Cloonard

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonard, from 17 m² to 175,831 m² (17.58 ha, 43.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Cloonard 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 Cloonard 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

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonard.

Recorded monuments

• RO020-019001 Church
  Description

  Listed as Clonard in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (CDI vol. 5, 224) and situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Traditionally the burial place of the Mac Dermot Gall of Airtech (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 87; Mac Dermot 1996, 299). The grass-covered foundations of part of the S (L 5.m) and E (L 2.1m) walls of a church are at the centre of a rectangular graveyard (RO020-019002-) (dims. 32m E-W; 28m N-S) which is defined by a masonry wall and which contains 19th and 20th century headstones. A plain latin cross (RO020-0190004-) (H 0.5m; Wth 0.43m) of granite (Wth of shaft 0.22m; T 0.03m) and a T-shaped cross (RO020-019005-) (H 0.8m; Wth 0.83m) of shale (Wth of shaft 0.28m; T 0.05m) are in the graveyard. The site of Cloonard Abbey (RO020-019003-), of which is little is known other than its designation on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and of which nothing is visible, is immediately adjacent to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-019002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. A rectangular graveyard (dims 32m E-W; 28m N-S) which is defined by masonry walls which contains 19th and 20th century headstones at the site of church (RO020-019001-). Traditionally, this is the burial place of the Mac Dermot Gall (Mac Dermot 1996, 299). A plain latin cross (RO020-019004-) and a T-shaped cross (RO020-019005-) are in the graveyard. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-019003 Ecclesiastical site
  Description

  Situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. The site of Cloonard Abbey, of which little is known other than its designation on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and of which nothing is visible, is immediately adjacent to the W of church site (RO020-019001-). Saint Aodh Fionn of Cloonard was one of seven sons of Caol Uí Oilealla in Co. Sligo, and he may have founded an early church here. These brothers may the same as the sons of Caolbhadh, noted in the martyrologies at 24 April (Ó Riain 2011, 71). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 9 April 2018

• RO020-019004 Cross
  Description

  A plain latin cross (H 0.5m; Span 0.43m) of granite (Wth of shaft 0.22m; T 0.03m) is within the area of the church (RO020-019001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-019005 Cross
  Description

  A plain T-shaped cross (H 0.8m; Span 0.83m) of shale (Wth of shaft 0.28m; T 0.05m) is in the E part of the graveyard (RO020-019002-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-019006 Architectural fragment
  Description

  A pers. Comm. from M.A. Timoney (c. 1994) says that there are dressed stones in the graveyard wall, but none were noted, although there was dense growth around parts of the walls. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO020-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the gentle E-facing slope at the SE end of a NW-SE ridge. Described in 1995 as a circular grass-covered area (diam. 47m E-W; 43.7m N-S) defined by an overgrown and poached earthen bank (Wth 3.1-3.8m; int. H 0.9-1.1m; ext. H 0.3m at S to 1.9m at N) ESE-S and SSW-W-NNE, which was incorporated into a field bank WSW-N but reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m) NNE-S. There was no visible fosse or entrance. Later, sections of the bank were removed S-SW (L 18m) and N-NE (L 12). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonard, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Cloonard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Cloonard · Cluain Ard

Area

1,447,850 m² (144.79 ha, 357.77 acres)

Civil parish

Tibohine, and its townlands

Barony

Frenchpark

Electoral division

Fairymount, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 134 households in the Fairymount electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalour, Ballyglass East, Cloonarragh, Coolagarry, Kilgarve, Lissananny, Tawnyrover

Placenames

Cloonard 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.