Cloonaraher

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonaraher, from 1,356 m² to 153,278 m² (15.33 ha, 37.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Cloonaraher 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.

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new access road facilitating access to existing forestry plantation. The proposed access road shall have a bell-mouth entrance at public road and back in type loading bay together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18417

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: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• SL032-043001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on the SE edge of a low elevation. The more south-westerly of two conjoined raths (SL032-043002-). A roughly circular area (32.6m NE-SW; 34m NW-SE) defined by a sod-covered stone bank NE-SE, by a substantial bank of gravel and stone (Wth 4m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H c. 1m) S-W and by a gapped stony rise (Wth 3-3.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.6m) W-N. The bank merges N-NE with the stone bank enclosing the conjoined rath to NE. A quarry pit truncates the enclosing element SSE-S. Immediately outside the bank to SW is another area of quarrying. The NW quadrant appears to be at a slightly higher level than the rest of the interior. There is a broad shallow depression (c. 8m NW-SE; 4-5m NE-SW) without clearly defined edges in the NE quadrant, marked by a concentration of irises. A ruined field wall skirts the rath WSW-NNE at a distance of c. 1m. At NNE this abuts the later wall which tops the stone bank enclosing the conjoined rath (SL032-043002-). 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

• SL032-043002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, on a break of a NE-facing slope. The more north-easterly of the two conjoined raths (SL032-043001-). A roughly circular area (33m NE-SW; 30.5m NW-SE) enclosed by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 1-1.45m; ext. H 1.3m) topped by a stone field boundary. The stone bank appears quite compact S-NE but NE-SE it has a high broad external slump (Wth 4.5m; int. H 1m; ext. H 1.7m). The stone field boundary (Wth 0.7-1m) has been grafted onto the inner face and top of the stone bank, creating a fairly vertical internal face and raising its height by c. 0.3-0.5m. The level interior is slightly lower than exterior ground level along the WSW arc and slightly higher along the ENE arc. According to local information, this rath is known as 'the pen'. 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

• SL032-044 Souterrain
  Description

  On a gentle slope, above a stream to E and NE. A broken-out entrance leads to an oval chamber (max. dims. 3m N-S; 2m E-W), built of slightly corbelled drystone-walling and roofed by large flat stone lintels. A silted-up creepway to a passage is visible at the NE side of the chamber. According to local information, 'ashes and burnt stones' were noted in the vicinity of the souterrain when the field was ploughed. 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

• SL032-231 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  On low-lying generally level pasture some 1.3km SW of Knocknashee Mountain. The tomb is represented by the remains of a SSE-facing gallery (L c. 8m). There is no evidence of a court but a transversely set jamb at the W would seem to have formed one side of the entrance. A large rectangular block of stone (2.1m x 1m x 0.7m) lying prostrate at the gallery entrance seems to be a displaced lintel. The W side of the gallery is represented by three orthostats and a fallen one. One orthostat adjoins the entrance jamb; next to this is a fallen one; the two other orthostats stand 1m apart at the inner end of the gallery. Two orthostats survive next to each other at the outer end of the E side of the gallery. An almost prostrate slab at the N end of the gallery seems to be the backstone. 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 Cloonaraher.

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 Cloonaraher, about 1 in 20 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 Cloonaraher.

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 Cloonaraher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cloonaraher · Cluain Arathair

Area

977,046 m² (97.7 ha, 241.43 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Streamstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

255 people lived in 99 households in the Streamstown electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnyara, Carrowmore, Carrowntawa, Cloonarara, Cloonbaniff, Cloondrihara

Placenames

Cloonaraher 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.