Cragaweelcross
Townland in the civil parish of Templemaley, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Craig Mhaolchoise
- Area
- 33.5 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cragaweelcross, from 25 m² to 64,307 m² (6.43 ha, 15.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Barefield Settlement Plan, Clare · 28 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Barefield Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jul 2026N/a
to build a dwelling, garage, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 26202
1 Sept 2025Conditional
to retain and complete development. The development consists of retaining and completion of existing granny flat at the rear of existing dwelling house and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25277
11 Nov 2024Conditional
for a proposed private dwelling house, outbuilding to accommodate carer’s accommodation, home office, stable and garden storage, widen existing site entrance, new site access road, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460561
31 Jul 2024N/a
for a proposed private dwelling house, outbuilding to accommodate carer’s accommodation, home office, stable and garden storage, widen existing site entrance, new waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460353
31 Aug 2023Conditional
of conversion of existing attic space (41.5 sq.m) to include 2 no. bedrooms with en-suites, plus access stairs, windows, and rooflights, along with internal modifications, and associated site works. RETENTION permission is also sought for existing garage (43 sq.m)
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360339
5 Aug 2021Conditional
to upgrade existing sewage treatment system and install a new percolation area and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 21823
24 Nov 2017Conditional
to modify front elevation to private dwelling house along with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17912
6 Nov 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of (1) The removal of a front and a rear single storey annexe; (2) Alterations and single storey extensions to existing dwelling house, including ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17848
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 Cragaweelcross.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cragaweelcross.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cragaweelcross.
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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_537 (ZIP).
- 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 Cragaweelcross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cragaweelcross · Craig Mhaolchoise
- Area
- 335,364 m² (33.54 ha, 82.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templemaley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Templemaley, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templemaley electoral division: 1,290 people in 431 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymulqueeny, Barefield or Gortlumman, Derry, Drumquin
- Placenames
- Cragaweelcross 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.