Cloonarara

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonarara, from 899 m² to 106,335 m² (10.63 ha, 26.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloonarara 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.

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new access road facilitating access to existing forestry plantation. The proposed access road shall have a bell-mouth entrance at public road and back in type loading bay together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18417

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  for development consisting of the construction of a new access road facilitating access to existing forestry plantation. The proposed access road shall have a bell-mouth entrance at public road and an internal turn table together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 18420

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloonarara.

Recorded monuments

• SL032-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of a low ridge with a commanding view in all directions. A raised circular area (diam. c. 37m) enclosed by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 3.9m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.8m) SE-NNW and by a scarp (H 1.2m) elsewhere. There is a gap in the bank at NE and WSW. The rath is grass-covered. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL032-068 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a W-facing slope. A roughly circular area (diam. c. 37m) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m) and an external fosse (Wth c. 6m; D 0.2m) N-E; a hedgerow curving E-SW appears to follow the line of the defences. According to local information, the rath was levelled c. 1920s. The rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular area (diam. c. 40m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonarara.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cloonarara, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonarara.

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.

No address of the register names Cloonarara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cloonarara · Cluain an Reára

Area

1,061,523 m² (106.15 ha, 262.31 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Tobercurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

3,118 people lived in 1,190 households in the Tobercurry electoral division. 60% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass, Carnyara, Cloonaraher, Cloonbaniff, Lissaneagh, Pullagh

Placenames

Cloonarara 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.