# Clonsura, Co. Westmeath: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickbla, barony of Fore, Co. Westmeath. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,283,367 m² (228.34 ha, 564.23 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,145 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickbla, https://everytownland.com/westmeath/parish/lickbla.md - Barony: Fore - Electoral division: Knockarrow, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Westmeath, https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/51213 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 230428 - Centre: latitude 53.739367, longitude -7.368086 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clonsura, from 425 m² to 1,237,634 m² (123.76 ha, 305.83 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 105702: 1,237,634 m² (123.76 ha, 305.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105702.md - Parcel 105530: 375,796 m² (37.58 ha, 92.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105530.md - Parcel 105479: 351,326 m² (35.13 ha, 86.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105479.md - Parcel 130477: 299,427 m² (29.94 ha, 73.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/130477.md - Parcel 134293: 183,261 m² (18.33 ha, 45.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134293.md - Parcel 2544627: 51,511 m² (5.15 ha, 12.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2544627.md - Parcel 134532: 44,623 m² (4.46 ha, 11.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134532.md - Parcel 130475: 26,187 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/130475.md - Parcel 105487: 17,769 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105487.md - Parcel 105703: 15,051 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105703.md - Parcel 105488: 8,661 m² (0.87 ha, 2.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105488.md - Parcel 134080: 4,961 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134080.md - Parcel 134083: 4,313 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134083.md - Parcel 2720397: 4,145 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2720397.md - Parcel 105705: 4,130 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105705.md - Parcel 105580: 3,806 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105580.md - Parcel 105625: 3,733 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105625.md - Parcel 105704: 3,138 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105704.md - Parcel 105713: 2,643 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/105713.md - Parcel 134081: 2,537 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/134081.md - Parcel 133819: 2,283 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/133819.md - Parcel 130478: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/130478.md - Parcel 105575: 1,826 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/105575.md - Parcel 105611: 1,176 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/105611.md - Parcel 134082: 1,092 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/134082.md - Parcel 134539: 718 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/134539.md - Parcel 133630: 425 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/133630.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 Oct 2017, Westmeath County Council 176292: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176292/0 - 9 Jun 2017, Westmeath County Council 176177: N/a. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176177/0 - 31 May 2017, Westmeath County Council 176169: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/176169/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Bane, site code 001721 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - WM001-028: Crannog, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CWM001-028----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clonsura. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonsura.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonsura.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonsura.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Clonsura with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath: https://everytownland.com/westmeath.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carlanstown: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/carlanstown.md - Coolcraff (Co. Longford): https://everytownland.com/longford/coolcraff.md - Derragh (Co. Longford): https://everytownland.com/longford/derragh.md - Derrycrave: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/derrycrave.md - Doon: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/doon.md - Newcastle: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/newcastle-231045.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/westmeath/clonsura - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/westmeath/clonsura