Cloongowna

179 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloongowna, from 3 m² to 444,231 m² (44.42 ha, 109.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Cloongowna 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.

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to construct changes to the internal layouts of House Types C and C1, currently 4 bedroom units, proposing a change to 3 bedroom units – House numbers 67 & 68 and 41 to 62 inclusive at Páirc Cluain Ghamhna, previously granted permission under PD/15/393 & PD/20/3012 at this site at

  Permission, 24 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2460520

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  Permission to refurbish and extend existing dwelling, construct domestic garage, decommission existing septic tank and percolation area, construct waste water treatment system and percolation area, associated site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23178

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  Permission to renovate and extend existing dwelling, demolish existing sheds and construct garage, new wastewater treatment system and percolating area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22176

• 3 Mar 2022N/a

  Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22122

• 16 Jun 2021Conditional

  retention permission for single storey extension to dwelling house at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21338

• 22 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct two storey dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21201

• 4 Mar 2021Refused

  for construction of two number detached dwellings together with ancillary services and all associated site works ( a Natura Impact Statement(NIS) has been prepared and submitted in respect of the application) at

  Permission, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 21123

• 25 Feb 2021N/a

  construction of two number detached dwellings together with ancillary services and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21108

• 10 Feb 2021N/a

  for proposed development hich includes the construction of two number detached dwellings together with ancillary services and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2179

• 4 May 2020N/a

  for the construction of two number detached dwellings together with ancillary services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2087

• 10 Apr 2019Conditional

  to carry out the following works to existing dwelling house (i) construct a rear extension (ii) new ground and first floor windows to south east elevation at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19184

• 15 Jan 2019Conditional

  permission to construct a front and side extension onto existing dwelling house including alterations to the elevations of the same dwelling house, close up the existing site entrance, construct a new site entrance and construct a domestic garage and permission to retain existing septic tank and percolation area at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 199

• 21 Dec 2018N/a

  Planning permission to construct a front and side extension onto existing dwelling house including alterations to the elevations of the same dwelling house, close up the existing site entrance construct a new site entrance and, construct a domestic garage and permission to retain existing septic tank and percolation area.

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 18645

• 18 Dec 2018Conditional

  for development which includes the construction of 2 No. detached dwellings together with ancillary services and all associated site works at

  Permission, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 18621

• 4 May 2018Conditional

  development consisting of proposed dwelling, sewage treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18211

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 Cloongowna.

Recorded monuments

• RO049-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a NNE-SSW esker ridge. Circular scrub-covered area (diam 10m NNE-SSW; 9.3m ENE-WSW) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m at E to 3.5m at W; int. H 0.25m at E to 0.5m at W; ext. H 0.45m at E to 0.9m at E), with inner and outer facing stones visible NNW-ENE (original Wth 1.3-1.7m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. It is bisected by an intermittently visible NE-SW line of limestone boulders. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO052-025 Standing stone
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope. This is a coarse limestone upright (dims 0.9-0.95m WNW-ESE; 0.65-0.7m NE-SW; max. H 1.5m) with a blunt pointed top. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO052-026 Industrial chimney
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope, c. 5m S of a what was a W-E lane from Cartron castle (RO052-002----), c. 600m to the W, to Athlone. This is a masonry chimney (dims of base 2.95m NE-SW; 2.45m NW-SE; H c. 10m) with a fireplace (Wth 1.5m; H 1.5m; D 0.95m) at ground level on the SE side. The masonry chimney is recessed in three stages as it rises, with an added brick stage at the top. Locally it is thought to have been from a malthouse associated with Cartron castle. 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 Cloongowna.

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 Cloongowna, 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_1518 (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 Cloongowna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cloongowna

Area

2,698,296 m² (269.83 ha, 666.76 acres)

Civil parish

Drum, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Athlone West Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,282 people lived in 1,828 households in the Athlone West Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 61% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barry Beg, Bellanamullia, Cartron, Cloonakille, Corramore, Monksland

Placenames

Cloongowna 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.