Crughwill

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crughwill, from 627 m² to 251,838 m² (25.18 ha, 62.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Carron Settlement Plan, Clare · 6 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Carron Settlement Plan, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S1Community (Education)
  Carron Settlement Plan, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• O2Village Growth Area (General)
  Carron Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community (Community facilities)
  Carron Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C1.1Commercial (Commercial, retail)
  Carron 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Crughwill 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.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054
• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Moneen Mountain 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL010-016 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On the NE-edge of a large bawn (CL010-016001-) now a farmyard, in level pasture with a modern house to the E. Named ‘Castle (in ruins)’ on the 1840 and 1916 editions of the OS 6-inch map. Described by O’Donovan (1839) as ‘the Castle of Crughwill’ also known as ‘Kreagwill’ and ‘Criuchmhuil’ and ‘so injured that its ruins are not interesting’ (Comber 1997, 36). Recorded later by Westropp (1898-1900, 362) as fragmentary remains. According to Ua Cróinín and Breen (1995, 60), the castle’s name derives from ‘An Crochaill - The Overhanging Cliff’ and the earliest known historical reference to it is from 1574 when it was recorded as being in the ownership the O’Loughlins of Burren. They also state that most of the castle was dismantled before 1940 to provide building stone locally but that, according to local information, a surviving portion (est. H c. 5m) with a square shaft within it (likely a garderobe) was removed in the 1970’s (op. cit.). No visible surface trace of the castle was recorded on a field inspection in 1999. See attached document CL010-016----_01.jpg 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. Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 13 December 2022

• CL010-016001 Bawn
  Description

  In level pasture and occupied by a farmyard with a modern house to the E. Associated with ’Crughwill Castle’ (CL010-016----) which stood at its E-edge. Indicated on the first edition (1840) and partially hachured on the later, Cassini edition (1916) of the OS 6-inch map which depicts a large rectangular area (dims. L c. 57m NW-SE; Wth c. 36m NE-SW) enclosed by a wall with a wide outer fosse or ditch shown along the NW (Wth c. 6-7m) and SW (Wth c. 4-5m) sides. According to Ua Cróinín and Breen (1995, 60), the southern wall is ‘probably pre-16th century’ in date, while the bases of the eastern and western walls ‘seem also to be late medieval’ in date. See attached document CL010-016001_01.jpg 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. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 December 2022

Architectural heritage

• Saint Columba's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding double-height Roman Catholic church, dated 1861, with gable to roadside, four-bay nave elevations, two-bay single-storey porch to right and two-bay single-storey sacristy to rear. Pitched slate roof with cross finial and bellcote. Roughcast rendered walls with render plat bands. Leaded glass with timber Y-tracery set in lancet openings. Pointed arch and square-headed door openings with timber matchboard doors having wrought-iron strap hinges. Retaining interior features. Cut-stone stone gate piers with moulded caps, set in rendered boundary walls.

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

At the centre of the townland of Crughwill, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Crughwill

Area

743,211 m² (74.32 ha, 183.65 acres)

Civil parish

Carran, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Carran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

146 people lived in 40 households in the Carran electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconry, Rannagh East, Rannagh West, Sladoo, Termon

Placenames

Crughwill 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.