Cloonard
Cloonard is a townland in the civil parish of Killashee, barony of Longford, Co. Longford. Its name in Irish is Cluain Ard.
Parcel 73837
- Area
- 766 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Cloonard
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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_1606 (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.
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
- 169.2 ha
- 418 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 12,450 m² (1.24 ha, 3.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonard, from 761 m² to 624,723 m² (62.47 ha, 154.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Cloonard 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 Cloonard 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonard.
Recorded monuments
- LF013-065002 Structure - peatland
Description
A scatter (Wth 6m; D 0.04m) of hazel and alder roundwoods, all in a very poor condition but with toolmarks evident. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065004 Structure - peatland
Description
A small scatter (Wth 0.06m; D 0.04m) of mainly birch roundwoods on the surface of the field. Toolmarks are present and it is possible that the wood was coppiced. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065005 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 2.5m; D 0.12m), orientated NNE-SSW, composed of transverse worked roundwood and brushwood, mainly hazel and alder. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065006 Structure - peatland
Description
A scatter (L 1m; Wth 0.5m) of predominantly birch roundwoods with evidence of woodworking. Most of the wood is hard and twisted and it may possibly be an area of clearance. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065007 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 2m; D 0.13m), orientated E-W, composed of transverse and longitudinal roundwood with occasional brushwood. The main species were hazel and alder; toolmarks were evident. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065008 Road - class 3 togher
Description
A togher (Wth 2.8m; D 0.16m), orientated NNE-SSW, composed of transverse and longitudinal roundwood and brushwood. The wood was predominantly hazel and toolmarks were evident. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065009 Structure - peatland
Description
An unstructured deposit (L 1m; Wth 1m) of worked alder and hazel roundwoods. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065010 Structure - peatland
Description
A possible partial walkway (Wth 0.17m; D 0.05m) of brushwood and a worked split-oak timber. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065011 Structure - peatland
Description
Remains comprised a series of regularly laid roundwoods and brushwood (L 3m; Wth 2m), with hazel and birch predominant. Toolmarks were evident but the wood uncovered was in a very bad state of preservation. Although the remains were insufficient to classify with certainty, the possibility that they may have represented the last vestiges of a togher could not be excluded. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065012 Road - class 1 togher
Description
A togher (L 20m min.), orientated NE-SW, was destroyed before it could be recorded. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065013 Road - class 2 togher
Description
This togher (L 55m min.), orientated NNE-SSW, was destroyed before it could be recorded. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065014 Structure - peatland
Description
A site (L 5m; Wth 5m) composed of a number of badly deteriorated pieces of worked hazel, birch roundwood and brushwood. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LF013-065015 Structure - peatland
Description
An isolated piece of yew brushwood (L 2m; diam. 0.04m) found in situ in the bog with a large number of toolmarks on its surface. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by the former Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit, University College, Dublin. Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonard.
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 Cloonard, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1606 (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 Cloonard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonard · Cluain Ard
- Area
- 1,692,457 m² (169.25 ha, 418.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killashee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Longford
- Electoral division
- Cloondara, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 718 people lived in 265 households in the Cloondara electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycore, Ballynakill, Clogher and Rinn, Cloondara, Cloonkeel, Knappoge, Middleton
- Placenames
- Cloonard 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.