Cloon
Cloon is a townland in the civil parish of Powerscourt, barony of Rathdown, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Cluain.
- Area
- 281 ha
- 694 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 14,482 m² (1.45 ha, 3.58 acres)
- Zoning
- G3
- Objective G
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloon, from 39 m² to 719,668 m² (71.97 ha, 177.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G3Objective G (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2022-2028, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Dec 2024Unconditional
extension of appropriate period of 19/1152 - works detached dormer bungalow with integral garage comprising (a) construction of two storey extension to east, first floor extension over garage to north, dormer extensions to north and south, first floor window on west gable elevation, widened ground floor door ope on south elevation, altered garage door ope on east elevation, replacement windows throughout, solar panels on south and west facing roof slopes, raised deck extension to south and associated site works and retention of garage window on north gable elevation and Tricel Novo waste water treatment plant with soil polishing filter in lieu of original septic tank
Extension of duration · Wicklow County Council, 24479
22 Nov 2024N/a
construction of 1 single storey 3 bedroom dwelling. Effluent treatment plant to EPA guidance 2022. New vehicular entrance and driveway from public road L1011. All together with associated site works necessary to complete this development including necessary works to boundaries, car parking and, private amenity space areas and alterations to existing services to provide connections to proposed development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2460733
31 Mar 2020Refused
construction of 1 single storey dwelling, effluent treatment plant to EPA 2009 standards, new vehicular entrance and driveway from public road L1011 together with associated landscaping and site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20314
23 Oct 2019Conditional
works detached dormer bungalow with integral garage comprising (a) construction of two storey extension to east, first floor extension over garage to north, dormer extensions to north and south, first floor window on west gable elevation, widened ground floor door ope on south elevation, altered garage door ope on east elevation, replacement windows throughout, solar panels on south and west facing roof slopes, raised deck extension to south and associated site works and RETENTION of garage window on north gable elevation and Tricel Novo waste water treatment plant with soil polishing filter in lieu of original septic tank
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 191152
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: Wicklow Mountains SAC 002122
- Special Protection Area: Wicklow Mountains SPA 004040
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glencree Valley 001755
Recorded monuments
- WI007-005 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a marked S-facing slope. Rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 19m E-W; 15.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.5m; H 0.3-1.5m) with considerable collapse on the downslope sides of the N and S perimeter. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cloon.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloon.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cloon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cloon · Cluain
- Area
- 2,810,246 m² (281.02 ha, 694.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Powerscourt, and its townlands
- Barony
- Rathdown
- Electoral division
- Enniskerry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,173 people lived in 970 households in the Enniskerry electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycoyle, Ballyross, Barnamire, Boranaraltry (Co. Dublin), Curtlestown Upper, Glencullen Mountain (Co. Dublin), Lackandarragh Upper, Tonygarrow
- Placenames
- Cloon 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.