Crovraghan
Crovraghan is a townland in the civil parish of Killadysert, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Crodh Bhreacháin.
- Area
- 214.2 ha
- 529 acres
- Land parcels
- 81
- registered freehold, median 1,697 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crovraghan, from 45 m² to 730,711 m² (73.07 ha, 180.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Crovraghan 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
16 Dec 2024Conditional
to demolish part of the existing dwelling house and the existing shed and to construct an extension to the rear of the dwelling house along with all associated site works and services, to include a new wastewater treatment system
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460641
21 Mar 2024N/a
to demolish part of the existing dwellinghouse and the existing shed and to construct an extension to the rear of the existing dwellinghouse along with all associated site works and services
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460122
25 Jun 2021Conditional
to RETAIN fenestration changes to garage as constructed together with all ancillary site development works
Retention · Clare County Council, 21669
22 Nov 2018Conditional
for (a) to demolish existing extension and shed to rear of existing dwelling house and (b) to construct a new extension and garage to the rear of this dwelling including alterations to the dwelling house, new sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18944
29 Mar 2018Conditional
to carry out improvement works to the existing slipway, these works include the construction of a reinforced concrete slipway and retaining wall along with all associated works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18252
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore 002048
Recorded monuments
- CL060-003 Ritual site - holy well
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.
- CL060-004 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.
- CL060-006 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL060-022 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 19 December 2014
- CL060-025 Quarry
Description
Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A possible feature was indicated (hand-written) on a set of maps (SMR file). On inspection in 2007 a mound at this location was found to be the result of quarrying. An area c. 30m to the N is named ‘Quarry (disused)’ on the 25-inch OS map. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 March 2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crovraghan.
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 Crovraghan, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crovraghan.
- 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 Crovraghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Crovraghan · Crodh Bhreacháin
- Area
- 2,142,210 m² (214.22 ha, 529.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killadysert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Kilchreest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 459 people lived in 158 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyleaan, Cooga, Lackannashinnagh
- Placenames
- Crovraghan 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.