Cloonmurray
Cloonmurray is a townland in the civil parish of Killukin, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 109.6 ha
- 271 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 30,607 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonmurray, from 501 m² to 320,701 m² (32.07 ha, 79.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cloonmurray 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
4 Sept 2025Conditional
Retention Permission for as constructed farm tracks on farm lands, widening of existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2560422
9 Dec 2022Conditional
Retention Permission to retain as constructed extension to existing slatted shed. Permission to retain and complete new entrance and boundary wall to farm yard along with all ancillary site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22653
5 Oct 2022N/a
Retention Permission to retain as constructed extension to existing slatted shed; Permission to construct new entrance and boundary wall to farm yard along with all ancillary site development works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 22540
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ardakillin Lough 001617
Recorded monuments
- RO028-103 Crannog
Description
At the N end of the W shore of rectangular Ardakillin Lough (dims c. 500m E-W; c. 350m N-S), on the S bank of a W-E stream. The lake was much larger in the 19th century (dims c. 1.8km NE-SW; c. 350m NW-SE at NE to c. 600m NW-SE at SW), extending much further to the NE (1837 OS 6-inch map). Rectangular grass-covered mound (dims of base 18.8m E-W; 16m N-S; dims of top 11.5m E-W; 10m N-S; H 0.4m at E to 1.2m at W) with a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3-0.5m), probably re-deposited spoil, on the perimeter at S and W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO028-105 Crannog
Description
Marked as an island (diam. c. 15m) c. 35m from the SW angle of Ardakillin Lough (dims c. 500m E-W; c. 350m N-S) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated now on level ground c. 100m SW of the SW angle of the lake. The lake was much larger in the 19th century (dims c. 1.8km NE-SW; c. 350m NW-SE at NE to c. 600m NW-SE at SW), extending much further to the NE (1837 OS 6-inch map). It is not visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Cloonmurray.
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 Cloonmurray, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonmurray.
- 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 Cloonmurray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonmurray
- Area
- 1,096,476 m² (109.65 ha, 270.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killukin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Killukin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 190 people lived in 76 households in the Killukin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 24% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardakillin, Ballydaly, Cloonrane, Cloonybeirne, Derryphatten, Killukin, Sroove
- Placenames
- Cloonmurray 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.