Cloonfane

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonfane, from 79 m² to 74,897 m² (7.49 ha, 18.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Cloonfane 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.

• 28 Aug 2026N/a

  The development will consist of the demolition of the existing agricultural sheds and the construction of a new dwelling house, with an on-site packaged treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated ancillary site works. Proposed finished floor level 112.0m AOD, Proposed ridge height 117.075m AOD

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660688

• 15 Aug 2025Conditional

  construct a dwelling house and garage, and to install a tertiary wastewater treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25339

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  Construction of a dwelling house, new tertiary treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460580

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, new tertiary treatment system and percolation area including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23283

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 Cloonfane.

Recorded monuments

• MA063-026 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, boxed into a small triangular field, located on a low rise. Circular area (c. 27m N-S) defined by a stony bank (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m), reduced to a scarp (H 1.45m at S) at SE−S. The bank/scarp is topped with stone, and remnants of external stone facing are evident at E and S. It is unclear to what extent this is original walling or the result of later modification. At the NE and NW the bank is incorporated into the line of later field walls. Overgrowth made inspection of the interior difficult. There is much stone scattered throughout. Roughly in the centre of the interior there is a gently raised area (diam. c. 5-6m), the S edge of which is defined by an E-W row of at least four medium-sized stones. The significance of this feature is uncertain, but it is possible that it relates to a souterrain ('cave') (MA063-026001), which according to local tradition is located somewhere in the interior. The cashel is engulfed in a dense thicket of hawthorn, ash, holly, and surrounded by loose heaps of field clearance stone. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-026001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a cashel (MA063-026----). According to local tradition, there is souterrain in the cashel. A slight rise (diam. c. 5-6m) in the centre of the cashel interior is defined on its S edge by a row of c. 4 medium-sized stones. This may indicated the location of the souterrain. Otherwise there is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-027 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, at a farmstead. A small circular feature, possibly a mound (diam. c. 10m), bordered on the W by NW−SE field boundary, is shown on the 1838 0S 6-inch map; it is not indicated on the 1920 edition, where a farmstead is shown on or adjacent to the location. No visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-028001 Burial ground
  Description

  In a cashel (MA063-028001). A burial ground is indicated in the cashel on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. The cashel interior is bisected, slightly S of centre, by a stone wall (Wth 0.8m; H 0.8m) on an E-W axis. To S of the bisecting wall, several small, low upright uninscribed stone slabs protrude from the ground. They appear to be grave markers. The area in general is strewn with much stone, and largely obscured by blackthorn. According to local information the burials were mainly of unbaptised babies. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-028002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, encompassing a natural rise, bordered to the S by an area of low-lying, wet ground, beyond which the ground rises to a low ridge. A house is located immediately to the NE. Roughly circular area (30m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.3m at SW, 2.8m at E; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.8m), and enclosed at SE−NW by remnants of an outer wall with an intervening gap or fosse (Wth 4-5m). The cashel has been incorporated into a later system of field walls. The inner wall, composed of rough field stones, is of drystone construction, and is similar in appearance, though more substantial, to adjacent field walls. It is best preserved SE−SSW where sections of the external stone facing, incorporating large boulders, remain intact. Elsewhere much of the exterior wall face has collapsed to a loose tumble of stones. At NNW−NE the wall survives only as a low, sod-covered rise, bordered on its outer edge by later field walls, and at NE−SE it has been incorporated into/overlain by a later field wall. The outer wall survives mainly as a low, sod-covered stony rise, with a basal row of large stones visible at NW. It is partly obscured by a growth of scrub. The outer wall has been levelled on the NE arc, and a house, shed and later field walls partly overlie this area. There is no clearly defined entrance. The current access is at the W through a collapsed section of wall. The interior appears to be at a slightly higher level in the SW quadrant, with a gentle slope down from there to the N. It is bisected, slightly S of centre, by a stone wall (Wth 0.8m; H 0.8m) on an E-W axis. The interior was used as a burial ground (MA063-028001-). The enclosing walls are ringed with blackthorn scrub and ferns, which also encroach on the interior, especially at the S and W. The N half of the interior is relatively open and grassy. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-029001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, in a thicket of brambles and ferns, located on a low NW−SE rise with a gradual fall of ground to N. A circular embanked enclosure is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; a souterrain (MA063-029002-), indicated as ‘Cave’, in shown in its centre; on the 1920 edition only the ‘Cave’ is shown. When inspected in 1996 the area was obscured by overgrowth, but no upstanding remains of the ringfort were evident at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• MA063-029002 Souterrain
  Description

  In ringfort (MA063-029001-). A souterrain, indicated as ‘Cave’ is shown in the centre of the ringfort on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A grassed-over rectangular depression (L 3m; Wth 0.8-1m; D 0.3m at NE, 0.8m at SW) is evident at ground surface, extending for 3m on a NE−SW axis. This represents a length of roofless, collapsed souterrain passage. At its deeper SW end two large slabs, displaced lintels, tip into the depression, and an in situ lintel covers an opening into an intact length of passage (Wth 1m) with drystone walls and lintel roofing, which extends to SW for several meters. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Cloonfane National School, school, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey national school, built 1889; extant 1895, on a symmetrical plan with pair of single-bay single-storey gabled projecting lower porches. "Improved", 1932, producing present composition. Closed, 1979. Now disused. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roofs to porches with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls centred on inscribed drag edged rusticated cut-limestone plaque. Square-headed window openings to front (north) elevation centred on paired camber-headed window openings with drag edged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings with fittings now boarded-up. Square-headed window openings (remainder) with drag edged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-nine timber sash windows with timber casement windows to rear (south) elevation. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_892 (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 Cloonfane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cloonfane · Cluain Féan

Area

1,075,203 m² (107.52 ha, 265.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Kilbeagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilbeagh electoral division: 1,068 people in 435 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barroe, Cappulcorragh, Cashelduff, Cloonmeen West, Fauleens, Gowel

Placenames

Cloonfane 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.