Cloonradoon

114 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonradoon, from 34 m² to 331,979 m² (33.2 ha, 82.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• C5Leisure Tourism / Amenity (Tourism and related)
  Roscommon County Development Plan 2022-2028, Roscommon · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloonradoon in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Cloonradoon.

Recorded monuments

• RO023-172001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a level landscape. A castle of O'Conor Roe existed at Strokestown, which was called Beal Aith na mBuille - the mouth of the ford of the strokes (battle), although it can be interpreted as the town of the mills (Donlon 1990; Kelly 2006). A battle was fought here amongst the MacBrannan in 1411 (ALC, vol. 2, 139), after which O'Conor Roe took possession of the area (Lennon 2009, 8). The castle was destroyed by Mac Diarmada in 1552 (ALC vol. 2, 361). The castle of Bealnemully was granted to Teige Oge O'Conor Roe in 1585 (Freeman 1936, 162), but in 1593 ‘a little stone fortress called Balllinemullin’ was granted to Turlogh Byrne after the attainder of Teige Oge (Nicholls 1994, vol. 3, 223, No. 1593). In 1683 Bealnemully was described as a strong spring running off to the SW with a stone fort and a castle nearby. The bawn and flankers were then surviving (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 68-9). By the 1640s the land was mortgaged to Lucas Dillon of Lough Glinn (RO020-003----), who sold the lands in 1662 to Nicholas Mahon. The spring is just W of Strokestown Park House (RO023-172002-) which is thought to occupy the site of the castle. A wall in the basement (T c. 3m) is thought to be part of it. Capt. Nicholas Mahon, and his son John, built a house (RO023-172002-) on the site which may have been completed by 1696 and was commemorated in a date stone (Breffny and ffolliott 1975, 102-5). In the 1730s the present house was built by Thomas Mahon to a design by Richard Castle on Palladian principles, and is a rectangular W-facing seven bay, three storey house over a basement which may be built around the earlier core. Two wings or pavilions of two storeys and four bays to the NW and SW of the house are connected to the house by curving walls with niches, that to the N being the kitchens, that to the S being stables with a groin-vaulted roof supported by a single line of Doric columns. The house was altered in the early 19th century when Lord Hartland added a four column ionic portico entrance; he also re-designed the parkland and laid out the town of Strokestown in a grand manner. The house continued to be occupied by members of the Packenham Mahon family until 1981, and is now the Irish Famine Museum. (Dodd 1988; Bence-Jones 1988, 267) For the Famine Museum see this web-page accessed on 21/07/2015 http://www.strokestownpark.ie/famine-museum Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 May 2017

• RO023-172002 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  On a level landscape. An castle (RO028-172001-) of O'Conor Roe existed at Strokestown, and in 1683 the bawn and flankers survived, according to a contemporary account (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 68-9). The location may have been where Strokestown Park House is now and a wall in the basement (T c. 3m) is thought to be part of it. Capt. Nicholas Mahon, and his son John, built a house on the site which may have been completed by 1696 and was commemorated in a date stone (Breffny and ffolliott 1975, 102-5). In the 1730s the present house was built by Thomas Mahon to a design by Richard Castle on Palladian principles, and is a rectangular W-facing seven bay, three storey house over a basement which may be built around the earlier core. Two wings or pavillions of two storeys and four bays to the NW and SW of the house are connected to the house by curving walls with niches, that to the N being the kitchens, that to the S being stables with a groin-vaulted roof supported by a single line of Doric columns. The house was altered in the early 19th century when Lord Hartland added a four column ionic portico entrance; he also re-designed the parkland and laid out the town of Strokestown in a grand manner. The house continued to be occupied by members of the Packenham Mahon family until 1981, and is now the Irish Famine Museum. The mausoleum of the Mahon family (RO029-024----) is c. 220m to the SSW. (Dodd 1988; Bence-Jones 1978, 267; Lennon, M 2013) For the Famine Museum see this web-page accessed on 21/07/2015 http://www.strokestownpark.ie/famine-museum Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 21 July 2015

• RO029-029001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a level landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 54.5.m E-W; 46.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.9-9.8m; int. H 0.8m at S to 2m at N; ext. H 1.8m at S to 2.8m at N) with some bushes separated by a rounded fosse (Wth of top 6.3m at S to 8.2m at N; Wth of base 1.8-2m; D 1-1.2m) from an outer bank (Wth 3.6-5m; H 0.2m), which only survives NE-S-WSW (max. surviving dims c. 78m E-W; c. 75m N-S). There is a causeway but no entrance gap at WSW, and the original entrance (Wth 2.3m) is in the inner bank at NE. There is a small enclosure (RO029-029002-) at the centre (int. dims 2.6m E-W; 1.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) with intermittently visible facing-stones which is within a second enclosure (RO029-029006-) (int. dims 10.7m E-W; 9.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.3m; H 0.2m) with facing-stones. Neither enclosure has an entrance. Inside the rath bank at SE is an oval mound (RO029-029003-) (dims 12m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.5-1m) and there is a circular mound (RO029-029004-) (diam. 7m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.4-0.8m) inside the rath bank at NW. The internal features are probably ornamental and related to Strokestown House, which is c. 1 km to the WNW. The rath is surrounded by some pits (RO029-029005-). See the attached aerial view taken from the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-029002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a level landscape. There is an enclosure at the centre of rath (RO029-029001-) (int. dims 2.6m E-W; 1.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.2m) with intermittently visible facing-stones which is within a concentric enclosure (RO029-029006-). Neither enclosure has an entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-029003 Mound
  Description

  On a level landscape. Inside the bank of rath (RO029-029001-) at SE is an oval mound (dims 12m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.5-1m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-029004 Mound
  Description

  On a level landscape. Inside the bank of rath (RO029-029001-) at NW there is a circular mound (diam. 7m E-W; 6m N-S; H 0.4-0.8m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-029005 Pitfield
  Description

  On a level landscape. There is no visible evidence of pits at this location near rath (RO029-029001-) but a Lidar image (Davis 2015, 179, No. 68: 4) shows about 20 pit, largely aligned NW-SE in an area of about 10 acres (c. 4 ah.) to the E and W of the rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 4 February 2016

• RO029-029006 Enclosure
  Description

  On a level landscape. There is an enclosure (RO029-029002-) at the centre of rath (RO029-029001-) which is within a concentric enclosure (int. dims 10.7m E-W; 9.4m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2-2.3m; H 0.2m) with facing-stones. Neither enclosure has an entrance. The internal features of rath (RO029-029001-) are probably ornamental and related to Strokestown House, which is c. 1 km to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO029-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in a low-lying level landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 43.7m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.4-6.4m; int. H 0.8-1m; ext. H 0.4-1.4m) with an outer fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.9m) W-N-E, and a slight outer bank (Wth 3.4m; ext. H 0.2m) surviving W-NW. The S part of the monument has been quarried. Rath (RO029-031----) is c. 150m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Strokestown Park House, country house, 1720–1740 · National interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay three-storey over basement Palladian house, modified c.1730 to a design by Richard Castle and masking an earlier structure completed in 1696, with curved curtain walls linking it to flanking pavilions with four-bay principal façades. House refaced and portico added c. 1820. Galleried kitchen to north wing and vaulted stables to south. Pedimented archways to outer walls extending from pavilions give access to stable complex and kitchen yards. Hipped slate roofs to house and pavilions with rendered chimneystacks to house hidden by parapet with balustrade to outer bays and panel over centre. Ruled-and-lined render to house with string courses and giant order pilasters. Roughcast-rendered walls to pavilions with cut limestone cornices to parapets. Niches flanked by oculus windows to upper part of curtain walls with tooled stone surrounds. Timber sash windows throughout with tooled limestone architraves to house. Main entrance set within Ionic portico and is approached by flight of limestone steps. Timber panelled door recessed in tooled stone doorcase with decorative brackets and surmounted by ornate spoked fanlight and flanked by traceried sidelights. Entrances through curtain walls have tooled stone block-and-start surrounds with keystones and pediments. Brick tunnel links the inner stable yard to the kitchen yard with two-storey roughcast-rendered outbuildings. Decorative plasterwork to interior. House set within demesne containing stable complex, walled gardens, mausoleum, bridge, gates and lodge.

• Strokestown Park House, stables, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of outbuildings and stables comprising five ranges of two-storey and single-storey structures, built c.1730 to south of Strokestown Park, now in use as museum and restaurant. Pitched and lean-to slate roofs with rendered and stone chimneystacks, roughcast render and random coursed stone walls. Varied openings with timber sash and casement windows. Square, segmental and round-headed entrance openings with replacement doors. Two round-headed arches give access to stable yard, with finely-tooled limestone surrounds, pedimented carriage arch to inner yard flanked by niches.

• Strokestown Park House, walled garden, 1720–1740 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ornamental walled garden, laid out c.1730, with walled vegetable garden to south and mausoleum to west. Brick and random coursed rubble walls to garden, accessed through cut stone gate piers, square-headed openings with limestone block-and-start surround and segmental-headed brick-arched openings with timber battened doors. Timber gazebo with hexagonal plan with slate roof with pineapple finial. Sundial on tooled limestone pedestal and man-made pond. Vegetable garden with two-storey viewing tower to south-west corner with slate roof, stone walls, Venetian window and entrance accessed by flight of steps, single-storey garden building with glass house to south and outbuilding with slate lean-to roof to west wall. Mausoleum built within old church, dating to 1667, to west of garden.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonradoon

Area

1,703,657 m² (170.37 ha, 420.98 acres)

Civil parish

Bumlin, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Strokestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Strokestown electoral division: 1,232 people in 529 households; 63% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanamullia, Bumlin, Cloonrabrackan, Farnbeg, Kilmore, Lisroyne, Newtown, Pollymount, Scramoge, Vesnoy

Placenames

Cloonradoon 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.