Clooneen
Townland in the civil parish of Athleague, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 292 ha
- 721 acres
- Land parcels
- 84
- registered freehold, median 11,939 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 41 m² to 341,901 m² (34.19 ha, 84.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 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 Clooneen 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
19 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for the development of a “Living Landscape Walk” the development will include the following: • Construction of an accessible walking route linking the Circle of Life Park with a new memorial garden, viewing areas and recreational amenities. • Provision of new pedestrian pathways including no-dig pathways, upgraded farm tracks, raised walkways and boardwalk structures. • Construction of a new pedestrian suspension bridge across the River Suck, including bridge supports, abutments, balustrades and associated infrastructure. • Provision of a bird hide, viewing deck, seating areas, interpretation features and visitor infrastructure. • Provision of a memorial garden including landscape works, planting, seating and associated amenities. • Installation of gates, fencing, access controls, wayfinding signage and visitor information throughout the route. • Provision of biodiversity enhancement measures including native planting, habitat creation and ecological mitigation works. • Upgrade works to existing access tracks including resurfacing, drainage improvements and associated accessibility measures. • Associated flood management, drainage, landscaping, site development and ancillary works. The proposed development is located within the River Suck Callows Special Protection Area (SPA) (Site Code 004097) and the Suck River Callows Natural Heritage Area (NHA) (Site Code 000222). The proposed development passes through the recorded earthworks (RO041-048010) and the combined Zone of Notification associated with this and adjacent recorded monuments, comprising a road/trackway (RO041-048009), ford (RO041-048006), graveyard (RO041-048015), mills (RO041-048003 and RO041-048004), church (RO041-048007), castle (RO041-048001), fortified house (RO041-048005), bawn (RO041-048002) and walled garden (RO041-048014). A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the Planning Application at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660425
9 Mar 2026Conditional
Retention Permission for extension as constructed to rear and side of dwelling which differs to extension previously granted planning permission under ref. PD/13/286 and for store which includes domestic garage, general store, utility room, adjacent to original stores to rear of dwelling at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2615
26 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for development consisting of: a) The demolishing of an existing rear annex and the construction of a new extension to the rear of the existing house. b) The construction of a new detached garage and all ancillary site works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2460558
3 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission for a change of house plan consequent to PD/21/180 to that previously granted for the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house, construct a garage, waste water treatment system, close two existing roadside entrances, create new roadside entrance and associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2328
12 Apr 2021Conditional
to construct an extension to an existing dwelling house, construct a garage, waste water treatment system, close two existing roadside entrances, create new roadside entrance and associated siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 21180
25 Mar 2021N/a
to construct an extension to an existing dwelling house, construct a garage, waste water treatment system, close two existing roadside entrances, create new roadside entrance & associated siteworks at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21148
25 Nov 2019Conditional
permission to change shed designs granted under PD/16/39 from 4 bay slatted shed with calf creep and loose pen area to slatted sheep shed together with all associated site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19612
26 Jun 2019Conditional
for demolition of existing rear extension, construction of a new single storey rear extension to include renovation of existing dwelling house and all ancillary works at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19330
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: Ballinturly Turlough SAC 000588
- Special Protection Area: River Suck Callows SPA 004097
- Natural Heritage Area: Suck River Callows NHA 000222
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinturly Turlough 000588
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clooneen.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooneen.
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 5 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_1307 (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 Clooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Clooneen
- Area
- 2,919,613 m² (291.96 ha, 721.45 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athleague, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Athleague West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Athleague West electoral division: 610 people in 245 households; 69% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athleague, Ballinturly, Bellanacarrow, Carrowreagh, Castlestrange, Cloonykelly, Cloonyourish, Coollusty
- Placenames
- Clooneen 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.