Cloonkeelaun
Townland in the civil parish of Castleconor, barony of Tireragh, Co. Sligo; in Irish Cluain Chaoláin
- Area
- 915.8 ha
- 2,263 acres
- Land parcels
- 96
- registered freehold, median 13,919 m² (1.39 ha, 3.44 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonkeelaun, from 103 m² to 2,444,465 m² (244.45 ha, 604.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 53 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 Cloonkeelaun 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
20 Dec 2023Conditional
construction of a new slatted shed and underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360363
19 Dec 2023Conditional
development will consist of (i) the construction of a 30m-high free-standing lattice meteorological mast with underground cabling to the existing Black Lough Wind Farm control building; and (ii) all associated ancillary works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360359
8 Dec 2023N/a
The development will consist of (i) the construction of a 30m-high free-standing lattice meteorological mast with underground cabling to the existing Black Lough Wind Farm control building; and (ii) all associated ancillary works.
Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360345
11 May 2022Conditional
development consisting of the construction of a wind turbine with an operational lifespan of 30 years, from commissioning, with a tip height of approximately 150 metres, site access road (approximately 330m), hardstand areas, underground cabling from the turbine to the existing Black Lough Wind Farm control building (in Cloonkeelaun) and all ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 22161
28 May 2021Conditional
Development consisting of the construction of new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, new site entrance together with ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 21203
23 Dec 2020Conditional
development consisting of the following: (1) 7.2m2 ground floor extension, (2) construct a new roof and raise the ridge height to accomodate a 45m2 first floor extension with gable windows, (3) construct a new porch roof, (4) install an effluent treatment system and percolation area and (5) all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20456
23 Nov 2020Conditional
PP - development consisting of the demolition of existing dwelling and the construction of new dwelling house, on-site wastewater treatment system and domestic garage together with ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 20398
17 Jul 2019Conditional
for development consisting of an amendment to the permitted grid connection (Ref. No. PL16/422). The amended grid connection will be from the Black Lough Wind Farm at Tawnamore, Co. Sligo (Ref. No. PL17/93 to the permitted control building at Cloonkeelaun (Ref. No. PL 16/422), traversing the townlands of Tawnamore and Cloonkeelaun. The development will consist of a 20kv cable extending to (a) circa 2.3 kilometres of overhead line supported by a single wooden poles, (b) approximately 240m of underground cabling extending from turbine T2 at Black Lough to the first wooden pole and (c) approximately 100m of underground cabling from the southern-most pole of the proposed overhead line to the control building at Cloonkeelaun. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority at
Permission · Sligo County Council, 19160
27 Aug 2018Conditional
for development consisting of the construction of a slated shed containing a four bay slatted tank capacity 199.98m2 and to carry ancillary site works
Permission · Sligo County Council, 18341
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: Ox Mountains Bogs SAC 002006
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ox Mountains Bogs 002006
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cloonkeelaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloonkeelaun.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloonkeelaun.
- 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 Cloonkeelaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonkeelaun · Cluain Chaoláin
- Area
- 9,157,860 m² (915.79 ha, 2,262.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castleconor, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tireragh
- Electoral division
- Castleconor East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleconor East electoral division: 239 people in 82 households; 90% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carns, Carrowleagh (Co. Mayo), Fiddandarry, Muingwore, Tawnalaghta, Tawnamore
- Placenames
- Cloonkeelaun 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.