Cloongad

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloongad, from 143 m² to 60,088 m² (6.01 ha, 14.85 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 Cloongad 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 May 2025Conditional

  (1) to retain the existing extension number 1 to the side of the existing dwelling house (2) to retain the existing extension number 2 to the rear and side of the existing dwelling house (3) to retain the existing garage (4) to retain the existing storage shed (5) alterations to the existing site entrance (6) and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560181

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural machinery shed to include the filling/ importation of 8,973 cum or 17,048 tons of inert soil and stone material round the proposed shed and complete area of the site along with reseeding to complete area of the as part of the site development. Natura Impact Statement accompanies this application.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360046

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 the townland of Cloongad.

Recorded monuments

• SL034-116 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a ridge. A slightly raised circular area (32m E-W; 28m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1m) which is best preserved along the SE arc. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary along the NW and NE arcs and is disturbed by quarrying along the SW and S arcs. An entrance (Wth 5m) at S gives access to a large quarry hole (c. 20m x 14m) in the SW quadrant. An arc of an outer bank (L 16m; Wth 2.5m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.6m) is evident along the NW arc. There is a shallow boggy hollow immediately outside the bank at NE. 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

• SL034-117 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope just below the top of a ridge. A raised roughly circular area (46m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m) SE-N and by a scarp (H 1.4m) N-SE. The line of a silted-up external fosse is marked by a band of irises (Wth 2m) along W arc. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at N with the bank on the W side slightly splaying outwards. The W portion of the interior is level while the E portion slopes slightly down to E. Field boundaries (on a NE-SW axis) cross the NW and SE edges of the rath. 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 Cloongad.

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 Cloongad, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloongad · Cluain Gad

Area

618,807 m² (61.88 ha, 152.91 acres)

Civil parish

Tawnagh, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Lakeview, the unit of the census

Census 2022

511 people lived in 185 households in the Lakeview electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cleavry, Cloonymeenaghan, Drumderry, Lecarrow, Sheerevagh

Placenames

Cloongad 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.