Cloonalison

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonalison, from 86 m² to 145,349 m² (14.53 ha, 35.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Cloonalison 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.

• 2 Nov 2022Conditional

  Demolition of existing derelict dwelling and out houses. Construction of new dwelling with the installation of a new proprietary treatment unit and infiltration system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22967

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A SLATTED HOUSE WITH ANCILLARY CONCRETE SLAB, INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 181055

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 Cloonalison.

Recorded monuments

• MA073-001001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise, with good views, in an area of undulating poor-average grassland. Raised circular area (27.4m N–S; 27.8m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m at NE). The bank is low internally, reduced almost to a scarp but retaining a slight, stony internal rim. A low, gently sloping section (Wth 3.4m) of the bank at E may mark an original entrance. There is a souterrain (MA073-001002-) in the interior. The interior is planted with conifers, and the perimeter is ringed with a post and wire fence. A farm track, on a NW–SE axis, lies close to the SW edge of the rath. There is a sand pit a few meters to W of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 June 2021

• MA073-001002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA073-001001). This souterrain is indicated as ‘Cave’ in the NW quadrant of the rath on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 June 2021

• MA073-002001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located on a terrace or rise on a NW-facing slope, with extensive views SW–NE. Views are restricted at E–S by rising ground. Raised circular area (32m N–S; 32.3m) defined by a substantial drystone wall (Wth 3.3-4m; int. H 0.4-0.8m; ext. H 1.35-1.75m). The wall is constructed of random rubble with larger stones evident in the basal levels. The exterior wall face is highest at N–NE where there is a natural fall of ground. The inner wall face is low and largely tumbled. The wall has been modified or rebuilt in parts. At SE a later field wall is incorporated into the cashel wall but respects the original curve of the enclosure. At SW the cashel wall is replaced by a linear field wall on a NW–SE axis. Heaps of loose small stones, probably field clearance stones, are piled along the top of the wall. There is no clearly defined entrance; there is a narrow gap, now blocked up, in the wall at S, and another narrow gap (Wth 0.4m), also blocked up, at NW. A sod-covered stony terrace (Wth 4m) projects beyond the base of the cashel wall at WNW–NE, defined on its outer edge by an irregular scarp (H 1m), partly quarried away at N. A low spine (Wth c. 15m E–W) of raised ground with gently sloping sides extends through the centre of cashel on a roughly N–S axis, giving the interior a slightly domed profile. Traces of cultivation ridges on an E-W axis traverse the interior, most evident where they cross the central rise. The interior was used as a children’s burial ground (MA073-002002). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 June 2021

• MA073-002002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a cashel (MA073-002001). A children’s burial ground is indicated at the cashel on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. According to local tradition, two low, sod-covered mound of stones (2.4m E–W; 1.2m N–S; H 0.3m), one located against the inner face of the cashel wall at N and the other abutting the wall at S, are graves. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 June 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 high, 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 Cloonalison.

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

Name

Cloonalison · Cluain an Liosáin

Area

777,613 m² (77.76 ha, 192.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Sonnagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Sonnagh electoral division: 1,242 people in 457 households; 76% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Kilgarriff West, Lurga Lower, Lurga Upper, Ranaranny, Treanacally or Hagfield

Placenames

Cloonalison 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.