Cloghanumera

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloghanumera, from 137 m² to 129,201 m² (12.92 ha, 31.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloghanumera 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cloghanumera in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Cloghanumera.

Recorded monuments

• WM020-142 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Monument surveyed in 2015 and described by McGuinness (2015, 40) as following: ‘Fairly well-preserved, previously unrecorded ring-barrow (Diam. 19m N-S x 18.2m c. E-W), comprising a low, flat-topped circular mound (Diam. (base) 9m N-S x 8.2m E-W; Diam. (upper surface) 6m N-S x 6m E-W) with quite well-defined edge, surrounded by a broad, flat-based ditch, and an external bank which has be removed for a few metres on W side due to poaching or other erosion. Greatest height of mound over ditch is 0.46m at SSW; where bank is best preserved at NW, it is 2.50m in width and rises 0.15m over ditch and 0.31m over external ground level, but is 0.22m lower than the central mound; width of ditch at NW is 3.30m. A modern field fence runs NE-SW across SE edge of site; this is just within the line of an older field ditch, shown on First Edition OS 6” map (1838), which appears to have removed the outer bank for a stretch of 11m at this point. There appear to be traces of a second, outer ditch, between 5.20 and 5.50m in width, on N side; and possibly a second bank beyond this, but these are both very faint and are not shown on the plan; the ditch is best preserved in an arc running from a stream (see below), which lies 2.50m from inner bank at SW side of site, through N to NE where it reaches the modern field fence; and further possible traces of outer face of ditch and outer bank are visible across field fence to SE. Unless the stream has been redirected at some point, outer bank could never have been complete on SW side. Although land on which it is sited slopes down gradually towards stream to SW, barrow has nonetheless been kept level by making central mound higher and more massive on SW side. A stream flows from NW-SE immediately SW of barrow. A second ring-barrow (No. 14) lies across the stream c. 65m to WSW in Cooksborough townland, and on a hilltop in the same townland, strikingly visible across stream 120m to SSW, is a mound-barrow (WM020-026----); two further mound-barrows (WM020-027----; WM020-028----), now destroyed, lay on elevated ground on same side of stream as this c. 70m or more to NE in Killynan townland. There is a small natural lake (kettle-hole?) at foot a rise c. 50m to N. It is notable that while there are many local heights all round, this and the other ring-barrow (No. 14) have been deliberately placed in low-lying locations prone to flooding (pers. comm. Landowner). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by David McGuinness. Date of upload: 6 February 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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).

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

Name

Cloghanumera

Area

140,810 m² (14.08 ha, 34.79 acres)

Civil parish

Rathconnell, and its townlands

Barony

Moyashel And Magheradernon

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Cooksborough, Killynan (cooke), Mountrobert

Placenames

Cloghanumera on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.