Crooha East
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcaskan, barony of Bear, Co. Cork; in Irish Na Cruacha Thoir
- Area
- 120.6 ha
- 298 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 18,792 m² (1.88 ha, 4.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crooha East, from 208 m² to 598,531 m² (59.85 ha, 147.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crooha East 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
31 Aug 2007Conditional
Dwellinghouse and domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/2308
28 Jun 2007Conditional
Change of plans of dwellinghouse which was granted under planning reg: 06/720
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/1691
19 Dec 2006Conditional
Construction of slatted shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/2792
24 Apr 2006Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/720
16 Jun 2005Refused
Dwellinghouse and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4197
9 Dec 2004Withdrawn
Slatted shed granted permission under pl. reg. no. 99/0381
Extension of duration · Cork County Council, 04/9106
6 Apr 2004Conditional
Attic conversion and installation of 3 no. dormer windows to dwelling and construction of detached garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/2280
25 Jul 2003Withdrawn
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/3728
19 Dec 2002Refused
Dwellinghouse incorporating domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/5702
3 Sept 2002Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 02/3895
23 May 2000Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 00/3073
12 Jul 1999Refused
Dwelling
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 99/3820
12 Feb 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/622
29 Jan 1999Conditional
Construction of slatted cattle shed & associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/381
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 Crooha East.
Recorded monuments
- CO103-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on edge of break in SE-facing slope. Raised circular area (22m N-S; 23m E-W) enclosed by scarp (H 3.55m) with external fosse (D 0.45m) ESE->S. Entrance to SSW. According to O'Brien (1970, 12, No. 12) locally known as "Lisbeg". The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO103-011001 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on edge of break in SE-facing slope. Circular area (26m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 5m). External fosse (D 0.7m) with counterscarp (H 0.7m) S->SW. Entrance (Wth 4.4m) to S, with causeway. Souterrain (CO103-01102-) in interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO103-011002 Souterrain
Description
In S quadrant of bivallate ringfort (CO103-01101-) (O'Brien 1970, 13). Shallow depression in interior (diam 1.5m) c. 6m from base of S bank noted. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO103-029 Field boundary
Description
In rough hill pasture part of which is cutaway bog, on a terrace, on a S-facing hillslope with a view E-W over Trafrask Harbour and Bantry Bay. A relict stone field boundary (T 0.5m; H 0.4m), which protrudes above the surface of the remaining shallow bog, runs in a general N direction for c. 70m and then continues intermittently in an E direction for c. 60m towards the river forming the boundary between Crooha East and Ballynahown. Occasionally the wall runs on into deeper bog. Most of the stones are set at right angles to the line of the wall and the larger slabs are set on the line of the wall. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crooha East.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Crooha East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crooha East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Crooha East · Na Cruacha Thoir
- Area
- 1,206,034 m² (120.6 ha, 298.02 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaskan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bear
- Electoral division
- Adrigole, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Adrigole electoral division: 497 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahown, Crooha Middle, Glenlough, Kildromalive, Leitrim More, Ulusker
- Placenames
- Crooha East 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.