Clooncah

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncah, from 4,985 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres) to 146,786 m² (14.68 ha, 36.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clooncah 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 Clooncah 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 Clooncah.

Recorded monuments

• MA081-046001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a low rise, with areas of wettish ground to NE and NW and a stream valley c. 100m to SE. The townland boundary coincides with the N−S course of the stream. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Broadly oval area (38m N-S; 35.6m E-W) defined SSW−NNW by gravelly earthen scarp (Wth c. 4m; ext. H 1.45m) with a slightly raised rim (int. H 0.35m); at N−SE the scarp has been levelled but is still discernible as a slight surface undulation; at SE−S it is incorporated into a defunct field bank that respects the curve of the enclosure. A short section (L 7m) of scarp at SW is topped with a partly sod-covered jumble of stones (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m). A spine of raised ground (23m N-S; 17.4m E-W; H 1.3 at E, 1.6 at W) extends on a NNW-SSE axis through the centre of the interior. It has a narrow flatten top from which there is a marked slope to NW and W and a more gradual slope to E and SE. Traversing the centre of the raised spine, is a roughly N−S gapped single line of boulders, remnants of a defunct field boundary that originally continued beyond the enclosure. Towards the N end of the spine, immediately to E of the line of boulders, is a semi-circular or roughly L-shaped setting (c. 2m across) of partially sod-covered stones, open to NNE. The central raised spine encompasses most of the interior of the enclosure, leaving a relatively narrow berm-like strip of fairly level interior space between it and the enclosing scarp. Within this level strip at SE is a small circular feature (diam. 2m) defined by a low sod-covered stony rim (Wth 0.2-0.4m) of small stones. According to local information, this enclosure may have been used as a children’s burial ground (MA081-046002-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021

• MA081-046002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a possible rath (MA081-046001-). There may have been a children’s burial ground at this enclosure (pers. comm. Leo Morahan). There are no obvious traces of gravemarkers or burials. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Clooncah with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Clooncah · Cluain Catha

Area

597,171 m² (59.72 ha, 147.56 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilkelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilkelly electoral division: 961 people in 382 households; 82% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnahesker, Bruff, Casheltourly, Cloghvoley, Doogary, Mountaincommon

Placenames

Clooncah 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.