Cloonfinglas

74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfinglas, from 63 m² to 956,882 m² (95.69 ha, 236.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Cloonfinglas 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.

• 8 Apr 2026Conditional

  Permission to construct a single storey dwelling, domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a percolation area, associated site development works and services at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2625

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  Planning permission to construct a new dwelling house and garage with septic tank and percolation area together with all its associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17378

• 30 Jan 2017Conditional

  Planning Permission for 1 No. forest road access onto the Local Road, with associated turning head and security barrier at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 1734

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: Bellanagare Bog SAC 000592
• Special Protection Area: Bellanagare Bog SPA 004105
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bellanagare Bog 000592

Recorded monuments

• RO014-077001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, and first identified by M. A. Timoney. Circular grass-covered mound of burnt stone (diam. 11.9m NE-SW; 10.9m NW-SE; H 0.3-0.4m) with a depression (dims 2m x 1m) on the perimeter at NW. Fulacht fia (RO014-077002-) is c. 30m to the NNW. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest. See the attached view from the NW Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO014-077002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope, and first identified by M. A. Timoney. Oval grass-covered stony mound (dims 6.9m NW-SE; 4.6m NE-SW; H 0.2m). Fulacht fia (RO017-077001-) is c. 30m to the SSE. It remains unplanted in a coniferous forest. See the attached view from the S Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-015 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a low knoll on a gentle S-facing slope. This is a circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. c. 60m E-W; 56.5m N-S) defined by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.3-7.8m; Wth of base 2.9-4m; int. D 0.4-0.6m; ext. D 0.3-0.8m), and an outer earthen bank with some bushes NE-E (Wth of base 6.3m; Wth of top 2.3m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.9m) and SE-WNW (Wth of base 2.8-4.5m; int. H 0.3-08m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m) that is incorporated into a field bank WNW-NE. The fosse is missing NE-SE. The interior is overlain by a N-S field wall towards the perimeter at E, and it is more overgrown E of this feature. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 5 February 2018

• RO020-016 Cairn - clearance cairn
  Description

  On a low-lying level landscape with an E-W stream immediately to the N. Noted as a fulacht fia but not described by Gannon (1972). There is a spoil mound at the junction of two drains. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle SE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 45m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (at S: Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.4m; at N: Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.5m). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance, and a clearance cairn overlies the perimeter at NNW. The interior is overlain by a WNW-ESE field wall towards the perimeter at S. Enclosure (RO021-002----) is c. 130m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO021-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the bottom of a S-facing slope. A curving field wall and hedge survive SE-W (C c. 70m), but there is no evidence of the rest of the perimeter in pasture. Rath (RO021-001----) is c. 130m to the N. It is probably a rath. 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 Cloonfinglas.

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 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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 Cloonfinglas with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cloonfinglas · Cluain Fionnghlaise

Area

3,352,653 m² (335.27 ha, 828.46 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Fairymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 134 households in the Fairymount electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonsheever, Grallagh, Leitrim, Lugakeeran, Mullaghnashee, Parkeel, Stonepark, Tully

Placenames

Cloonfinglas 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.