Kilcrossbeg
Townland in the civil parish of Shercock, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
- Area
- 68.8 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,498 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcrossbeg, from 63 m² to 111,656 m² (11.17 ha, 27.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Kilcrossbeg 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
2 Jun 2021Conditional
to construct a two storey style dwelling house, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto public road and install proprietary mechanical wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21327
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 Kilcrossbeg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kilcrossbeg.
Architectural heritage
- St Anne's Roman Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding Gothic Revival cruciform-plan Roman Catholic church, built 1837, with gabled entrance porch to north of nave, north transept flanked by lean-to aisle with gabled porch to east, lean-to sacristy lobby to west, chancel and lower gabled sacristy to west, double-pile south transept added c.1930, refurbished c.1990 with toilet extension to west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, overhanging rafters with carved ends and raised barges with carved kneelers and stone cross finials to chancel end of nave and to north transpet, rendered chimneystack with profiled cap to chancel gable, sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render quoins and raised plinth. Pointed arch windows having cut-stone block-and-start surrounds with hood mouldings and chamfered reveals and sloped sills. Paired arrangement to east gable surmounted by quatrefoil roundel with hood moulding. Graduated triple lancet arrangement to north transept facing road in recessed pointed arch with hood moulding. Shouldered lintels to side windows to main entrance porch, to north transept, and to sacristy door. Paired lancets to south transept gables. Replacement coloured glass with storm glazing, original plain glazed metal lattice window to side of sacristy entrance. Tudor arch doors to both porches having chamfered reveal and hood moulding, sheeted timber doors with decorative ironmongery. Internally chamfered ceiling with exposed timber beams supported on carved corbels with compartmented ceiling between, pointed chancel arch, three-bay arcade to north transept and lower aisle on slender columns, two-bay pointed arcade to south transept on column, marble-clad altar furnishings. Set back from road at built-up crossroads, bounded by low rendered wall surmounted by wrought-iron railings with square-profile piers at intervals and wrought-iron gates. Freestanding belfry on stepped plinth with ornamented cast-iron columns to south of church.
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 20 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kilcrossbeg.
- 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 Kilcrossbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcrossbeg
- Area
- 687,703 m² (68.77 ha, 169.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Shercock, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Taghart, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Taghart electoral division: 661 people in 212 households; 91% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghierin, Corravilla, Crocklusty, Drumad, Glasleck, Rabane
- Placenames
- Kilcrossbeg 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.