Clonbroney

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonbroney, from 882 m² to 444,703 m² (44.47 ha, 109.89 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonbroney 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Clonbroney 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 the townland of Clonbroney.

Recorded monuments

• LF010-059 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low NW-SE rise in pasture. Not indicated on the 1837 or 1883 eds. of the OS -inch map. Described in 1978 (SMR file) as a roughly circular earthwork (diam. c. 60m) definedy by a wide, low bank of earth and stone with no trace of a fosse. There was an entrance gap at E. A NE-SW running field bank cut through the NW quadrant of the monument and the enclosing bank was very poorly preserved to the NW of it. The monument has since been levelled but is visible as a cropmark on an OSI aerial photograph (SMR file). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 5 December 2012

• LF010-062001 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture on the highest point of a low hill, within a graveyard (LF010-062002-). The nunnery of 'Cluain Bronaich' is mentioned in the Tripartite Life of St Patrick and the deaths of a number of abbesses are recorded in the annals from 933 up until 1163, after which it drops into obscurity (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 314-15). In 1397 Denis Odunchun is recorded as the perpetual vicar (Cal. papal letters 1904, vol. 5, 105) and in 1444 Marcus Oforgail was appointed (ibid. 1912, vol. 9, 429). A church is depicted on an early 17th-century map of Granard barony (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I.i.47). A report in 1944 (ITA Survey) recorded that the ruins of the nunnery were removed in the 19th century to build a nearby bridge. Described in 1982 (SMR file) as the grass-covered footings of a rectangular structure aligned E-W, probably the remains of a church. The W end was obscured by stones that had been dumped there as a result of clearance in the past. The line of the N wall extended eastwards beyond the presumed line of the E wall, suggesting the presence of another structure immediately to the E (ibid.). All that now survives are the wall-footings of the possible church (ext. dims. 13.2m E-W; 8.5m N-S; wall T 0.84m). A possible cross (LF010-062004-) lay to the SE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF010-062002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a ‘nunnery’ (LF010-062001-). This irregularly shaped graveyard (67m NW-SE; 64m NE-SW) is enclosed from N-S-WSW by a stone wall and elsewhere is defined by a scarp (H 1.1m; 1.9m). Access is via a wrought-iron gate at SW, adjacent to a roadway. The ground level within the interior is extremely uneven. Numerous low upright stones mark burials. Inscribed memorials date from the 18th to the 20th centuries. A possible cross (LF010-062004-) is associated. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

• LF010-062004 Cross
  Description

  Within a graveyard (LF010-062002-). A report in 1982 (SMR file) noted a plain rectangular limestone pillar set in the ground between the SE angle of a possible nunnery (LF010-062001-) and the graveyard wall to the E. The top was broken and both faces were smooth and plain; it tapered from bottom to top. Its form suggested the possibility that it was the shaft of a cross but it is of unknown date. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 April 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonbroney.

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 Clonbroney, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Clonbroney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Clonbroney · Cluain Brónaigh

Area

1,354,146 m² (135.41 ha, 334.62 acres)

Civil parish

Clonbroney, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Ballinalee, the unit of the census

Census 2022

648 people lived in 253 households in the Ballinalee electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagreagh, Ballynascraw, Ballyreaghan, Cloonfin, Knockmoody, Lislea, Prucklishtown, Tullybaun

Placenames

Clonbroney 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.