Craan
Craan is a townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Corrán.
- Area
- 207.6 ha
- 513 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 5,930 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 19
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craan, from 70 m² to 393,686 m² (39.37 ha, 97.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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
No zone of a development plan covers Craan 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
3 Dec 2025Conditional
a single story dwelling with septic tank and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2560396
26 Nov 2025N/a
to erect a single story dwelling with septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560387
14 Oct 2025N/a
a single story dwelling with septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2560308
5 Sept 2024Conditional
the full refurbishment of existing stone cottage and the construction of a new single story extension to the side and rear, onsite wastewater treatment plant and percolation area along with all associated site and landscaping works including the removal of new access driveway and patio
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2460273
17 Feb 2023Conditional
convert existing car port attached to existing dwelling to living space and construct an extension to the side of such conversion and all associated dwelling alterations and site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2337
17 Feb 2023Conditional
the existing extension and for permission to construct a new extension to my existing dwelling and associated site works
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 2338
22 Jun 2022N/a
for the change of use, from domestic garage use, granted under planning register number 04/50 to office use and associated site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 22213
17 Dec 2020N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20461
25 Jun 2020Conditional
to construct a part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with attached domestic garage, a single storey garden studio, waste treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 20202
23 Mar 2020N/a
Permission to construct a part single storey, part two storey detached dwelling with attached domestic garage, a single storey garden studio, waste treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 20101
12 Dec 2019Conditional
full refurbishment of existing stone cottage, construction of single storey extensions to cottage and new access road, on site waste water treatment and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19482
3 Dec 2019N/a
full refurbishment of existing stone cottage, construction of single storey extensions to cottage and new access road, on site waste water treatment and associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19474
16 Sept 2019Conditional
the erection of a 1½ storey dormer type dwelling house, new site entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19363
25 Jan 2019Conditional
to convert existing car port attached to dwelling house to living area and erect an extension to rear of such conversion and all associated dwelling house alterations and site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1917
5 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct single storey extensions to the side and rear of existing single storey dwelling house including the renovation of same, to upgrade existing septic tank system and associated percolation area, all ancillary site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18425
3 May 2018Conditional
Retention permission for a single storey front porch and veranda to the front, single storey sunroom area to the side, single storey extension to the rear and detached single storey garage to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated works.
Retention, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 18168
8 Dec 2017Refused
Full planning permission for a fully serviced two storey dwelling house, garage, new site entrance, new bored well, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 17344
2 Jun 2017Conditional
Planning Permission is sought for a fully serviced two storey dwelling house. A single storey outbuilding containing a store for garden equipment and a TV room, new site entrance, new bored well, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17186
31 May 2017N/a
for a fully serviced two storey dwelling house. A single storey outbuilding containing a store for garden equipment and a TV room, new site entrance, new bored well, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17181
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
- CW018-007 Ringfort - rath
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Circular area (diam. 26m) enclosed by degraded stone and earthen bank. Entrance possibly at SE where there are signs of disturbance. No visible evidence of fosse. Low wall cuts off small area adjacent to the bank at NNE (1-1.5m x 4m).
- CW018-008 Earthwork
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Shown as circular enclosure on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map (max. diam. c. 35m). Thought locally to be a ringfort. Levelled c. 1983.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Craan.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Craan, 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Craan.
- 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 Craan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Craan · An Corrán
- Area
- 2,075,738 m² (207.57 ha, 512.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Barragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Forth
- Electoral division
- Cranemore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,218 people lived in 418 households in the Cranemore electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crowsgrove, Kilcarry, Kilgraney, Knockdoorish, Monaughrim, Raheen, Sherwood or Dukespark
- Placenames
- Craan 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.