Cranemore
Cranemore is a townland in the civil parish of Barragh, barony of Forth, Co. Carlow. Its name in Irish is An Corrán Mór.
- Area
- 573.7 ha
- 1,418 acres
- Land parcels
- 154
- registered freehold, median 10,466 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranemore, from 131 m² to 321,249 m² (32.12 ha, 79.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Cranemore 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
29 Jul 2026N/a
a detached commercial storage building and all associated works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660239
13 Mar 2026Conditional
to construct a slatted cubicle shed, concrete aprons, new agricultural entrance and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the proposed development and is submitted with the planning application
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2660069
23 Apr 2024Conditional
a detached commercial building for the processing and storage of firewood and Permission for a new low level wall to the Southern boundary and all associated works
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2420
13 Aug 2021Conditional
to construct external slatted tank, concrete aprons and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 21305
23 Jul 2021N/a
Permission to construct external slatted tank, concrete aprons and all associated site works in farmyard
Permission · Carlow County Council, 21286
22 Jan 2021Refused
Permission to develop a wind farm and associated works . The proposed development will consist of: - Construction of up to 7 no. wind turbines with a maximum overall blade tip height of up to 178m; - Construction of turbine foundations and crane pad hardstanding areas; - Construction of new site tracks and associated drainage infrastructure; - Upgrading of existing tracts and associated drainage infrastructure where necessary including upgrade of entrance onto L2026; - All associated drainage and sediment control including the installation of new watercourse or drain crossings and the re-use or upgrading of existing internal watercourse and drain crossings; - Construction of 1 no. permanent onsite 38kV electrical substation to ESBN specifications including: Control building with welfare facilities; - Electrical infrastructure; - Parking; - Wastewater holding tank; - rainwater harvesting; - Security fencing; - All associated infrastructure, services and site works; - 1 no. temporary construction site compound and associated ancillary infrastructure including parking; - 1 no. on site borrow pit (the borrow pit shall be accessed via wind farm access tracks); - Tree felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development; - Installation of medium voltage (20/33kV) and communication underground cabling between the proposed turbines and the proposed on-site substation and associated ancillary works; - Erection of 1 no. permanent meteorological mast to a maximum height of 100m above ground level; - Upgrade of existing forest tracks and paths that shall be re-purposed as recreational amenity trails for community use including signage; - All associated site development works; - A 10 year planning permission and 35 year operational life from the date of commissioning of the entire wind farm. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 2113
18 Jun 2019Conditional
for the construction of a milking parlour incorporating dairy and plant room, collection yard with underground slurry storage tank, the erection of a meal bin, proposed splayed entrance and all associated site development works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19246
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cranemore.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cranemore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cranemore.
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 Cranemore, about 1 in 10 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 Cranemore.
- 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 Cranemore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Cranemore · An Corrán Mór
- Area
- 5,736,599 m² (573.66 ha, 1,417.54 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
- Aclare, Ballinvally, Ballypierce, Ballyshancarragh, Barragh, Deerpark Old, Kilbrannish North, Moneygrogh
- Placenames
- Cranemore 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.