Clonkeen

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonkeen, from 4,316 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) to 696,091 m² (69.61 ha, 172.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonkeen 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 Clonkeen 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Garriskil Bog SAC 000679
• Special Protection Area: Garriskil Bog SPA 004102
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Garriskil Bog 000679

Recorded monuments

• WM006-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E side of a slight rise in pasture-land, with good views in all directions. Bog 135m to NE and 155m to SW. A sub-circular area (diam. 25m NW-SE) enclosed by a poorly preserved earthen bank and a narrow shallow round-bottomed fosse, which has been filled in at S. The interior slopes gently from NW-SE. The site has been levelled since the site visits in 1975, and is now visible only as a faint crop mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 January 2017

• WM006-079 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
  Description

  Site of a possible prehistoric lithic scatter on the N bank of the Inny River in the townland of Clonkeen, in the parish of Street, barony of Moygoish, the shoreline of Lough Derravaragh lies 2km to the E. Mesolithic habitation site (WM006-065----) and lithic scatter (WM006-025----) 1.5km and 1.7km to the NE respectively, Mesolithic lithic scatter (WM006-067----) 1.8km to ENE and second Mesolithic lithic scatter (WM006-068----) 2km to E. Located adjacent to a cut-away bog, in an area where dredged material from the adjacent Inny River was deposited in the 1960s. At this location the Inny River forms the townland boundary with Lackanwood, the parish boundary with Lackan and the barony boundary with Corkaree. The townland boundary of Derradd marked by a disused drainage ditch lies 95m to W while the townland boundary of Clonava indicated by a stream running into the Inny River is visible c. 100m to the E. The lithic material which includes chert blades/flakes (22 in total) have been collected by Mr. Pat Kerrigan over the past 20 years and was recently reported to Ms. Melanie Mc Quade, Heritage Officer, Westmeath County Council and Ms. Isabella Mulhall of the National Museum of Ireland. See attached photograph of findspot courtesy of Ms. Isabella Mulhall and Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2021 and 14/09/2019. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Ms. Isabella Mulhall, Assistant Keeper of the Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland Date of upload: 11 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Clonkeen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Clonkeen

Area

2,605,994 m² (260.6 ha, 643.96 acres)

Civil parish

Street, and its townlands

Barony

Moygoish

Electoral division

Street, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Barradrum, Bottomy, Clonava, Derradd, Garriskil, Lackanwood, Monagead

Placenames

Clonkeen 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.