Cleraun

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cleraun, from 163 m² to 218,299 m² (21.83 ha, 53.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cleraun 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.

• 10 Apr 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of the proposed retention permission of works to the dwelling to date as the original dwelling on the site was demolished, inclusive of the proposed permission for renovations, alterations and extension to the existing dwelling structure with a redesigned roof. Decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area to be replaced with a proprietary treatment system and percolation area, inclusive of all ancillary site works as per submitted drawings

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660115

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  construct extension to silage base, provide new dungstead, concrete apron and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2394

• 20 Feb 2020Conditional

  proposed construction of dry agricultural storage shed and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2043

• 20 Sept 2019Refused

  the construction of an agricultural shed along with connections to all site services and all other associated site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 19241

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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
• Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cleraun.

Architectural heritage

• Portanure Lodge, house, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1875, having flat-roofed entrance porch to front elevation with cast-iron railings to parapet, and lean-to extension to rear (north). Hipped natural slate roof to front block, pitched natural slate roof to rear block, with brick chimneystacks having terracotta chimney pots and cut limestone coping. Cut limestone eaves course to main block (south); raised cut stone verges to gable ends of block to rear (north). Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with cut limestone block-and-start quoins and rendered plinth, dressed ashlar limestone facing to front of porch (south) and cut limestone string courses to porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Round-headed tripartite French doors to centre bay at first floor level, giving access to roof level of porch. Square-headed door opening to the east face of porch having timber door with overlight. Cut stone step to door. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the west of Ballymahon, overlooking Lough Ree to the south. Yard to rear of house having single-storey outbuilding with pitched natural slate roof and rubble limestone walls. Gateway to west side of yard having a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and timber double gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to yard. Square-headed integral pedestrian entrance built into wall to the north side of main gateway having roughly dressed limestone surround and timber door. Walled garden on square-plan to rear (north) having rubble limestone boundary walls. Main gateway to the house to the west comprising a pair of dressed coursed limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having limestone capstones and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to road-frontage to the west. Boat house (13402506) located on shore of Lough Ree to the south.

• Portanure Lodge, boathouse, 1860–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted boat house associated with Portanure House (13402505), built c. 1875, having three-bay side elevations (east and west). Pitched natural slate roof with cut limestone eaves course, carried across gables to form string courses, and raised cut stone verges to gable ends. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed ashlar limestone walls. Segmental-arched boat opening to south gable end having cut limestone voussoirs to arch and timber double-doors. Paired segmental-headed window opening over to south gable, having chamfered cut limestone surround, thin hoodmouldings and timber top-hung windows. Slit windows/loophole openings to side elevations and to north gable. Square-headed door opening to east elevation having cut limestone keystone, timber battened door and hooped wrought-iron flat bar gate. Square-headed door opening to north gable end having decorative cut limestone keystone, label moulding and timber door. Located on the shore of Lough Ree to the southwest of Portanure Lodge. Channel to the south, living access to lake, having dressed ashlar limestone retaining walls. Steps to retaining walls. Pier/jetty to the southwest having moulded cut stone mooring post.

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 Cleraun, 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 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 Cleraun.

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.

• Cleraun, Newtowncashel6 sales

Name

Cleraun · An Cloichreán

Area

1,375,922 m² (137.59 ha, 340 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lismagawley, Pollagh, Portanure, Portanure Bog

Placenames

Cleraun 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.