Cragnarooan
Cragnarooan is a townland in the civil parish of Noughaval, barony of Burren, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 55.2 ha
- 136 acres
- Land parcels
- 1
- registered freehold, median 551,806 m² (55.18 ha, 136.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Cragnarooan, from 551,806 m² (55.18 ha, 136.35 acres) to 551,806 m² (55.18 ha, 136.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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 Cragnarooan 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
No planning application touches the townland of Cragnarooan in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054
Recorded monuments
- CL009-018 Ringfort - cashel
Description
On a gentle rise on a plateau, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). Hachured on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and named ‘Caher’ on the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A small subcircular cashel (18.6m E–W; 18.3m N–S) defined by a double-faced stone wall (Wth 1.3–2.2m; int. H 0–0.3m; est. max. ext. H 0.45m). The outer face of the wall comprises coursed, horizontally laid stones. The entrance is discernible (est. Wth 1.2m) at SE, although its N side is unclear. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 October 2021
- CL009-021056 Souterrain
Description
On a rise on a plateau within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). Recorded on Robinson's map (1977) as a second souterrain outside the cashel (CL009-021002-) at W. On inspection in September 1997, no visible surface trace of it was evident. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cragnarooan.
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 Cragnarooan, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cragnarooan.
- 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 Cragnarooan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Cragnarooan
- Area
- 552,340 m² (55.23 ha, 136.49 acres)
- Civil parish
- Noughaval, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burren
- Electoral division
- Noughaval, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymahony, Ballymurphy, Kilcorney, Lissylisheen
- Placenames
- Cragnarooan 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.