Cranavonane

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranavonane, from 227 m² to 277,289 m² (27.73 ha, 68.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cranavonane 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.

• 7 Jul 2026N/a

  the construction of an agricultural housing unit for holding livestock with associated slatted units, concrete aprons, agitation points and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660207

• 16 Dec 2020Conditional

  Permission for alterations to existing dwelling to include the construction of a first floor extension, 4 No. roof windows to the rear elevation, a single storey extension to the rear elevation, and all associated site works

  Permission, 3 homes · Carlow County Council, 20459

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling, removal of existing sheds and decommissioning of existing septic tank, installation of a new waste water treatment system and percolation area, use of existing entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 18408

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cranavonane.

Recorded monuments

• CW011-004 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 on 1839 'OS 6-inch' map as enclosure (max. diam. c. 35m). Small subcircular field shown on 1908 OS 6" map adjacent to field boundary. Encloses slightly raised (H 0.7m-1m) uneven area.

• CW012-020 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. 30m) surrounded by earthen bank with external fosse. Four gaps in bank; that at E is probably original entrance.

• CW012-083 Enclosure
  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 Cropmark of oval enclosure (est max. Dim c. 40m) visible on aerial photograph (BGE AP OS 2 1984).

• CW012-168 Kiln - corn-drying
  Description

  Excavated in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E3731). A kiln (L 1.35m; Wth 0.75m; D 0.22m) with a burnt clay base was uncovered alongside a pit (L 1m; Wth 0.9m; D 0.3m). (O' Carroll E. 2010, 21) Reference: O' Carroll E. (2010) 'AR143, Cranavonane Kiln' in I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2007: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 21 (104). Bray. Wordwell Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2010

• CW012-169 Burnt mound
  Description

  A 'small burnt mound spread' was uncovered during the testing phase in advance of construction of the N9/N10 Kilcullen-Waterford Road (Excavation Licence number E3732). Due to continuous flooding it was not possible to excavate this potential monument. (O' Carroll, E. 2009, 1-2) Reference: O' Carroll E. (2009) Final archaeological resolution report, N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford scheme phase 4B: Rathclogh to Powerstown on behalf of Kilkenny county council carried out by Irish Archeological Consultancy Ltd. Unpublished report Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 10 November 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Cranavonane, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2361 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Cranavonane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.

Name

Cranavonane · Corrán Uí Mhanannáin

Area

3,064,813 m² (306.48 ha, 757.33 acres)

Civil parish

Tullowcreen, and its townlands

Barony

Idrone West

Electoral division

Rathornan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

438 people lived in 135 households in the Rathornan electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolyrathornan or Tomard, Coolnakisha, Rathornan, Tomard Lower, Tomard Upper

Placenames

Cranavonane 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.