Clooniher

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooniher, from 1,993 m² to 314,853 m² (31.49 ha, 77.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Clooniher 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.

• 18 Nov 2020Refused

  proposed replacement of an existing cottage type dwelling, septic tank & soak pit with a proposed bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, wastewater treatment system with suitable polishing filter together with upgrading existing entrance/access road to service the proposed replacement dwelling & all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 20279

• 30 Apr 2020Conditional

  the construction of 1 no. pump house building; 1 no. dissolved air flotation (DAF) building extension; 7 no. above ground tanks; 2 no. above ground kiosks; 2 no. below ground tanks; and all associated ancillary development works, including the installation of 1 no. davit crane, and stairs and platform between chemical tanks, and temporary development works. A Nature Impact Statement has been prepared in respect of this planning application - Covid 19(b)

  Permission · Longford County Council, 20102

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  construction of additional water treatment facilities on the existing Lough Forbes WTP site and on the site to the north west of this WTP site. These facilities will operate in conjunction with the existing WTP and are considered as an extension of the plant. The development will comprise the following:3 Nr Inlet Contact Tanks = 4.5m (h = height); Chemical Storage Tanks: 2 Nr @ = 4.5m (h), 4 Nr @ = 2.9m (h) and 2 Nr @ = 2.7m (h); Main Treatment Building: = 9m (h); Pipework Gallery: = 7m(h); 4 Nr Filters: = 5.5m (h); Pump House: = 4.7m (h); Contact/Clearwater Tank (Partially below ground): = 5.2m (h); Backwash Tank (Partially below ground) = 5.2m (deep); Used Washwater Tank (Partially below ground) = 5.2m (deep); Washwater Clarifier = 6.2m (h). The development will also include on-site roadways, parking and hardstanding areas, landscaping, external lighting, security fencing, drainage and all associated ancillary works and infrastructure and other enabling civil works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for the proposed development given its proximity to designated Lough Forbes Complex SAC (Site Code: 001818) and Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA (Site Code 004104) and the potential for significant effects

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17308

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: Lough Forbes Complex SAC 001818
• Special Protection Area: Ballykenny-Fisherstown Bog SPA 004101
• Natural Heritage Area: Rinn River NHA 000691
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Forbes Complex 001818

Recorded monuments

• LF008-044 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on reclaimed grassland 270m ENE of the shoreline of Lough Forbes. Cropmark of circular shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 46m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery and various OSI aerial images. The outline of the monument is best preserved on E side where traces of a bank with external fosse are visible. See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 18/09/2019 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ross Waters Date of upload: 5 February 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooniher.

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 Clooniher, about 1 in 20 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 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 Clooniher.

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 Clooniher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Clooniher · Cluain Ithir

Area

1,464,246 m² (146.42 ha, 361.82 acres)

Civil parish

Mohill, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Newtown Forbes, the unit of the census

Census 2022

985 people lived in 411 households in the Newtown Forbes electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghcooleen, Cloonageeher, Cloonart South, Currygranny, Kilmacannon, Lissagernal

Placenames

Clooniher 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.