Clonlonan

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonlonan, from 2,102 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 203,561 m² (20.36 ha, 50.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonlonan 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.

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  Erection of a dwelling house, new well, new site entrance, installation of septic tank and percolation system and all ancillary works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 21434

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 Clonlonan.

Recorded monuments

• WM036-018 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Clonlonan Castle ruins stands in pasture, adjacent to a modern farm complex. A horizontal water mill (WM036-020----) lies c. 140m to ESE and a bullaun stone (WM036-019----) lies c. 190m to E. Depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped building to N and W of a farm complex with its long axis orientated N-S. According to Cox (1972, 33-34) this was a chief seat of the O’Melaghlin clan around 1548 which was taken by the Baron of Delvin and the English of Athlone in 1553. Poorly preserved ruins of Clonlonan Castle described in 1979 as a rectangular-shaped building defined by the ivy clad remains of the W wall (approx. H 25ft / 8m) with traces of a short return on the NW corner. The W wall is quite thick and there are traces of a low foundation plinth. The masonry comprises of large and small stones and is generally of poor quality. The quoin stones have been robbed out. There is a window opening at first floor level. Castle ruins are not clearly visible on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-019 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated in pasture, on a slight S-facing slope, adjacent to a field fence running NNW-SSE. A horizontal watermill (WM036-020----) lies c. 70m to SW and a Clonlonan Castle (WM036-018----) stands c. 190m to W. Not depicted on OS maps. Monument described in 1977 as a large, flat limestone slab (L 1.15m; T 0.2-0.3m) with a circular-shaped depression (approx. diam. 0.4m; D 0.2m) on its upper surface. According to local information, a hollow in the field was used as a children's burial ground (WM036-019001-) to N of bullaun stone. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-019001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Situated in pasture, on a slight S-facing slope, adjacent to a field fence running NNW-SSE. Bullaun stone (WM036-019----) lies c. 22m to S. Not depicted on OS maps. According to local information, this field contained a children's burial ground. It was situated in a hollow (now almost filled up) and was used in years gone by for [burying] unbaptised infants (ibid). There is a rock-filled depression to N of the bullaun stone which may represent the hollow described. Possible children's burial ground visible today as a dark green oval-shaped cropmark (dims. 53m NNW-SSE; 43m WSW-ENE) on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

• WM036-020 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Horizontal watermill located on wet marshy land with bullaun stone (WM036-019---) 20m to NE and castle (WM036-018---) 150m to WNW. In 1980 the following was recorded about this horizontal mill it was ‘found in a field-drainage operation in 1965, the drain being enlarge on the edge of marginal land on the slightly rising ground towards Moate. This must at one time have been a small rivulet or stream with a relatively small flow of water. Nothing now remain of the mill at the original find-spot. Some 20m away in the next field is a bullaun stone (WM036-019----) to the NE. Thus the mill may be associated with a church site as in so many other cases. The side-beams from the site have been removed for use as a field-fence in the next field. One of these is 2.7m long, and is squared 0.3m x 0.28m. This is of oak. Another plank from the floor of the wheelhouse is 1.7m long, 30cm wide and 10cm thick. Both are of oak. The plank was taken for dating by dendro-chronological examination. In the corner of the field where the mill was found, half of the upper stone of the mill was recovered. It has a fine raised lip around the central hole, and is a millstone grit type of rock’ (SMR File 07/10/1980). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 July 2015

• WM036-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in rough pasture, which is overlooked by higher ground. Monument described in 1977 as a roughly circular-shaped raised area (diam. 34m) defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp is very gradual in slope and is best preserved at SE, however is poorly defined from SSE-S-SSW. The external fosse is best preserved from NNE-NE-ENE. The interior is fairly level and has no obvious features. A field fence runs WNW-ESE across the S quadrant. Partial outline of levelled monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

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 Clonlonan.

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.

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

Name

Clonlonan

Area

812,436 m² (81.24 ha, 200.76 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcleagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clonlonan

Electoral division

Moate, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moate electoral division: 3,521 people in 1,309 households; 65% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Agharevagh East, Boggagh (Conran), Boggagh (Malone), Hall, Kill, Lowerwood, Moneen

Placenames

Clonlonan 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.