2009 and ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20135

• 20 Mar 2020N/a

  For the retention of existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house as currently constructed together with the proposed decommissioning of existing septic tank with soak pit that services the existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house and replacing same with a wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter in accordance with current EPA Code of Practise; Wastewater Treatment Systems Servicing Single Dwelling Houses 2009 and ancillary site works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 20122

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  to retain as constructed domestic steel shed at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 19556

• 4 Oct 2019Refused

  to retain extension to existing dwelling consisting of extension to rear at ground level and raising of roof to create first floor rooms and all ancillary site works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19513

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 Cloonfree.

Recorded monuments

• RO029-004 Crannog
  Description

  Depicted as a small island (diam. c. 10m) on the 1837 of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the E shore of the small Cloonsreane Lough (max. dims c. 180m E-W; c. 120m N-S). It is not visible at ground level in a densely overgrown area. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-005 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Just off the crest of a low E-W ridge, on the S-facing slope. Oval, grass-covered area (dims. 85m NE-SW; 70m NW-SE) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 4-5.2m; in. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1.7m) and hedge NE-SW which is reduced to a grass and scrub-covered scarp (H 0.7m at N to 1.9m at NW) elsewhere. It is surrounded by a fosse (Wth of top 5.2-6.7m; Wth of base 2.5-2.7m; D 0.4-1.1m), and there is an outer field bank NE-SE. There is a modern entrance (Wth 8m) at SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 61.7m E-W; 58.6m N-S) used as an orchard/haggard and defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-4.5m; int. H. 0.2m at W to 1.1m at N; ext. H 0.7m at S to 1.1m at N). There is no visible fosse, but there is a field drain (Wth of top 2-3m; D 0.9-1.2m) SE-S-NW. There is a modern entrance (Wth 6m) at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-007 Crannog
  Description

  Marked as a small island (diam. c. 10m) off the W coast of a larger island (diam. c. 100m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The larger island is now a promontory projecting W into the W end of Cloonfree Lough (dims. c. 1 km E-W; c. 200m N-S at E to c. 500m N-S at W), absorbing the location of the original feature which is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the crest of a gentle NE-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 51.3m N-S; 45.9m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.7-3.7m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 1-1.2m) and outer fosse (Wth of top 4-5.6m; Wth of base 1.6-2m; D 0.5-0.9m). There is a modern entrance at S, but the original entrance is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-009 Moated site
  Description

  Just off the crest of a gentle SE-facing slope. This is O'Conor's house at Clonfree described in two 14th century Gaelic poems (Quiggin 1913; McKenna 1923) and described in the Annals as the 'square fort' of Cloonfree in 1306 (Graham 1988, 31; Doran 2005, 387-8). The poems provide a detailed description of its defences, fortified entrance, a hall, and other houses (Finan and O'Conor 2002; 2003). Scrub-covered rectangular area (dims. 36.1m E-W; 29.4m N-S) defined by overgrown, flat-topped earthen banks (Wth of top 1.4-2.1m; Wth of base 4.1-5.1m; int. H 0.7-1m; ext. H 1.8-2.3m), flat-bottomed moats (Wth of top 6.2-8m; Wth of base 4-5m; ext. D 1.3-1.5m) and outer overgrown flat-topped earthen banks (Wth of top 1-3m; Wth of base 3.6-5.9m; ext. H 0.6-1.4m) but the outer bank at E has been removed (max. ext. dims. c. 61m E-W; 54.8m N-S). The entrance is towards the W end of the S side and consists of gaps in the inner (Wth 2.1m) and outer (Wth 2.8m) banks, and there are traces of stone facing on the inner edge of the inner bank near the SE angle. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 29th September, 2010

• RO029-010 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature (diam. c. 10m), and situated on the N shore at the E end of Cloonfree Lough. This is an overgrown copse (diam. 20m) which may have been a landscape feature associated with Cloonfree House, c. 70m to the NW. 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 Cloonfree.

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 Cloonfree, 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 Cloonfree.

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.

• Cloonfree, Strokestown7 sales

Name

Cloonfree · Cluain Fraoigh

Area

3,217,376 m² (321.74 ha, 795.03 acres)

Civil parish

Cloonfinlough, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Annaghmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

304 people lived in 124 households in the Annaghmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardakillin, Bunnamucka, Cloonfinlough, Cloonrane, Cloonslanor, Cloonsreane, Falsk, Lisnahirka, Lisroyne, Nadnaveagh

Placenames

Cloonfree 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.