Crean
Crean is a townland in the civil parish of Killokennedy, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Crián.
- Area
- 47.4 ha
- 117 acres
- Land parcels
- 6
- registered freehold, median 8,428 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crean, from 387 m² to 279,831 m² (27.98 ha, 69.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Crean 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
19 Apr 2023Conditional
`for development, the development consists of the construction of agricultural loose house and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23231
29 Dec 2017Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, garage, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 171005
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 Crean.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crean.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crean.
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 Crean, 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 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 Crean.
- 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 Crean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Crean · Crián
- Area
- 473,962 m² (47.4 ha, 117.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killokennedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Kilseily, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 819 people lived in 272 households in the Kilseily electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derry, Formoyle More, Kyle, Muingboy
- Placenames
- Crean 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.