Clohamon
Townland in the civil parish of Kilrush, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Cloch Ámainn
- Area
- 165.4 ha
- 409 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 1,902 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 22
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clohamon, from 46 m² to 233,386 m² (23.34 ha, 57.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Clohamon 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
11 Nov 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1) construct a fully serviced dwelling house with connection to
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251456
27 May 2025Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a fully serviced two storey dwelling house with detached
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250614
10 Jan 2024Refused
PERMISSION TO ERECT 3 NO SERVICED DWELLING HOUSES WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Extension of duration · Wexford County Council, 20190189
1 Aug 2023N/a
Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen . The proposed work
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230887
19 Jun 2023N/a
Permission for the replacement of an existing fish screen. The proposed work
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230685
23 May 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect an extension to the side of existing dwelling house
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230566
21 Apr 2022N/a
Permission to erect an extension to the side of existing dwelling
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20220524
21 Jun 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a domestic garage\store and all associated site alterations
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210974
25 Sept 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwellling house with services
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201107
28 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & attached garage with a
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20201000
22 Jun 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to install Solar Panels on the roof of existing Feed Store and
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200667
30 Mar 2020N/a
PERMISSION TO ERECT AN AGRICULTURAL FEED STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE ALTERATIO
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200395
3 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to (1) Construct a fully serviced dwelling house with connection to p
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200258
4 Feb 2020N/a
PERMISSION TO 1) CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PU
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200119
19 Dec 2019Granted (conditional)
(1) RETENTION FOR EXISTING MOBILE HOME NO. 1 FOR TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODA
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20191698
2 Aug 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING.
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191111
31 May 2019Granted (conditional)
RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND USE OF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO APPOINTMENT ONLY
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190764
21 Feb 2019Refused
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 2 NO FULLY SERVICED SEMI DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20190224
13 Aug 2018Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHEEP SHED WITH PART STORAGE FOR
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20181105
23 Feb 2018Granted (conditional)
1) PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A PITCHED ROOF TO EXISTING EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180215
6 Nov 2017Refused
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXISTING FARROWING HOUSE AND PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171432
6 Feb 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ALL WORKS TO DATE AND PERMISSION TO COMPLETE A DWELL
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170112
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slaney River Valley 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Clohamon.
Architectural heritage
- Clohamon House, country house, 1775–1785 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built 1780, on an E-shaped plan centred on single-bay full-height breakfront on a bowed plan; four-bay (north) or three-bay (south) two-storey side elevations centred on single-bay (single-bay deep) full-height return (east). Occupied, 1901; 1911. Leased, 1927-37. Leased, 1947-55. Sold, 1955. Resold, 1998. Refenestrated, 2003. Hipped slate roof on an U-shaped plan centred on half-conical slate roof (breakfront); pitched slate roof (east), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on axis with ridge centred on paired rendered chimney stacks having cut-granite stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal or tapered pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on wrought iron spandrels on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; fine roughcast surface finish to rear (east) elevations. Tudor-headed central door opening approached by flight of four cut-granite steps with moulded rendered surround having chamfered reveals framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having margins. Square-headed window openings centred on paired square-headed window openings (first floor) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six (ground floor) or three-over-three (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): bow-ended hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and plasterwork cornice to ceiling; drawing room (north) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, cut-white marble Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "Acanthus"-detailed ceiling rose; dining room (south) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers, Classical-style chimneypiece, and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on decorative plasterwork ceiling rose; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds on a slightly elevated site.
- Clohamon Bridge, bridge, 1750–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Five-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1839. "Repaired", 1917. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers to upriver (north) elevation having moss-covered pyramidal capping with rubble stone or schist diagonal soldier course coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with schist-inserted granite ashlar voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystones. Sited spanning River Slaney with unkempt grass banks to river.
- Clohamon Lodge, farm house, 1800–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey lower flush end bays. Renovated, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof; pitched slate roofs (end bays), ridge tiles terminating in red brick Running bond chimney stacks having corbelled stepped capping supporting ribbed terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast walls; slate hung surface finish to side (west) elevation. Hipped segmental-headed central door opening with timber mullions on threshold supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed window openings including square-headed window openings originally in tripartite arrangement (west) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having corbelled stepped capping supporting arrow head-detailed wrought iron double gates.
- Mill (water), 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached ten-bay three-storey mill, built 1840, on a rectangular plan; ten-bay three-storey rear (east) elevation. Closed, 1868. Now disused. Roof not visible with no rainwater goods surviving on slate or stone flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered lime rendered or roughcast coursed rubble stone walls with concealed cut- or hammered granite flush quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds framing pivot fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. Set in shared grounds with granite ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting timber boarded double gates.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2846 (ZIP).
- 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 Clohamon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Clohamon · Cloch Ámainn
- Area
- 1,654,060 m² (165.41 ha, 408.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Newtownbarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Newtownbarry electoral division: 2,440 people in 919 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinapark, Castlequarter, Gorteen, Graigue Beg, Knockanure, Ryland Lower, Ryland Upper
- Placenames
- Clohamon 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.