Crohane West
Crohane West is a townland in the civil parish of Desertserges, barony of Carbery East (East Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Cruachán Thiar.
- Area
- 27.9 ha
- 69 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,255 m² (0.33 ha, 0.8 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crohane West, from 2,018 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 123,329 m² (12.33 ha, 30.48 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 Crohane West 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
5 May 2026Grant with conditions
Construction of a new building for agricultural machinery storage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 26/1162
13 Mar 2025Refused
Construct a machinery storage shed and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/128
31 Oct 2019Conditional
Construct dwelling, domestic garage, install sewage treatment system and for all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/695
26 Nov 2013Conditional
Construct a cattle underpass beneath the public road along with all associated ancillary works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/654
23 Oct 2013Incompleted application
Construction of a cattle underpass beneath the public road, along with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/605
28 Jul 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/5798
23 Jun 2004Incompleted application
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4596
11 Jun 2003Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/2824
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 Crohane West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crohane West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crohane West.
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 Crohane West, 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 Crohane West.
- 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 Crohane West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Crohane West · An Cruachán Thiar
- Area
- 279,211 m² (27.92 ha, 68.99 acres)
- Civil parish
- Desertserges, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (East Division)
- Electoral division
- Kilmoylerane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 339 people lived in 104 households in the Kilmoylerane electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Crohane (Bandon), Crohane East, Dromgarriff East, Kilmoylerane South
- Placenames
- Crohane West 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.