Clooncunny
Clooncunny is a townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. Its name in Irish is Cluain Connaidh.
- Area
- 157.7 ha
- 390 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 15,972 m² (1.6 ha, 3.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooncunny, from 419 m² to 123,320 m² (12.33 ha, 30.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Clooncunny 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
27 Apr 2026Conditional
Permission for 1. to refurbish derelict house to include alterations to elevations. 2. to install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660189
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Annaghmore Lough (Roscommon) SAC 001626
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Annaghmore Lough (Roscommon) 001626
Recorded monuments
- RO022-095 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a large circular embanked enclosure (max. ext. diam. c. 70m) described as 'Lissachutty' on the 1837, 1914 and 1927 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low E-W ridge with a W-E stream c. 80m to the S. It is overlain by a N-S field bank towards the perimeter at W, and only survives W of this feature as a chord (C c. 30m) of an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m) often reduced to a scarp (H 0.7m) SW-NW. There is no visible fosse (original diam. c. 50m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-096 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Marked as a circular feature (diam. c. 15m) on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low E-W ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 15.3m E-W; 14.5m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.2m at N to 0.4-0.6m generally) with five mature deciduous trees on the perimeter. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-146 Burial
Description
On a level landscape. At least five inhumations oriented E-W were uncovered in 1972 at a depth of c. 0.9m when a road was being straightened. Some of the remains were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland (Sikora and Cahill 2011, vol. 2, P 510, 7.179). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 March, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooncunny.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Clooncunny, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clooncunny.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Clooncunny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Clooncunny · Cluain Connaidh
- Area
- 1,577,022 m² (157.7 ha, 389.69 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Annaghmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 304 people lived in 124 households in the Annaghmore electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghmore, Carrigeenagappul, Clooncor, Corrabaun, Corraslira, Drumman, Laghtcausk
- Placenames
- Clooncunny 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.