Clonsura

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonsura, from 425 m² to 1,237,634 m² (123.76 ha, 305.83 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Clonsura 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.

• 20 Oct 2017Refused

  Ten year planning permission for a Wind Farm Development with a 30 year operational life (from date of commissioning of the entire wind farm) and all associated works. The proposed Development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. Wind Turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 No. on-site electrical substation (c) 1 No. temporary construction compound (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage (f) excavation of 1 No. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional Roads to facilitate turbine delivery (h) junction improvement works to facilitate turbine delivery, including providing hardsurfacing at the N4 in the vicinity of its junction with the L1927 Local road in the townland of Joanstown and the widening of the L1927 and L5828 junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works (including tree felling). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) / Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176292

• 9 Jun 2017N/a

  The proposed wind farm development will consist of (a) up to 13 No. wind turbines with a tip height of up to 175 metres and all associated foundations and hardstanding areas (b) 1 no on-site electrical substation, (c) 1 no. temporary construction compound, (d) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed on-site substation, (e) provision of new site access roads, upgrading of existing access tracks and associated drainage, (f) excavation of 1 no. borrow pit (g) construction of a link road between the R395 and R396 Regional roads to facilitate turbine delivery, including surfacing at the junction of the N4 and L1927 roads in the townland of Joanstown and widening of the L1927 and L5828 Junction in the townland of Boherquill and (i) all associated site development works(including tree felling) An Environmental Impact Statement Report (EIAR)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natural Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development.

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 176177

• 31 May 2017Conditional

  of existing garage for domestic use and extension of same to form new dwelling, to replace dwelling as previously granted (ref no 07/2158) with all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 176169

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Bane 001721

Recorded monuments

• WM001-028 Crannog
  Description

  The precise location of this crannóg situated on the S end of the W shoreline of Lough Bane has not been identified. The monument is not visible on any of the OSI aerial photographs of the lake. The shape and size of the lake has been altered by drainage works and is now much smaller than its appearance of the OS 6-inch maps. A grove of trees visible at S end of the lake on reclaimed land may be the remains of the crannóg. In 1980 the site was described as following; 'This small Lough has a small island on the southern part of the western shoreline, which may be a possible crannóg. The only access to the Lough is from the Finnea-Castlepollard road to the east, and involves about a mile walk, the last 200 yards to the Lough’s shore is inaccessible due to flooding, and the island itself is surrounded by thick bull-rushes and would be also impenetrable. I can only designate this site as a possible crannóg due to inaccessibility’ (ASI Field Report 01/09/1980). In 2004 this crannóg was described by O'Sullivan (2004, 60-1) as following; 'Located in the middle of Lough Bane, a small bog lake, about 100m from its S shoreline. A large, low, circular mound (approx. dims. 20m N-S x 35m E-W; H 1-2m), located on marshy ground. It appears as a low, grassy island surrounded by bull-rushes, surmounted with some trees and bushes. It appears to have an irregular surface and gradually sloping sides. It is a very isolated site, totally surrounded today by bogs and riverine marshes, all with very low agricultural potential. It is inaccessible today without a boat. However, the site may originally have been accessible by waterways from the Inny River, which flows through the bogs to the E, perhaps indicating its role on a significant routeway'. Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 6 March 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Clonsura.

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

Name

Clonsura

Area

2,283,367 m² (228.34 ha, 564.23 acres)

Civil parish

Lickbla, and its townlands

Barony

Fore

Electoral division

Knockarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockarrow electoral division: 128 people in 49 households; 87% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carlanstown, Coolcraff (Co. Longford), Derragh (Co. Longford), Derrycrave, Doon, Newcastle

Placenames

Clonsura 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.