Cloonybeirne
Cloonybeirne is a townland in the civil parish of Roscommon, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 697773
- Area
- 95,723 m² (9.57 ha, 23.65 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 47 m².
- 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
- Cloonybeirne
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- RO039-044 Designed landscape - avenue
Description
Avenues, known as walks, from Roscommon castle (RO039-043001-) were part of a designed landscape relating to the fortified house phase (RO039-043010-), and a map of 1736 shows mature trees established on that (RO039-043018-) leading from the castle to the town (Murphy and O'Conor 2008, 32). A second extended ENE (Wth c. 80m; L c. 2 km), and survives in fragments as linear fields (Wth c. 80m) defined by earthen banks and hedges with field drains, although most of it is occupied by private housing. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO040-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area with some bushes (dims 62.7m E-W; 42.8m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4-5.4m; Wth of base 1.5-2.9m; int. D 0.4; ext. D 0.5m) WNW-NE, and by a scarp (H 0.6-1.1m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (06E1071) immediately to the N but outside a buffer zone (Wth 20m) failed to produce any related material (Sweetman 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1400 (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.
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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
- 219.6 ha
- 543 acres
- Land parcels
- 468
- registered freehold, median 1,101 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 54
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
468 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonybeirne, from 1 m² to 232,662 m² (23.27 ha, 57.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 62 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonybeirne 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
8 Sept 2026N/a
Permission for development which will consist of the construction of one pair of semi-detached dormer bungalows, together with associated site entrances, connections to public services, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2660465
14 Aug 2026N/a
Permission to make alterations to the windows and add additional windows on the existing house, construction of a new pitched roof and construct a single storey rear extension and all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2661
28 Apr 2026N/a
Permission for the demolition of the existing discount foodstore and boundary wall at the north west of the site. Construction of a replacement, single storey, discount foodstore (including an off-licence sales area); with 101 parking spaces; dedicated electric vehicle parking and cycle parking; trolley bay canopy; ESB substation building; photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof; new boundary treatment and landscaped area with new pedestrian access points at the north west of the site; minor amendment to kerbline of the vehicle access layout; all new signage including a “flagpole” sign at the vehicle entrance; all associated site development works including landscaping; drainage including attenuation system; external mechanical plant; and, other associated and ancillary works to facilitate the development at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660191
5 Sept 2025Conditional
Permission to construct domestic dwelling house, new site entrance, connection to public services, and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560425
5 Sept 2025Conditional
Planning permission to construct domestic dwelling house, new site entrance, connection to public services and all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560426
28 Jul 2025Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the following: 1. Demolition of existing garage to side of existing dwelling house and demolition of existing boiler room to the rear, 2. Construction of a new single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, 3. Changes to existing elevations to facilitate new windows, doors and stonework, 4. Construction of new garage to rear of site, 5. Together with all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2560370
18 Jul 2025N/a
Permission for development which will consist of the following: 1.demolition of existing garage to side of existing dwelling house and demolition of existing boiler room to the rear, 2.construction of a new single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling house, 3.changes to existing elevations to facilitate new windows, doors and stonework, 4.construction of new garage to rear of site, and 5.together with all ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560355
10 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for a domestic storage garage and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560159
8 Apr 2025N/a
Planning permission for a domestic storage garage and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560154
31 Jan 2025Conditional
Permission to: 1. To demolish existing lean to cleaning bay and internal walls of car park, 2. To construct new service bay extension, 3. To relocate existing car wash and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560030
27 Jan 2025N/a
Permission for the following: 1. To demolish existing lean to cleaning bay and internal walls of car park, 2. To construct new service bay extension, 3. To relocate existing car wash, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560023
11 Oct 2024Conditional
Permission to construct dwelling house with domestic garage, connection to services and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460483
2 Oct 2024N/a
Permission to construct dwelling house with domestic garage, connection to services and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460462
9 Jul 2024Conditional
Planning Permission for change of layout, floor plan and elevations for proposed HCV and LCV Test Centre previously granted planning permission under PD Ref. 23/300, associated works and services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 24106
3 May 2024Conditional
Planning Permission to retain foundation and base and to complete erection of domestic garage and all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2473
15 Apr 2024Conditional
Permission for 1. The demolition of the front porch, demolition of flat roof extension to the rear of the existing property and the demolition of two existing chimneys. 2. The construction of a new single storey extension to the rear of the property. 3. The decommissioning of an existing septic tank and percolation area and the construction of a new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all necessary ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2458
1 Mar 2024N/a
Permission to erect a domestic garage and all associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2429
24 Feb 2024Conditional
Planning permission to construct warehouse unit and all associated ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460089
29 Jan 2024N/a
Permission for - The demolition of both the front porch and flat roof extension to the rear of the existing property, and the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear of the property and all necessary ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2410
6 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for erection of warehouse with retail area, relocation of entrance to access roadway together with connection to public services and all ancillary development at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360205
2 Oct 2023Refused
Planning permission for the following: 1) Demolish derelict dwelling house. 2) Construct new housing development consisting of 4 No. 4 bed two storey corner units, 2 No. 4 bed two storey detached units, and 10 No. 3 bed two storey semi detached units, together with all boundary treatments, road services, site development works and all ancillary site development works and connection to public services at
Permission, 16 homes · Roscommon County Council, 2360152
12 Sept 2023N/a
Permission for the following: 1) Demolish derelict dwelling house. 2) Construct new housing development consisting of 4 no.4 bed two storey corner units, 2 no. 4 bed two storey detached units, and 10 no. 3 bed two storey semi detached units, together with all boundary treatments, road services, site development works and all ancillary site development works and connection to public services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2360108
7 Jul 2023Conditional
Permission for change of use of part of existing garage premises to HCV and LCV Test Centre, to include reception area, offices, waiting area, store, Garda Technical Room, service bay, proposed extension to side of building to accommodate part of HCV and LCV Test Centre, Retention permission for existing store and paint shop and change of use to store and Garda Technical Room, associated works and services at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23300
9 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for change of use of existing garage premises to HCV and LCV Test Centre, refurbish and extend existing garage premises to include new reception area, offices, waiting area, Garda technical room, store, service bay, Retention of existing store and paint store to rear of premises, associated works and services at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 23248
30 May 2023Conditional
Retention Permission for the retention of the foundation and floor slab to the side of the existing dwelling, and Permission for the construction of a proposed single storey house extension to the side of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works and services at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23225
The 25 most recent of 54 applications.
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 Cloonybeirne.
Recorded monuments
- RO039-044 Designed landscape - avenue
Description
Avenues, known as walks, from Roscommon castle (RO039-043001-) were part of a designed landscape relating to the fortified house phase (RO039-043010-), and a map of 1736 shows mature trees established on that (RO039-043018-) leading from the castle to the town (Murphy and O'Conor 2008, 32). A second extended ENE (Wth c. 80m; L c. 2 km), and survives in fragments as linear fields (Wth c. 80m) defined by earthen banks and hedges with field drains, although most of it is occupied by private housing. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO039-094 Fulacht fia
Description
On a slight S-facing slope in a low-lying landscape. A burnt stone spread (dims. 13m N-S; 9m E-W) with an indentation at S was excavated during 2003 prior to development. The circular pit (diam. 2.5m; D 0.4-0.65m) and the mound (max. H 0.4m) produced charcoal but no artefacts. (Morahan 2006a) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO040-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a gentle S-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area with some bushes (dims 62.7m E-W; 42.8m N-S) defined by a fosse (Wth of top 4-5.4m; Wth of base 1.5-2.9m; int. D 0.4; ext. D 0.5m) WNW-NE, and by a scarp (H 0.6-1.1m) elsewhere. There is no identifiable original entrance. Archaeological testing (06E1071) immediately to the N but outside a buffer zone (Wth 20m) failed to produce any related material (Sweetman 2009). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO040-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
Visible as a circular feature (diam. c. 60m) on aerial photographs (OSAP: 4, 3263-4), and situated in a low-lying landscape. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 45m N-S; 44m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.25-0.35m) and a band of lush vegetation (Wth 0.8-1.2m) which has a causeway (Wth 4m) at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
- Essex Lawn House, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
Description
Detached L-plan five-bay two-storey country house, built c.1850, with return and hipped addition to rear, and porch to front elevation. Hipped slate roof with ashlar chimneystacks and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with limestone string course separating ground and first floors. Square-headed window openings with stucco architraves, tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows. Dormer windows to addition. Timber panelled door with stucco surround having canopy supported by console brackets, accessed by limestone steps. Doric columns to angles of porch and round-headed window openings, with stained-glass windows. Two-storey coach house to north of rear yard with pedimented central breakfront crowned by bellcote. Hipped slate roof with stone chimneystack, random coursed limestone walls with quoins, bull's eye windows and carriage arch opening. Two-storey outbuilding to west of rear yard with pitched slate roof and random coursed limestone walls. Walled garden to east of house accessed through cast-iron gate, with two-stage tower to northeast corner of garden. Simple wrought-iron gate flanked by carved stone gate piers and pedestrian turnstile. Decorative cast-iron entrance gates flanked by rendered piers set in squared limestone boundary wall.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonybeirne, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1400 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonybeirne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonybeirne
- Area
- 2,196,034 m² (219.6 ha, 542.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Roscommon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 5,513 people lived in 1,881 households in the Roscommon Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Acres, Ardsallagh More, Ballypheasan, Barnhill, Cloonbrackna, Killarney, Lisnacroghy or Gallowstown, Roxborough
- Placenames
- Cloonybeirne 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.