Clonaboy
Townland in the civil parish of Rathaspick, barony of Moygoish, Co. Westmeath
- Area
- 110.9 ha
- 274 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 22,376 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonaboy, from 646 m² to 144,598 m² (14.46 ha, 35.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Clonaboy 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
15 May 2019Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house and domestic garage, install a treatment system and associate raised soil polishing filter, upgrade existing farm access that includes the construction of a proposed combined domestic site entrance and for all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 196127
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 Clonaboy.
Recorded monuments
- WM005-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise on the SW edge of poorly drained peatland, with good views to the NW & SE. Higher well drained pasture-land to S, W and NW. A slightly raised circular area (approx. diam. 23m) defined by a low a bank of earth and stones, best preserved from SSE-S-W-WNW. Possible entrance gap at S. There is no trace of an enclosing fosse. The raised interior is rather uneven and it rises from the perimeter towards the centre, where the outline of a possible house site (WM005-006001---) is visible. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2016
- WM005-006001 Hut site
Description
Situated on a slight natural rise on the SW edge of poorly drained peatland, with good views to the NW & SE. Higher well drained pasture-land to S, W and NW. The outline of a possible house site is visible in the centre of a ringfort (WM005-006----). Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 December 2016
Architectural heritage
- House, 1760–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Semi-detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with direct-entry plan. Hipped thatch roof with decorative ropework to ridge having a single brick chimneystack. Whitewashed walls with pronounced base-batter, probably mud-walled or partially mud-walled. Square-headed window openings, irregularly spaced, with roughly dressed stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Blank walls to rear (northwest). Recessed square-headed doorcase having timber sheeted half-door. Single-storey outbuilding attached to west having corrugated-iron sheeted roof. Set back from lane, at a right angle, to the west of Rathowen.
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 moderately low, 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 Clonaboy.
- 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 Clonaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.
The townland
- Name
- Clonaboy
- Area
- 1,108,711 m² (110.87 ha, 273.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathaspick, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moygoish
- Electoral division
- Glenlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenlough electoral division: 176 people in 69 households; 85% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crumlin or Rockfield, Derrydooan Middle, Derrydooan Upper, Kilmacahill or Caraun, Newpass Demesne, Rathaspick
- Placenames
- Clonaboy 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.