Clooningan

226 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clooningan, from 13 m² to 146,875 m² (14.69 ha, 36.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Clooningan 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.

• 25 Jun 2026Conditional

  to decommission the existing Septic tank and percolation area on site and install a new wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2660247

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new slatted shed along with all associated works and ancillary services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560238

• 7 May 2025N/a

  Full planning permission is being sought by David Duffy for the construction of a new slatted shed along with all associated works and ancillary services at Clooningan, Curry, Co Sligo.

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2560176

• 19 Mar 2025Conditional

  changes to existing dwelling house previously granted Planning Permission Ref. No. PL04/1189. The changes include the conversion of attic space to bedroom and en-suite along with storage area, relocation to site access on enlarged site, and also upgrading of septic tank to proprietary effluent treatment system to comply with condition no. 11 of planning PL04/1189

  Retention, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 253

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  For development consisting of the proposed construction of a new dwelling house, garage, septic tank system and percolation area, complete with all associated works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18167

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 Clooningan.

Recorded monuments

• SL037-088 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of the S end of a rise. A raised circular area (diam. 25.5m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.6m) SW-NE and by a scarp (H 2m) NE-SW. An external flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.3m) is evident NW-N. The perimeter of the rath is overgrown. 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

• SL037-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In good pasture, on a gentle N-facing slope. A raised circular area (diam. c. 24m) defined by a scarp (H c. 0.8m). 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

• SL037-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a low rise. A raised roughly circular area (22.1m N-S; 25.7m E-W) enclosed by two earthen banks with an intervening fosse. The inner flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.9m) is stone-faced internally. The intervening boggy fosse (Wth 7m) is evident SSE-E. The outer flat-topped earthen bank (Wth 5.4m; int. H 1.8m; ext. H c. 1.2m) is evident S-NE and E-ESE. There is a quarry to SE along the line of the fosse and the outer bank. There is an E-W field boundary on top of the outer bank to NW and a N-S field boundary lies adjacent to E. The rath is heavily poached by cattle and the perimeter is overgrown. 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 Clooningan.

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 Clooningan, 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 high, moderately low, low.

Terrain model

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

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 Clooningan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Clooningan · Cluain Iongan

Area

1,898,014 m² (189.8 ha, 469.01 acres)

Civil parish

Achonry, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Banada, the unit of the census

Census 2022

610 people lived in 238 households in the Banada electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Banada, Carrowwilkin, Cashel South, Dawros, Eskragh, Rathmagurry

Placenames

Clooningan 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.