Crag
Townland in the civil parish of Kilseily, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish An Chraig
- Area
- 243.3 ha
- 601 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 5,219 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crag, from 15 m² to 420,289 m² (42.03 ha, 103.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Crag 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
20 Jun 2025Conditional
of the construction of domestic garage and lean-to covered canopy. Retention permission is also sought for (a) extension to rear of existing dwelling to provide additional bedroom, (b) inclusion of first floor storage rooms and associated velux roof windows, (c) alterations to internal layout including provision of stairs to first floor, (d) alterations to elevational treatment of dwelling including omission of roof barges & alterations to window design and locations from that permitted under P09/364, (e) construction of vehicular entrance and driveway to serve dwelling (f) alterations to site boundaries and position of bored well, treatment plant and percolation area as constructed & all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560367
17 Nov 2023Conditional
for the construction of a detached two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, onsite waste water treatment system, bored well, together with all associated ancillary and incidental site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360486
18 Sept 2020Conditional
to construct a loose shed for housing livestock on farm
Permission · Clare County Council, 20655
16 Mar 2018Conditional
to RETAIN garage which has been converted to living accommodation and also to RETAIN sun room to the rear of existing dwelling house
Retention · Clare County Council, 18207
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 Crag.
Recorded monuments
- CL043-060 Earthwork
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crag.
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
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crag.
- 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 Crag with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Crag · An Chraig
- Area
- 2,433,333 m² (243.33 ha, 601.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilseily, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Castlecrine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlecrine electoral division: 495 people in 160 households; 89% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Belvoir, Drumminakela, Gortadroma, Oatfield, Snaty (Wilson)
- Placenames
- Crag 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.