Cloonerkaun

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonerkaun, from 61 m² to 342,070 m² (34.21 ha, 84.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Cloonerkaun 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.

• 14 Oct 2025Conditional

  Permission for development consisting of the construction of a galvanised steel truss weather radar tower with a technical equipment room and a radome located at the top and an equipment room located at the base. The structure will measure a total of 36m in height and 8m in diameter and will be located on a hardcore platform. The structure will be accessed via a new access road off the existing forest haul road which will be upgraded to a width of 3.8m where required. The development will also consist of the installation of a solar photovoltaic (PV) array consisting of 24 solar panels on a fixed ground-mounted frame, boundary treatment to define the site and secure the weather radar and all associated site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560486

• 13 Mar 2017Conditional

  For 1 No. forest road access onto the Local Road with associated turning head and security barrier at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 17102

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 Cloonerkaun.

Recorded monuments

• RO032-051 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as 'Standing stone', and situated close to the summit of the ENE-WSW Slieve Dart ridge. Described as an upright stone (H c. 1.2m) (OS Name Book), there is no visible remains of the stone within a coniferous forest. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-069 Burnt mound
  Description

  On a W-facing slope close to the summit of the ENE-WSW Slieve Dart ridge. An area of broken and burnt stone (diam. c. 5m) visible in a field after reclaimation. An oak timber (L 8.5m; Wth c. 1m) with a narrow channel (Wth c. 0.2m; D c. 0.2m) cut in one surface was found c. 50m to the SW. 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 Cloonerkaun.

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 Cloonerkaun, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonerkaun

Area

1,654,183 m² (165.42 ha, 408.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,185 people lived in 460 households in the Kiltullagh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonfad East, Derrylahan, Drumbane (Co. Galway), Flaskagh Beg (Co. Galway), Meeltraun (Denis Kelly), Meeltraun (O'Flyn)

Placenames

Cloonerkaun 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.