Cloonmahaan
Cloonmahaan is a townland in the civil parish of Elphin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 72.4 ha
- 179 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 23,108 m² (2.31 ha, 5.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmahaan, from 65 m² to 59,937 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Cloonmahaan 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
6 Jul 2020Conditional
for demolition of existing derelict dwelling and to erect a new slatted unit, storage tank and all neccessary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20256
10 Feb 2020N/a
to demolish existing derelict dwelling and erect a new slated unit, storage tanks and all necessary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2047
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 Cloonmahaan.
Recorded monuments
- RO022-086 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located on the S-facing slope of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 57.5m E-W; 52.3m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.5-7m; int. H 0.7-1.2m; ext. H 0.8m at E to 1.7m at W) W-N-SE which is reduced to a scarp (H 2m) elsewhere, with a fosse (Wth of top 5.4-7m; Wth of base 1-1.7m; D 1.1-1.4m) WNW-NE. The probable entrance (Wth 1.5m) is at W, and the monument is bisected by a N-S field wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO022-091 Crannog
Description
Attached to the W end of the N shore of Lough Patrick (dims. c. 430m E-W; c. 50-150m N-S), which has a marl bottom. Circular overgrown area (diam. 10m; H 0.8m) on which animal bones are found. Crannog (RO022-092----) is c. 250m to the E. See the attached view taken from the shore to the N. 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 Cloonmahaan.
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 Cloonmahaan, 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 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 Cloonmahaan.
- 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 Cloonmahaan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonmahaan
- Area
- 724,254 m² (72.43 ha, 178.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Elphin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Cloonyquin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 255 people lived in 95 households in the Cloonyquin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cammoge, Cloonyquin, Corrabaun, Corracreigh, Foxborough
- Placenames
- Cloonmahaan 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.