Cloongreaghan
Townland in the civil parish of Ardcarn, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 138.3 ha
- 342 acres
- Land parcels
- 106
- registered freehold, median 5,022 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
106 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloongreaghan, from 147 m² to 165,769 m² (16.58 ha, 40.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 53 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 Cloongreaghan 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
2 Sept 2026N/a
Permission to replace an existing septic tank system with an onsite sewerage system With polishing filter In accordance with EPA Code of Practice 2021 To service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660456
31 Aug 2026N/a
Permission for the proposed replacement of an existing septic tank system with an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter in accordance with EPA code of practice 2021 to service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660447
17 Feb 2023Conditional
Permission for development consisting of renovation and extensions to existing dwelling house, includes the removal and replacement of existing internal floors, partitions, staircase, roof, and removal of back porch, and the construction of new porch to the main entrance, side and rear extensions, upgrade the existing septic tank to new wastewater treatment plant at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2349
31 Jan 2023N/a
Permission for the renovations and extensions to existing dwelling house and upgrade existing septic tank to new One 2 Clean Wastewater Treatment Plant with percolation area and all site development works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2324
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 Cloongreaghan.
Recorded monuments
- RO007-003 Enclosure
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small oval enclosure (dims 18m N-; c. 10m E-W), and situated on a shelf of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 18m NE-SW; c. 10m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-1m) NE-S-SW which merges into the slope elsewhere. Rath (RO007-004----) is c. 150m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the lower W-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 27.5m-28m) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.3-3.5m; H 0.2-0.3m) E-S, an external scarp (H 0.2m generally to 0.9m at W) S-NW and a scarp down to the interior (H 0.5m at E) N-E. There is no visible fosse but the entrance (Wth 4m) is at SE, and the perimeter is truncated slightly by a NE-SW field bank at NW. Enclosure (RO007-003----) is c. 150m to the SW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO007-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
On top of a drumlin. Circular grass and scrub-covered area (diam. 31m E-W), which remains unplanted in a mixed wood, defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.15-0.9m; ext. H 1.1-1.4m) S-NNW and scarp (H 1-1.2m) N-E-SSE, with an outer fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; D 0.1-0.2m) at NW and SE. There is no identifiable original entrance. 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 Cloongreaghan.
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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1420 (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 Cloongreaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloongreaghan
- Area
- 1,382,856 m² (138.29 ha, 341.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardcarn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Tumna South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tumna South electoral division: 207 people in 89 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 16% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clegna, Cooladye, Derrygirraun, Drumsillagh, Glooria
- Placenames
- Cloongreaghan 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.