Cloonbard
Townland in the civil parish of Baslick, barony of Castlereagh, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 267.8 ha
- 662 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 15,951 m² (1.6 ha, 3.94 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbard, from 308 m² to 585,034 m² (58.5 ha, 144.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonbard 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Cloonbard 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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonbard.
Recorded monuments
- RO021-043001 Enclosure
Description
Marked as a D-shaped field (dims c. 90m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) with the straight side at the SE on the 1837 and 1929 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. An arc (C 72m NE-SW) of a grass-covered stony bank (at N: Wth 5.6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.3m) SW-W-NE surmounted by a drystone wall surrounds a farmyard, but while there is a local tradition of its use as a childrens' burial ground (RO021-043002-) there is no evidence of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-043002 Children's burial ground
Description
Situated towards the bottom of an E-facing slope. There is a local tradition of the use of enclosure (RO021-043001-) as a burial ground for infants, but there is no evidence of burial. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO021-044 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a circular feature (diam. c. 40m) and situated towards the bottom of the N-facing slope of a low NW-SE ridge. It was described in 1963 as a sub-rectangular area defined by a slight bank and wide fosse (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture, but is visible as a circular area (int. diam. c. 45m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by what might be two fosse features on OSI aerial images (2005, 2018). Bowl-barrow (RO021-058----) is c. 170m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 29 November 2018
- RO021-058 Barrow - bowl-barrow
Description
Marked only on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the crest of a low NW-SE ridge. Circular, flat-topped and grass-covered mound (diam. of base 13m NW-SE; diam. of top 7m NE-SW; 6.8 NW-SE; H 1.4-1.6m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.2m) E-S which is visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2-3m) S-N, but the fosse and the base of the mound are truncated by a WNW-ESE road bank at NE (max. ext. diam. 20.5m NW-SE). Rath (RO021-044----) is c. 170m to the NW. 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 Cloonbard.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1139 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonbard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonbard
- Area
- 2,678,215 m² (267.82 ha, 661.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Baslick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlereagh
- Electoral division
- Baslick, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Baslick electoral division: 147 people in 55 households; 93% of households own their home; 18% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Baslick, Brackloon, Cloonarragh, Cloonsheever, Lissananny, Moor, Termon Beg, Tonrevagh
- Placenames
- Cloonbard 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.