Cloonfower
Townland in the civil parish of Termonbarry, barony of Ballintober North, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Cluain Fobhair
Parcel 676883
- Area
- 8,668 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Cloonfower
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 127.9 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 6,807 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfower, from 548 m² to 99,393 m² (9.94 ha, 24.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonfower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 Nov 2025Conditional
Permission for the construction of a new astro turf playing pitch with associated fencing, together with all other ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560522
1 Aug 2019Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a new private dwelling, detached garage, a new entrance, a new proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19390
4 Apr 2019Conditional
for demolition of existing dwelling house, construction of replacement dwelling house with advanced treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19172
18 Dec 2018Refused
the construction of a new private dwelling, detached garage, a new entrance, a new proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18624
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonfower.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonfower.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonfower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonfower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonfower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonfower · Cluain Fobhair
- Area
- 1,278,674 m² (127.87 ha, 315.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Termonbarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober North
- Electoral division
- Roosky, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Roosky electoral division: 818 people in 301 households; 69% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagrine, Cloonfad, Cloonshannagh, Cuilbeg, Derrymoylin, Kilbarry
- Placenames
- Cloonfower 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.