Clooneen
Townland in the civil parish of Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo; in Irish An Cluainín
- Area
- 100.4 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 4,775 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooneen, from 291 m² to 199,297 m² (19.93 ha, 49.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Clooneen 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
16 Jan 2026Conditional
development consisting of circa 120sqm workshop and all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660012
17 Feb 2025Conditional
Proposed Construction of a New Dwelling House, Effluent Treatment Unit and Soil Polishing Filter, Proposed New Vehicular Access, together with all associated Landscaping and Site Works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2560056
29 Sept 2023Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling house and garage, WWTP, secondary treatment system and soil polishing filter, and to carry out ancillary site works, with construction of a new site access
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360259
18 Nov 2022Conditional
development consisting of upgrade of existing septic tank to new proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area all to existing building
Permission · Sligo County Council, 22386
14 Sept 2022Refused
development consisting of proposed construction of a new dwelling house, effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter, proposed new vehicular access, together with all associated landscaping and site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22305
22 Jul 2021Conditional
Development consisting of retention of single storey extensions to rear of dwelling house with all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21286
24 Jun 2021Conditional
Development consisting of internal alterations and refurbishment works to St Colmcilles Church, Rathcormac, Drumcliffe South, Co Sligo. St Colmcilles Church is a Protected Structure ref 199 CDP. The works will include repairs to roof valleys and stainded glass windows.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 21245
10 Jul 2019N/a
Development consisting of change of use of part of existing commercial premises from a commercial garage to a childcare facility, together with all ancillary site works and services including erection of new signage
Permission · Sligo County Council, 19281
28 May 2019Conditional
Development consisting of permission for retention of change of use of 292sq.m from existing garage to SFX sports & fitness and the retention of 2 number advertisement signs.
Retention · Sligo County Council, 19202
30 Jan 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the proposed construction of a new dwelling, on-site waste water treatment system, and detached domestic garage. Proposed new vehicular Access and all associated landscaping and site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 1821
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 Clooneen.
Recorded monuments
- SL008-090 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight rise in gently undulating pasture. Views are good across low ground in all directions. Raised circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by a bank of earth (Wth 5m; int. H 0.5m). There is no fosse visible at ground level. The original entrance is not recognisable. There are livestock breaks in the bank at E, SSE and at SW. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
- SL008-092 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on level ground at N base of E-W orientated ridge, in gently undulating pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 34m) enclosed by an earthen scarp (ext. H 1.5m). At the external foot of the scarp is a fosse (Wth. 5.2m; D 0.4m). From SW-NW the fosse is absent and a N-S orientated field boundary bank and drain lies along the line of the fosse, abutting the external base of the scarped edge at W. A slight ramp (Wth 2m) across the scarped edge at S may mark the position of the original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clooneen.
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 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 Clooneen.
- 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 Clooneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Clooneen · An Cluainín
- Area
- 1,003,523 m² (100.35 ha, 247.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumcliff, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbury
- Electoral division
- Drumcliff East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcliff East electoral division: 764 people in 299 households; 90% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynagalliagh, Cloonderry, Cloonmull, Drum West, Drumcliff South
- Placenames
- Clooneen 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.