Cloonlara

106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonlara, from 9 m² to 91,117 m² (9.11 ha, 22.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Cloonlara 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.

• 17 Jun 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Refurbishment works to exisitng cottage, existing access roadway will be used, no new development taking place

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24219

• 7 Mar 2017Conditional

  RETENTION: STRUCTURAL RENOVATIONS TO THE PRE EXISTING MACHINERY PARTS STORE. CONSTRUCTION OF OFFICE SPACE EXTENSION TO THE PRE EXISTING OFFICE/STORE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 17153

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 Cloonlara.

Recorded monuments

• MA062-053 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a narrow E-W ridge, with panoramic view. This originally circular, bivallate ringfort was incorporated into a later system of field walls, and partly levelled. The remains consist of a subcircular area (c. 25m E-W; c. 23m N-S) defined W−NNE by a sod-covered bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.6m, at W) of earth and stone, and NE−E by traces of a levelled scarp, overlain by a N-S field wall. The SE−S edge of the ringfort is truncated by a pronounced straight E-W scarp/field boundary, coinciding with the top of the natural ridge slope. The SSW−W arc of the enclosure has been removed. An outer stone bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m) survives in an arc at SW−NNW, with an intervening gap or fosse (Wth 2m) which is evident as a flat area or terrace rather than a sunken feature. The interior is relatively level. A sod-covered, roughly semicircular slightly raised feature (diam. 3.7m E-W; H 0.25m), with stones protruding around the edge, is located slightly NW of centre. Roughly in the centre of this is a sod-covered heap (diam. c. 2m; H 0.25m) of earth and stones. These features may be the result of field clearance. A field bank on a N-S axis extends through the E half of the interior. This originally flanked the W side of a farm track which cut across the E edge of the ringfort. The remnants of the enclosing elements incorporate much stone, but it is unclear if this ringfort is a cashel, or whether it is a rath whose banks were modified by incorporation into later field walls. Grass cover, with gorse along the scarp to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on an E-W rise or low ridge, providing good views to N and S. This enclosure, possibly a rath, is shown on the 1919 OS 6-inch map as a roughly subcircular hachured area (diam. c. 30-35m), truncated at its W and N edges by later field boundaries. It has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level bar the hint of a curving scarp at S, merging with a natural fall of ground. There is a rath (MA062-055----) 130m to ENE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-055 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a thicket of overgrowth, on land planted with forestry, located on a low E−W ridge. A roughly circular, raised area or platform (26.5m N-S; 29m E-W) defined at W−NW by an earthen bank (Wth 4-5m, int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.3m, at W), largely reduced elsewhere around the circuit to a scarp (ext. H 1.8m at E, 2.8m at N). Outside the bank/scarp it is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 3.6m, at E and SSW) with an external bank (Wth 7-8m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.7m, at E and SSW). The external bank is quite substantial in appearance, and seems to be enhanced by the natural slope. The rath shows evidence of having been modified and incorporated into field walls associated with a vernacular farmstead, now ruined, which is located immediately to S. At N−NE the external bank has been removed, at E its outer edge is overlain by a straight N−S field fence, and on the SE arc the fosse and external bank are truncated by a now ruined/collapsed field wall on a NE−SW axis. The W arc of the fosse and external bank is incorporated into a trackway that continues to N and S beyond the rath: The fosse was used as the route of the track and the external bank was adapted to serve as a field fence by revetting its inner slope with drystone facing. The ruins of a small stone-built vernacular building abut the external face of the external bank at SSW. The interior is level. A low area or gap (Wth 3m) in the enclosing scarp at SE has a ramp-like slope, flanked on the S side by a large stone. This may be an original entrance. At the extreme E of the interior, a straight E-facing scarp (H 0.7m), on a roughly N-S axis, cuts across the top of the rath bank/scarp; this is probably the result of modification of the rath in the modern era. The rath is engulfed in dense blackthorn, hawthorn, ash trees and brambles. Several animal burrows are evident. A possible rath (MA062-054----) is located c. 130m to WSW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

• MA062-056 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise, overlooking a flat expanse of pasture and bog to S−SW. This possible rath is shown on the 1837 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m); on the 1919 edition a quarry pit truncates the NW quadrant. The quarry was extended later in the 20th century resulting in the destruction of the enclosure. In 1992 in advance of the construction of the N5 Swinford by-pass, four test trenches were excavated to determine if any remains of an enclosing fosse survived (Walsh, 1993; 1992:142 Cloonlara Mayo https://excavations.ie/report/1992/Mayo/0001338/). No features or finds of archaeological importance were uncovered. There is an enclosure (MA062-054----) and a rath (MA062-055----) on an E-W ridge, 240m to NW and 220m to N, respectively. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonlara, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_610 (ZIP).

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.

• Cloonlara, Swinford7 sales

Name

Cloonlara · Cluain Lára

Area

1,985,683 m² (198.57 ha, 490.67 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Swineford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,629 people lived in 1,062 households in the Swineford electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydrum, Cloonacannana, Cloonaghboy, Cuillaun, Esker, Rathscanlan

Placenames

Cloonlara 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.