Cloonahinshin
Cloonahinshin is a townland in the civil parish of Cloonoghil, barony of Corran, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Cluain na hUinseann.
Parcel 727936
- Area
- 631,746 m² (63.17 ha, 156.11 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 533 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
- Cloonahinshin
Planning applications on this parcel
19 May 2025Conditional
Planning permission to (a) build a two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling house, (b) demolish existing conservatory to side of dwelling house, on site, to accommodate proposed extension, (c) upgrade existing wastewater treatment system on site, together with all ancillary site works and services at Woodhill, Bunnanadden, Ballymote, Co.Sligo.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560202
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: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC 000636
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs 000636
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- SL033-132 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a ridge. A raised oval area (int. diam. 33m x 28.5m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.75m). Field boundaries on an E-W and a N-S axis cut the N and E edges of the rath, respectively. The bank is partially covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL033-133 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised oval area (int. diam. 26m x 20m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.8m) with numerous gaps. A N-S field boundary crosses the W edge of the rath and an older field boundary approaches it from E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL033-134 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a rise. The heavily degraded remains of a raised circular area (int. diam. 23.5m) enclosed by a denuded earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 101.3 ha
- 250 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 37,327 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonahinshin, from 1,967 m² to 631,746 m² (63.17 ha, 156.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Cloonahinshin 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cloonahinshin 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Templehouse and Cloonacleigha Loughs SAC 000636
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Templehouse And Cloonacleigha Loughs 000636
Recorded monuments
- SL033-132 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a ridge. A raised oval area (int. diam. 33m x 28.5m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 2m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.75m). Field boundaries on an E-W and a N-S axis cut the N and E edges of the rath, respectively. The bank is partially covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL033-133 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on the N-facing slope of a ridge. A raised oval area (int. diam. 26m x 20m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.8m) with numerous gaps. A N-S field boundary crosses the W edge of the rath and an older field boundary approaches it from E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
- SL033-134 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on a rise. The heavily degraded remains of a raised circular area (int. diam. 23.5m) enclosed by a denuded earthen bank (Wth c. 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.3m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonahinshin.
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 Cloonahinshin, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonahinshin.
- 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 Cloonahinshin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonahinshin · Cluain na hUinseann
- Area
- 1,013,434 m² (101.34 ha, 250.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloonoghil, and its townlands
- Barony
- Corran
- Electoral division
- Cloonoghill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 307 people lived in 119 households in the Cloonoghill electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrowkeel, Carrowreagh, Cloonagahaun, Cloonameehan North, Knocknakillew or Woodhill, Shancarrigeen or Oldrock
- Placenames
- Cloonahinshin 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.