Clooncan

221 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncan, from 33 m² to 265,871 m² (26.59 ha, 65.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Clooncan 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.

• 30 Sept 2026N/a

  Permission for retention to (1) retain a material change to the roof covering of an existing dwelling; (2) retain a mobile home placement, with a wastewater capture system and solar PV array, to provide habitable accommodation for a period of 18-months. Secondly, the development will apply for Planning Permission to (A) carry out restorative works to an existing single-storey dwelling; (B) install a ground-mounted solar PV system with storage; and (C) install a Wastewater Treatment System with Tertiary Dispersal and associated ancillary site development works at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660524

• 21 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for development which will consist of: alterations to and renovation of an existing single storey dwelling to include construction of a roof, part replacement of existing external walls to the south and the installation of an effluent treatment system including all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660431

• 13 Aug 2026N/a

  Retention Permission & Permission to (1) retain a replacement roof, incorporating a change of materials to slate tiles, to an existing single storey dwelling; (2) retain the temporary placement of a mobile home with wastewater capture system, for a period not exceeding 18 months, providing owners accommodation during the period of construction; and (3) retain a temporary ground mount solar PV array, with solar PV equipment storage, for a period not exceeding 18 months; and secondly to apply for planning Permission to (4) perform external and internal restorative works to an existing single storey dwelling. The works will incorporate window and door replacement and renewal of the external render; (5) the installation of a permanent ground mount solar PV array, with equipment storage, as the source of the primary electrical supply to the properties and all ancillary site development works in support of above at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660416

• 22 Jul 2026N/a

  Refurbishment to an existing one storey dwelling, to include all associated internal and external alterations; and (2) Retain a temporary mobile home structure for a period not exceeding 18 months to provide owners living accommodation during construction works to the property at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2660371

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  Permission to refurbish existing house to include alterations to elevations, to demolish existing rear extensions and to construct new rear extension, to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660304

• 14 Apr 2025Conditional

  Planning Permission to construct livestock dry bedding shed together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2528

• 22 May 2024Conditional

  Permission to retain and complete machinery shed on site together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2483

• 10 May 2024Conditional

  Retention Permission for 1. The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house 2. A roofed canopy to the rear of the existing dwelling house and 3. The construction of a domestic garage with all associated site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460214

• 24 Mar 2023N/a

  Retention Permission for: 1. The construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house; 2. A roofed canopy to the rear of the existing dwelling house and 3. The construction of a domestic garage with all associated site development works at

  Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2395

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  for a new forest road entrance and erection of a new security barrier together with all ancillary site services and associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19298

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: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog SAC 000597
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrowbehy/Caher Bog 000597

Recorded monuments

• RO019-017 Children's burial ground
  Description

  At the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. Rectangular grass-covered area (int. dims 20.5m NW-SE; 12.5m NE-SW) defined by field walls at NW and NE and concrete walls at SE and SW. Three or four rows of grave markers (max. dims c. 0.6m x 0.15m; H 0.3m) are aligned N-S. (Timoney 1995, 8) 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 Clooncan.

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 Clooncan, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooncan.

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.

• Clooncan, Ballinlough8 sales

Name

Clooncan · Cluain Ceann

Area

4,880,245 m² (488.02 ha, 1,205.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkeevin, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Cloonfower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

346 people lived in 137 households in the Cloonfower electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher, Carrowbehy, Cloonalough, Clooncrim, Derrylahan (Co. Mayo), Gortaganny, Killunagher (Co. Mayo), Lecarrow, Taghnarra, Taghnoose

Placenames

Clooncan 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.