Cloonycarran More
Townland in the civil parish of Lissonuffy, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 107.6 ha
- 266 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 15,018 m² (1.5 ha, 3.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonycarran More, from 57 m² to 163,533 m² (16.35 ha, 40.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Cloonycarran More 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cloonycarran More in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Cloonycarran More.
Recorded monuments
- RO029-104 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of the gentle W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.8m NW-SE; 32m NE-SW) defined by an overgrown flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.8m at NE to 7m at NW; Wth of top 2.2-3.1m; int. H 0.2m at NW to 0.8m at NE; ext. H 0.6m at NE to 1.6m at SE), which is reduced to a scarp W-NW. There is no identifiable original entrance or fosse, although a pond (dims 25m E-W; 5m N-S; D 1.2m) has been dug outside the perimeter NW-NE. Earthwork (RO029-107----) is c. 130m to the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-105 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of the gentle NW-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. Subcircular overgrown area (dims 39m E-W; 35m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-3.3m; int. H 1.1-1.4m; ext. H 1.2-1.6m) and an outer fosse (at E: Wth of top 3.5m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.4m) NNW-E-SW. There is an entrance (Wth 2m) at SE, and a drystone wall (Wth 0.5m; H 0.5m) is built on top of the bank all around. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-106 Ringfort - rath
Description
At the N end of a low S-N spur at the W foothills of Slieve Bawn. Circular overgrown area (diam. 40.9m E-W; 38.9m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3-5.9m; int. H 0.3m at E to 1.1m at W; ext. H 0.6m at E to 1.6-1.9m generally). There is no visible fosse or identifiable original entrance. Earthwork (RO029-107----) is c. 170m to the SW and arth (RO029-108----) is c. 140m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-107 Earthwork
Description
Marked as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Rath (RO029-104----) is c. 130m to the NW, rath (RO029-106----) is c. 170m to the NE, and rath (RO029-108----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-108 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. Circular scrub-covered area (diam. 40m N-S; 39m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.6-3m; int. H 0.5-0.7m; ext. H 1.2-1.3m) and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3.7-3.8m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.5-0.8m). There is an entrance (Wth 1.6m), probably modern, at WSW. Earthwork (RO029-107----) is 100m to the W, rath (RO029-106----) is c. 140m to the N, and rath (RO029-109----) is c. 100m to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO029-109 Ringfort - rath
Description
Towards the bottom of the W-facing slope of Slieve Bawn. Circular rush and grass-covered area (diam. 38m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an overgrown, round-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.4-4.5m; int. H 0.4m at N to 1.6m at W; ext. H 0.9-1.1m), which is incorporated into a field bank SE-SW and almost reduced to a scarp at NW and NE, and a fosse (Wth of top 3.8-6.7m; Wth of base 2.3-2.8m; D 0.5-0.9m). There is no identifiable entrance. Rath (RO029-108----) is c. 100m to the N, and rath (RO029-110----) is c. 180m to the S. 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 Cloonycarran More.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonycarran More.
- 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 Cloonycarran More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonycarran More
- Area
- 1,076,048 m² (107.6 ha, 265.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lissonuffy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Killavackan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killavackan electoral division: 229 people in 89 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghadangan, Carroward, Cloonycarran Beg, Kilmacananneny, Lismeehy, Lissaphobble
- Placenames
- Cloonycarran More 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.