Cloonalough

179 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonalough, from 37 m² to 106,696 m² (10.67 ha, 26.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonalough 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.

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  Permission to construct dwelling house, garage and septic tank/foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted, together with all ancillary site works and services at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22680

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  Permission for the following: (1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house; (2) Domestic garage; (3) Proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22613

• 22 Oct 2021N/a

  Permission for the following: (1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house; (2) Domestic garage; (3) Proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area together with all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21598

• 2 Jul 2020Conditional

  1. To demolish existing dwelling house; 2. To construct replacement dwelling house, domestic garage and to upgrade existing treatment system with new proprietary treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site development works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20242

• 26 Apr 2018Conditional

  to develop an existing entrance and upgrade it to forestry harvesting standard (bell mouth entrance) onto public road to facilitate access to forestry plantation together with internal access road and all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18199

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough O'Flynn 001645

Recorded monuments

• RO025-001 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  Marked as a mill on an undated and un-referenced map in NLI, and situated on low-lying ground on the E bank of a S-N section of the canalized River Suck close to its source. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO025-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of a low NNW-SSE ridge overlooking the W shore of Lough O'Flynn, c. 450m to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 31.2m N-S; 29.7m E-W) defined by a slight earthen bank (Wth 3.7-4.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1-1.1m) ENE-SW and by a scarp (0.9-1.5m) elsewhere. There is a rounded fosse (Wth of top 3.6m at E to 6.3m at S; D 0.1m at E to 0.5m at W) ENE-S-NW with an outer overgrown bank (Wth 3.6m; H 1m) at SE and SSW-NNW. There is no identifiable original entrance, but there are quarries in the NW quadrant of the interior, perhaps the site of the 'cave' in local tradition (Gannon 1972). 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 Cloonalough.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Cloonalough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cloonalough · Cluain an Locha

Area

2,995,911 m² (299.59 ha, 740.31 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Ballinlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinlough electoral division: 1,138 people in 465 households; 78% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clooncan, Clooncrim, Cloontarsna, Taghnarra, Willsborough

Placenames

Cloonalough 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.