Cloontally

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloontally, from 644 m² to 209,504 m² (20.95 ha, 51.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Cloontally 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 Cloontally 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
• Special Protection Area: Lough Conn and Lough Cullin SPA 004228
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Conn And Lough Cullin 000519

Recorded monuments

• MA039-003 Castle - motte
  Description

  In pasture, located on a small headland projecting into the NE end of Lough Conn. A 20m wide strip of flat rocky ground, wooded with ash and hazel trees, now separates the motte from the lake edge. The N side of the headland, c. 150m from the castle, is bordered by a stream-fed inlet of wet ground. Gently rising pastureland stretches to E-SE. This motte is named ‘Castle Kelly (in Ruins)’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a substantially raised, roughly circular flat-topped mound/platform (diam. 20-25m; H 4.8m) enclosed at its base at N–SE by a broad fosse (Wth top c. 8m, base c. 3m; ext. D 1.7m, at N). On the outer edge of the fosse at N there is a broad, low poorly defined rise; this may be the remnants of an external bank, but it cannot be traced elsewhere. The platform has broadly sloping sides (Wth slope 10m) on the E half, but on the W half the sides drop almost vertically, and have an eroded appearance. This suggest that in the past the lake waters reached the base of the motte on its W side. There is no surface evidence for a fosse on this side. The flat top (14-15m N–S; 11m E–W) of the platform retains remnants of an enclosing wall on it outer edge at N–E. The wall is evident as low sod-covered wall footings (Wth 0.6-1m; H 0.4m). Loose stone is visible protruding from the slopes of the platform on its E arc, probably tumble from the wall. Remnants of a building stand on the SE side of the platform top: Two walls, in an L-shaped arrangement, represent the W and N walls of a small rectangular or subrectangular building. The W wall (L 7.5m; Wth 1.1m; H 0.5m) retains two intact courses of external stone facing; the N wall (L 4.7m E–W) survives as a low, sod-covered stony rise, which extends E as far as the edge of the platform. A sod-covered conglomeration of stones lodged on the E slope of the platform may be a tumbled section of masonry wall from the building. At the base of the SE slope of the platform, beneath the building, a narrow, stony causeway-like feature (Wth 2.5m) extends SSE from the platform. It is bordered on the E side by the fosse, and on the W side is faced by stone walling, which is part of a field wall extending SE along the shoreline. Low surface undulations are visible immediately to E of the platform on an area of level gently elevated ground, but there is no clear evidence for a bailey. There is a rath (MA039-004----) c. 300m to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gently elevated ground on the NE side of Lough Conn. The low elevation extends 300m to W, forming a small headland projecting into the lake, with a motte (MA039-003----) sited on the lake edge. A canalised stream flows into the lake at a small inlet c. 100m NE of the rath. To E ground falls away gently to expanses of lowlying flat, damp pasture. This rath has been levelled, but it is possible to trace the outline of a circular area enclosed by two outer banks with two intervening fosses. The central, slightly raised circular area (29m N–S; 28m E–W) is defined by a low, broadly-slumped scarp (Wth slope 3m; H 0.35-0.5m). It is encircled by a shallow depression (Wth 3-4m), indicating an infilled fosse. On the outer edge of the fosse, there is a bank, levelled now to a very low, broad rise (Wth 3-4m). Outside this a second fosse (W c. 2.5m) with an external bank (Wth 3-4m) can be traced as undulation at S–NNW, barely discernible elsewhere. A break in the enclosing elements at ENE, may indicate the location of the entrance. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 September 2019

• MA039-031 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, 100m from the NE shoreline of Lough Conn. This enclosure is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular rath-like enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as a hachured, subcircular enclosure within a wooded, fenced off area. It has been levelled. There is no visible trace at ground level, but the outline of a subcircular cropmark (31m E–W; 26m N–S) is visible in aerial views. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_359 (ZIP).

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

Name

Cloontally · Cluain Taithligh

Area

693,309 m² (69.33 ha, 171.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbelfad, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Carrowmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowmore electoral division: 896 people in 323 households; 88% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappanaglogh, Cloonacauna, Knockfree, Wherrew

Placenames

Cloontally 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.