Cloonbigny

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbigny, from 443 m² to 209,540 m² (20.95 ha, 51.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Cloonbigny 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission for the demolition of existing domestic shed and partial demolition of walls to existing house, and the construction of new extensions along with minor alterations to two storey dwelling house with a new proposed entrance from existing road, and for the decommissioning of existing septic tank onsite and the installation of a proprietary treatment system with percolation area and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660446

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct 3 bay slatted shed with lie back together with associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21134

• 1 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18545

• 11 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed and a loose housing shed to include concrete aprons and all associated works at the above location at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 18232

• 8 Mar 2018Refused

  Planning permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18106

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 Cloonbigny.

Recorded monuments

• RO050-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the crest of a slight N-S ridge at the S end. Circular grass-covered area with some bushes (diam. 32m NE-WSW; 29m NNW-SSE) defined by an eroded earthen bank (Wth 4.7-5.5m; int. H 0.1m generally to 0.5m at N (upslope); ext. H 0.1m generally to 0.5m at S), which is overlain by a field wall SSW-NW. There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  This is a castle of the Keoghs, probably dating from the 15th century, through Tadhg, son of Nicol Óg, grandson of Diarmuid Mór O'Kelly (O'Donovan 1843, 125-6). However, by 1585 Cloonbigny was owned by John Moore, a government official from Athlone, but its possessions may have been as extensive as the later estate of the Moores’ (Moore 1974-5; 1978, 61). It was owned by William Moore in 1640 and Col. Garrett Moore in the 1660s (Simington 1949, 105). It is situated on a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. The S corner of a tower house survives with a base-batter and copious cairn material, whose SE wall is abutted by the NW wall of the fortified house (RO050-019002-). The entrance was on the SE wall with a vaulted guard room to the NE and the destroyed newel stairs was in the S angle. The tower house is at the S angle of a bawn (RO050-019003-) (int. dims c. 31m NE-SW; c. 28m NW-SE) defined by wall foundations (Wth 0.9m) and a stone spread (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3m). A cairn (diam. 5m; max. H 1m) at the N angle is the remains of a circular mural tower (RO050-019004-), and there are the foundation of a gateway (RO050-019005-) (Wth of passage 3m; L 9m) straddling the centre of the NW wall. There are the foundations of a building (RO050-019006-) (int. dims c. 8m x c. 6m) against the inside of the NE bawn wall and of a building (RO050-019007-) (int. dims c. 10m x c. 4m) against the inside of the SW bawn wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. The Keogh property of Cloonbigney had been acquired by John Moore, an English official from Athlone, by 1585 (Moore 1978, 61), and he may have built the house against the remains of the Keogh tower house (RO050-019001-). A structure at Clonbingney is marked on the Strafford map of c. 1636 (Simington 1949, Athlone), and 105 acres there together with the castle were owned by William Moore in 1641. William owned over 2000 acres in Taughmaconnell parish, but about 1350 acres were described as wood or bog. The land was largely in Cloonbigny, Carrowreagh, Carrownure and Clomadrone (Cloonaddron), and in the 1660s was mostly owned by Colonel Garrett Moore, as was the property in Cloonbigny (ibid. 105-06). The Moores were no longer among the principal families in the parish by the 19th century (Lewis 1837, 2, 585-6). This is a four bay, two storey and attic house (ext. dims 17.4m NE-SW; 7.1m NW-SE) and survives complete with good quoins, except much of the NW wall which probably contained the entrance. There are fireplaces in the NE and SW gable walls at both floors with an oven in the SW wall at ground floor, and there are three diamond-shaped chimney stacks rising from each gable. There are the remains of dormer windows in the SE wall. The house abuts the SE wall of tower house (RO050-019001-), whose newel stairs it used to access the first floor. It may have been constructed from the stones of the tower house and utilised the bawn also. A structure (int. dims 15.15m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SW) NE of the house and outside the SE wall of the original bawn is later than both, but it has an entrance (Wth 1.15m) into the bawn where it abuts the house. (Craig 1982, fig. 94) See the attached images taken from the S, SE and inside the NE gable. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 27 November, 2015

• RO050-019003 Bawn
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. Cloonbigny tower house (RO050-019001-) is at the S angle of a bawn (int. dims 31m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) defined by wall foundations (Wth 0.9m) and a stone spread (Wth c. 2m; H 0.3m). A cairn at the N angle of the bawn is the remains of a circular mural tower (RO050-019004-), and there are the foundations of a gateway (RO050-019005-) straddling the centre of the NW wall. The foundations of a building (RO050-019006-) are inside the NE bawn wall and another building (RO050-019007-) is inside the SW bawn wall. A rectangular structure (RO050-019008-) NE of the house (RO050-019002-) and outside the original SE wall of the bawn is later than both, but it has an entrance (Wth 1.15m) into the bawn where it abuts the house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019005 Gatehouse
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. There are the foundations of a gateway (Wth of passage 3m; L 9m) straddling the centre of the NW wall of the bawn (RO050-019003-) of Cloonbigny tower house (RO050-019001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019006 Building
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. There are the foundations of a building (int. dims c. 8m x c. 6m) against the inside of the NE wall of the bawn (RO050-019003-) of Cloonbigny tower house (RO050-019001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019007 Building
  Description

  On a slight rise in a low-lying landscape with lower ground to the E and S. There are the foundations of a building (int. dims c. 10m x c. 4m) against the inside of the SW wall of the bawn (RO050-019003-) of Cloonbigny tower house (RO050-019001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO050-019008 Structure
  Description

  On a fairly steep SE-facing slope with lower ground to the E and S. A structure (int. dims 15.15m NE-SW; 9.5m NW-SW) NE of the fortified house (RO050-019002-) and outside the original bawn (RO050-019003-) is later than both, but it has an entrance (Wth 1.15m) into the bawn where its NW wall abuts the house. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 November, 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cloonbigny, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cloonbigny

Area

1,484,568 m² (148.46 ha, 366.84 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmaconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Carrowreagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

554 people lived in 189 households in the Carrowreagh electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Camlagh, Carrownure, Carrowreagh, Cloonkeen, Glenmore

Placenames

Cloonbigny 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.