Cloonagh
Townland in the civil parish of Dromard, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Chluanach
- Area
- 384.9 ha
- 951 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 61,741 m² (6.17 ha, 15.26 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonagh, from 3,088 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) to 122,905 m² (12.29 ha, 30.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Cloonagh 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
23 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) Demolish existing gable end flat roof annex; (2) construct new extension to gable end of existing dwelling house; (3) carry out all necessary alterations and refurbishment works to existing dwelling house; (4) construct new domestic garage; (5) relocate existing vehicular entrance; (6) upgrade existing septic tank with the installation of new effluent treatment system and percolation area together with the carrying out of all associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560440
31 Jan 2024Conditional
a. renovation and extension of the existing dwelling, b. installation of new wastewater treatment system & percolation area, c. installation of a new, replacement well for domestic use, d. installation of a new garage/workshop for domestic use, e. retention of the existing vehicular access, modification of the existing lane way within the site boundaries and associated landscaping works, f. all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2460029
22 Aug 2023N/a
development consisting of the following: to upgrade existing entrance roadway, together with permission to rebuild existing derelict stone building, including walls, roof and exterior doors and windows (back to original form). Buildings are to utilised as examples of traditional 'Famine - era houses' (to be rebuilt utilising traditional methods)
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2380
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 Cloonagh.
Recorded monuments
- SL019-083 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in level pasture at the base of a ridge. Raised oval-shaped area (dims. 36.6m NW-SE; 29.7m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (H 1.6m) with traces of a bank of earth and stone at its upper edge from SE-SSE-S (Wth. 3.5m; int. H 0.75m). At the foot of the scarp from S-W-N is a broad, very shallow depression (Wth. 4.3m). From N-NNE-NE this becomes narrower and less easily indentifiable (Wth. c.3m). Scarp and bank have been incorporated into the field boundary. Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonagh.
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 high, 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 Cloonagh.
- 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 Cloonagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonagh · An Chluanach
- Area
- 3,848,906 m² (384.89 ha, 951.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Dromard West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromard West electoral division: 207 people in 66 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabragh, Carroward, Carrowbleagh West, Carrownamaddoo, Drumnagoal, Lavagh, Ross, Spring Garden, Tawnatrohaun, Toorard
- Placenames
- Cloonagh 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.