Cloonbulban

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbulban, from 420 m² to 76,366 m² (7.64 ha, 18.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Cloonbulban 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.

• 15 Oct 2025Refused

  Planning Permission to construct dwelling house and septic tank with percolation area all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560721

• 10 Jul 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage and septic tank/proprietary effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25277

• 29 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO RETAIN SHEDS AS BUILT, ALL AS PER DRAWING DOCUMENTATION SUBMITTED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22646

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE, DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED AND CONSTRUCT NEW MATCHING SHED BUILDING FOR USE ANCILLARY TO THE HOUSE, IMPROVE ACCESS FROM PUBLIC ROAD, UPGRADE SEWERAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITEWORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19856

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 Cloonbulban.

Recorded monuments

• MA102-060 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located on the N bank of a stream, at the interface between an area of peat and drier ground. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0681) (Guinan 2015, 29-42; 48-51, Cloonbulban I). The fulacht fia consisted of a low irregular-shaped mound (9m N–S; 11m E–W) of sandstone fragments in a matrix of charcoal-rich, peaty soil. The mound had suffered disturbance in the past and a field drain cut through the centre. Excavation revealed two troughs cut into the underlying boulder clay. At W, there was a subcircular trough (1.1m N–S; 1.32m E–W; D 0.42-0.48m) with a series of narrow, regularly spaced linear soil-filled features visible in the base, possibly the remnants of a decayed wooden lining. The second trough, which was located 5m to E, was partly destroyed by the field drain that cut through the mound. The surviving E portion (1.06m N–S; 1.14m E–W; D 0.48m) had steep sides and a flat base. Both troughs had a gully-like feature extending downslope from the edge of the cut, which possibly served as an overflow channel. Twenty five chert artefacts were recovered, including two concave scarpers. Five charcoal samples were submitted for radiocarbon dating. Three of the samples produced dates from the Early Bronze Age: 3502 +/-49 BP (1970-1698 BC); 3702 +/-42 BP (2273-1976 BC); 3454 +/-42 BP (1889-1680 BC). Two samples taken from the basal layer in the eastern trough produced dates indicating activity at the site in the Late Neolithic period: 3822 +/-42 BP (2459-2141 BC); 3892 +/-42 BP (2553-2281 BC). Another fulacht fia (MA102-061----) was located 25m to E. (Guinan 2015, 29-42; 48-51). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

• MA102-061 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located on the N bank of a stream, at the interface between an area of peat at N and drier ground to S. This fulacht fia was discovered during archaeological monitoring of the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme (2001-2002) and was subsequently fully excavated (01E0681) (Guinan 2015, 29-31; 42-51, Cloonbulban II). It consisted of a low irregular-shaped deposit (2.28m E–W; 2.96m N–S; D 0.02-0.06m) of heat-shattered sandstone in charcoal-rich soil, which had suffered disturbance in the modern era. A subcircular trough (0.96m N–S; 1.1m E–W; D 0.44m), with steep sides and a flat base, was cut into the underlying boulder clay. Fifteen chert artefacts were recovered. A charcoal sample submitted for radiocarbon analysis produced a date in the Late Neolithic period: 3946 +/-46 BP (2580-2335 BC). Another fulacht fia (MA102-60----) was located 25m to W. (Guinan 2015, 29-31; 42-51). Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 March 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonbulban, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Cloonbulban with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloonbulban · Cluain Bulbain

Area

983,408 m² (98.34 ha, 243.01 acres)

Civil parish

Bekan, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Bekan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

776 people lived in 281 households in the Bekan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bekan, Belesker, Cloonlara, Cloontumper, Lissaniska

Placenames

Cloonbulban 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.