Cloonbaniff
Cloonbaniff is a townland in the civil parish of Achonry, barony of Leyny, Co. Sligo. Its name in Irish is Cluain Banbh.
- Area
- 151.7 ha
- 375 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 6,154 m² (0.62 ha, 1.52 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonbaniff, from 67 m² to 414,066 m² (41.41 ha, 102.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Cloonbaniff 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
24 Apr 2025Conditional
To retain and complete works to our dwelling. We are applying for planning retention of, i) demolition of dwelling roof and chimney, ii) demolition of internal first floor, iii) demolition of flat roof front porch, iv) demolition of rear extension with lean to roof, v) partially constructed rear extension (blockwork partially completed), vi) partially constructed front porch works (foundation completed). We are applying for planning permission to, i) fully complete rear extension, ii) fully complete front porch, iii) construct new roof over the dwelling with raised eaves and ridge level, iv) raise internal floors and ceilings heights in-line with current building regulations, v) raise all existing ground and first floor windowsill and head levels in-line with new internal floor levels. All works as per drawings and documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Sligo County Council, 2560159
18 Mar 2025N/a
Planning Permission for i) demolition of pitched roof over the existing dwelling, ii) demolition of existing flat roof porch to the front elevation. Construction of i) rear extension with double height ceiling, ii) new single storey front porch with pitched roof iii) construction of new pitched roof over the entire dwelling with raised wall plate and ridge level, iv) raising of internal floors and ceilings heights inline with current building regulations, and v) raising all existing window sill and head levels inline with new internal floor levels and associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560103
28 Aug 2024Conditional
to install wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460274
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
- SL032-004001 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. A slightly raised circular area (25.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.05m) NW-NE and S-SW and by a scarp (H 0.6m) SE-S. The bank is levelled along the E arc. There are numerous gaps in the bank. A small quarry cuts into rath at W. There is a souterrain (SL032-004002-) in the SSW portion of the interior. 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
- SL032-004002 Souterrain
Description
In the SSW portion of a rath (SL032-004001-). A drystone-built chamber (2.7m E-W; 3m N-S) with slightly corbelled walls and roofed with lintels. In the N side of the chamber an opening leads to a passage that extends in a northerly direction for a least 7m. 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 Cloonbaniff.
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 Cloonbaniff, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonbaniff.
- 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 Cloonbaniff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonbaniff · Cluain Banbh
- Area
- 1,517,457 m² (151.75 ha, 374.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Achonry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leyny
- Electoral division
- Loughil, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Carrownaleck, Cloonaraher, Cloonarara, Cloondrihara, Laughil
- Placenames
- Cloonbaniff 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.