Crossard

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossard, from 91 m² to 119,094 m² (11.91 ha, 29.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Crossard 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.

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct a detached garage to the rear of existing dwelling house, with all associated site works, accessed by means of a shared entrance and driveway from the public road

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21179

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crossard.

Recorded monuments

• CL016-101 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the edge of a shelf on a NNW-facing slope with extensive views to the E and NE. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A roughly circular cashel (dims. 35.1m NNE-SSW; 33.5m WNW-ESE crest to crest) defined from E to NW by a collapsed and grass-covered drystone wall (Wth 3.5-4.5m at base; int. H 0.3-0.45m at S; ext. H 0.45m at S). At N and NE, the wall has been reduced to a scarp (H 0.2m at E and NE; max. H 1m at N) and at N in particular the outer edge of the scarp is difficult to determine. A single stone at SW (dims. L 0.15m; Wth 0.8m; H 0.6m) has its long axis pointing towards the centre of the site. The interior slopes to the NW where the ground is lower (1.4m) than at SE. A step of rock outcrop is exposed inside the perimeter at the N (max. H c. 0.6m) and a low collapsed and grassed-over drystone wall (H 0.2m; Wth 2m) extends across the interior from E to NW. An adjoining field wall at N and NE has recently been removed and piles of field clearance rubble are visible along the extant wall to the E. A natural scarp curves parallel to the perimeter of the site along the NW giving the false impression of an internal fosse (Wth 4m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 18 July 2022

• CL016-154 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At the SW corner of a plateau, overlooking the cliff face of a ravine immediately to the S and W (H. c. 10m), in dense hazel growth. This cashel (int. dims. 16.6m N-S; 15.1m E-W; ext. dims. 27.4m N-S) is reduced to a stone spread that is widest at N (Wth 8m; int. H 1m; ext. H 0.7m). From E to S the spread material has been reused to build a drystone wall (H 1.3m) along the outer wall-face and here the spread is 3m wide. From S to NW the spread (Wth 2-2.5m) is flush with the interior but outer wall-facing is visible at the cliff edge. Field walls extend off it at NE, E and SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 25 August 2022

• CL017-054 Church
  Description

  Situated on a knoll on a NE-facing slope. Listed as ‘Church’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). Only the N wall of this 18th-century church survives. It was built in 1793-4 by the ‘Moravian Brethern’ who had been invited to the area by a resident family (Swinfen 1992, 95). They left in 1796 during the unrest before the 1798 Rebellion. The surviving wall (aligned WNW-ESE; Wth 0.62m; int. L 14.07m; H c. 4m) shows three built-in arches, each 3.2m wide, separated by piers (Wth 1.25m). It has an external plinth. All that remains of the S wall is a wide mound (Wth 6.4m; H 0.5m). There is one lintelled doorway (Wth 1.1m; H 1.75m) within the central arch. A plaque in Irish was placed on one of the piers in 1994 commemorating the 200th anniversary of the building of the church. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 June 2016

• CL017-226 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  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 Crossard.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crossard.

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.

No address of the register names Crossard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Crossard

Area

535,846 m² (53.58 ha, 132.41 acres)

Civil parish

Killinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Rath, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rath electoral division: 268 people in 105 households; 87% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drummoher, Elmvale, Killinaboy, Nooan

Placenames

Crossard 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.