Cloghan

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghan, from 539 m² to 284,554 m² (28.46 ha, 70.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Cloghan 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.

• 7 Oct 2024Conditional

  Permission for development to upgrade to the existing wastewater treatment system on site and all ancillary development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460472

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Four Roads Turlough SAC 001637
• Special Protection Area: Four Roads Turlough SPA 004140
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Four Roads Turlough 001637

Recorded monuments

• RO044-055001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  It was probably built by the Kellys in the 16th century. Myles Cavanagh had a lease on it in 1623 (Cronin 1980, 115), but it was owned by Justice James Donnellan in 1641 along with 162 acres at Cloghankeeny also known as Carrowncaslane (Simington 1949, 111). The Donnellans were connected with the Clanrickard Burkes (Beirne 1997c) and was president of the high court that tried many of the leaders of the 1641 rebellion in 1652 (Ellis 1975, 54-5). Situated on a very slight W-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Rectangular structure (ext. dims 11.8m NW-SE; 9.2m NE-SW) surviving partly to three floors with good quoins and a base batter. A destroyed doorway towards the S end of the SE wall leads to a destroyed lobby with a vaulted guardroom (int. dims 2.6m NE-SW; 1.8m NW-SE; H 2.15m) to the N containing a light and a double gun-loop of dressed stone. The lobby leads through a destroyed doorway (Wth 1.2m; H 2.2m) to the ground floor which has a window embrasure on the SW wall, an embrasure with a gun-loop on the NW wall and a destroyed wall on the NE side. S of the entrance lobby a destroyed spiral stairs with lights and gun-loops gives access to at least two upper floors. There is no evidence of a barrel vault, but a quoinstone at the S angle has a sheela-na-gig (RO044-055002-) at the second floor level. See the attached general view from the S (001) and of the double gun-loop (002) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 3 December 2018

• RO044-055002 Sheela-na-gig
  Description

  A quoinstone (dims c. 0.6m x c. 0.3m) at the S angle of tower house (RO044-055001-) and at the second floor level has a sheela-na-gig in relief with slightly flexed legs (Andersen 1977, 147, No. 69; Siggins 1990, 45; Freitag 2004, 128). See the attached images See attached screenshot (RO044-055002-_01/) of 3D model of Sheela-na-gig created by Digital Heritage Age. 3D model can be accessed on the Sketchfab website at: https://skfb.ly/6sWQt Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO044-123 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a D-shaped wood, and situated on a gentle S and W-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. Subrectangular or D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 59m E-W; 48m N-S) planted with deciduous trees, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4m; int. H 0.1-0.35m; ext. H 0.6-1m) on all sides except the S where it is reduced to a scarp (H 1m). There is no visible fosse, but there are entrance gaps at ESE (Wth 4m) and SSE (Wth 4m). It might be a tree-ring. 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 Cloghan.

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 Cloghan, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1345 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cloghan

Area

1,557,600 m² (155.76 ha, 384.89 acres)

Civil parish

Taghboy, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone North

Electoral division

Taghboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

535 people lived in 177 households in the Taghboy electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carricknagat, Carroward, Carrownurlar, Cloonlaughnan, Cuilnakeava, Curraghadoon, Jamestown, Taghboy

Placenames

Cloghan 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.