# Croughta, Co. Cork: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyclogh, barony of Orrery and Kilmore, Co. Cork; in Irish An Crochta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,380,618 m² (238.06 ha, 588.26 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 22 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyclogh, https://everytownland.com/cork/parish/ballyclogh.md - Barony: Orrery and Kilmore - Electoral division: Kilmaclenine, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 709 people lived in 266 households in the Kilmaclenine electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Cork, https://everytownland.com/cork.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/11860 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 41985 - Centre: latitude 52.186038, longitude -8.727565 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croughta, from 83 m² to 315,580 m² (31.56 ha, 77.98 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2338970: 315,580 m² (31.56 ha, 77.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338970.md - Parcel 2144009: 275,442 m² (27.54 ha, 68.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144009.md - Parcel 2143915: 263,365 m² (26.34 ha, 65.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143915.md - Parcel 2338978: 245,202 m² (24.52 ha, 60.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338978.md - Parcel 2144007: 208,924 m² (20.89 ha, 51.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144007.md - Parcel 2338977: 173,003 m² (17.3 ha, 42.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338977.md - Parcel 2143914: 170,609 m² (17.06 ha, 42.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143914.md - Parcel 4858853: 165,837 m² (16.58 ha, 40.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4858853.md - Parcel 2144006: 120,561 m² (12.06 ha, 29.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144006.md - Parcel 5014060: 92,673 m² (9.27 ha, 22.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5014060.md - Parcel 2338972: 58,104 m² (5.81 ha, 14.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338972.md - Parcel 2338980: 52,806 m² (5.28 ha, 13.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338980.md - Parcel 2143908: 46,897 m² (4.69 ha, 11.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143908.md - Parcel 5014073: 29,911 m² (2.99 ha, 7.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5014073.md - Parcel 2143916: 25,200 m² (2.52 ha, 6.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143916.md - Parcel 2338983: 24,601 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338983.md - Parcel 2338982: 23,799 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338982.md - Parcel 2143917: 10,010 m² (1 ha, 2.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143917.md - Parcel 2519869: 6,048 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2519869.md - Parcel 2519972: 5,986 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2519972.md - Parcel 5159298: 5,609 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159298.md - Parcel 2338975: 4,425 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338975.md - Parcel 2143912: 4,029 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143912.md - Parcel 2519969: 3,924 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2519969.md - Parcel 5142761: 3,596 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5142761.md - Parcel 5417737: 3,499 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5417737.md - Parcel 2143909: 3,488 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143909.md - Parcel 3434089: 3,260 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3434089.md - Parcel 2143913: 3,216 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143913.md - Parcel 2143911: 2,566 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143911.md - Parcel 5522643: 2,525 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5522643.md - Parcel 3563967: 2,458 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3563967.md - Parcel 2338974: 2,447 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338974.md - Parcel 2133107: 2,359 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2133107.md - Parcel 2143910: 2,193 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2143910.md - Parcel 3440630: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3440630.md - Parcel 2338976: 2,126 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338976.md - Parcel 2338981: 2,094 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338981.md - Parcel 2144008: 2,041 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2144008.md - Parcel 2338971: 1,819 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338971.md - Parcel 2338979: 1,795 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338979.md - Parcel 2338973: 1,752 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2338973.md - Parcel 5877456: 1,558 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5877456.md - Parcel 3123714: 915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3123714.md - Parcel 5770006: 631 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5770006.md - Parcel 5688810: 278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5688810.md - Parcel 5688851: 135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5688851.md - Parcel 5688807: 87 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5688807.md - Parcel 5877498: 83 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5877498.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Croughta in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 22 applications, newest first. - 17 Nov 2025, Cork County Council 25/6496: Grant with conditions. Permission. Permission for construction of a poultry house for the purpose of rearing boiler, construction of two no. feeding bins, concrete apron, soiled water holding tank, underground attenuation water tank, gas tank, site entrance upgrading and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=25/6496 - 9 Aug 2024, Cork County Council 24/5503: Conditional permission. Permission. The Applicant is seeking permission for the construction, operation and decommissioning of a wind energy development including: • 9 wind turbines each with a blade tip height of 175 metres, rotor diameter of 150 metres, hub height of 100 metres and a rated output of 4.5 megawatts. • Turbine Foundations, crane pad hardstanding areas and associated drainage. • Upgrade of existing site tracks and construction of new site tracks and associated drainage. • Access from the local road L5302 at Crought, Ballyclogh including a new site entrance for the construction phase and upgrading of an existing entrance for the operational phase. • An on-site 38 kilovolt electrical substation to Electricity Supply Board Networks specification to include control building with electrical infrastructure, welfare facilities supplied by rainwater harvesting and storage tank, a wastewater holding tank with high level alarm, car parking, security fencing and lighting, and all associated infrastructure, services, and site works including a temporary construction compound. • All associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed electrical substation. • A temporary site construction compound and associated ancillary infrastructure including welfare services, office accommodation, parking, fencing, lighting etc. • Areas for temporary storage of excavated materials. • A permanent meteorological mast of 100 metres height above ground level on a concrete base. • Installation of approximately 13.5 kilometres of 38 kilovolts underground electrical cabling, mainly within the public road, between the proposed wind farm substation to the boundary of Mallow 110 kilovolt substation at Saint Joseph’s Road Mallow. • All associated site works including site clearance and ancillary development including site drainage/Sustainable Drainage System, security gates, fencing, permanent and temporary signage, and biodiversity mitigation and enhancements, including hedgerow planting. The Applicant is seeking a 10-year duration planning permission and 35-year operational period from the date of overall commissioning of the entire wind farm. The Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.The wind farm development is proposed on a site in the townlands of Polnareagha and Ardskeagh (Templemary E.D.); and Tullacondra and Croughta, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), County Cork. The proposed grid connection will be installed underground mainly within the public road from the wind farm site at Croughta, Ballyclogh to the boundary of the 110 Kilovolts substation at Saint Joseph’s Road, Mallow passing through the townlands of Kilmaclenine, Croughta, Knockaunavaddreen, Copestown, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), Ballybeg (Buttevant E.D.), Baltydaniel East, Twopothouse, and Caurraghakerry (Caherduggan E.D); and Cloghlucas North, Curraghphadeen, Ballyviniter Upper, Ballyviniter Middle, Ballyviniter Lower, Parkadallane, Carrigoon More and Carrigoon Beg Mallow Rural E.D.).. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5503 - 28 Jun 2024, Cork County Council 24/5215: Incompleted application. Permission. Permission for the construction, operation and decommissioning of a wind energy development including: • 9 wind turbines each with a blade tip height of 175 metres, rotor diameter of 150 metres, hub height of 100 metres and a rated output of 4.5 megawatts. • Turbine Foundations, crane pad hardstanding areas and associated drainage. • Upgrade of existing site tracks and construction of new site tracks and associated drainage. • Access from the local road L5302 at Croughta, Ballyclogh including a new site entrance for the construction phase and upgrading of an existing entrance for the operational phase. • An on-site 38kilovolt electrical substation to Electricity Supply Board Networks specification to include control building with electrical infrastructure, welfare facilities supplied by rainwater harvesting and storage tank, a wastewater holding tank with high level alarm, car parking, security fencing and lighting, and all associated infrastructure, services, and site works including a temporary construction compound. • All associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed electrical substation. • A temporary site construction compound and associated ancillary infrastructure including welfare services, office accommodation, parking, fencing, lighting etc. • Areas for temporary storage of excavated materials. • A permanent meteorological mast of 100 metres height above ground level on a concrete base. • Installation of approximately 13.5 kilometres of 38 kilovolts underground electrical cabling, mainly within the public road, between the proposed wind farm substation to the boundary of Mallow 110 kilovolt substation at Saint Joseph’s Road Mallow. • All associated site works including site clearance and ancillary development including site drainage/Sustainable Drainage System, security gates, fencing, permanent and temporary signage, and biodiversity mitigation and enhancements, including hedgerow planting. The Applicant is seeking a 10-year duration planning permission and 35-year operational period from the date of overall commissioning of the entire wind farm. The Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. The wind farm development is proposed on a site in the townlands of Polnareagha and Ardskeagh (Templemary E.D.); and Tullacondra and Croughta, (Kilmaclenine E.D.), County Cork. The prop. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/5215 - 28 May 2024, Cork County Council 24/4965: Conditional. Permission. Permission to demolish straw storage shed and construct a straw bedded cattle shed with slatted tank and ancillary works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=24/4965 - 11 Nov 2022, Cork County Council 22/6517: Conditional. Permission. Permission to construct a dwelling house.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=22/6517 - 10 Jun 2019, Cork County Council 19/5521: Incompleted application. Retention. Retention of (1) two number agricultural entrances, including removal of section of road side ditch at both sides of the road and the erection of steel piers and double gates, (2) farm roadways as constructed and (3) all ancillary works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=19/5521 - 21 Mar 2017, Cork County Council 17/4661: Conditional. Permission. To construct dwelling, entrance, proprietary treatment system and all associated site works.. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=17/4661 - 23 Jun 2015, Cork County Council 15/5342: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a two-storey dwelling (change of design from that granted under Planning Ref. No. 12/5809) and construction of a detached domestic garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=15/5342 - 19 Jun 2014, Cork County Council 14/5307: Conditional. Permission. Demolition of existing uninhabitable dwelling and sheds, construction of a two-storey dwelling house with attached double garage and wastewater treatment plant and percolation area, and all associated site works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=14/5307 - 22 Aug 2012, Cork County Council 12/5809: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a two-storey dwelling complete with treatment plant, percolation area, entrance piers and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5809 - 20 Jul 2012, Cork County Council 12/5590: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a two storey dwelling complete with treatment plant, percolation area, entrance piers and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5590 - 20 Jun 2012, Cork County Council 12/5342: Incompleted application. Permission. Construction of a two storey dwelling complete with treatment plant, percolation area, entrance piers and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=12/5342 - 12 Sept 2007, Cork County Council 07/10960: Conditional. Permission. Domestic garage with first floor storage space. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10960 - 20 Aug 2007, Cork County Council 07/10373: Conditional. Permission. Retention and completion of one and half storey dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/10373 - 18 Jul 2007, Cork County Council 07/9688: Conditional. Permission. Ground and first floor extensions to dwelling and construction of extension to rear of existing garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/9688 - 23 May 2007, Cork County Council 07/8047: Conditional. Permission. Construction of slurry storage tank. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=07/8047 - 18 Aug 2006, Cork County Council 06/9865: Conditional. Permission. Conservatory extension and dormer windows to dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=06/9865 - 14 Sept 2005, Cork County Council 05/6654: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=05/6654 - 29 Jun 2004, Cork County Council 04/4772: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/4772 - 31 May 2004, Cork County Council 04/3850: Conditional. Permission. Dwellinghouse and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/3850 - 18 May 2004, Cork County Council 04/3445: Conditional. Permission. Construction of a farm machinery shed, entrance, driveway and ancillary works. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/3445 - 21 Apr 2004, Cork County Council 04/2667: Conditional. Permission. Dormer dwelling and garage. File: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=04/2667 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Croughta. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croughta. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croughta. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Croughta, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croughta. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/cork/croughta.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/cork/croughta.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/cork/croughta.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Croughta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork: https://everytownland.com/cork.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballykitt: https://everytownland.com/cork/ballykitt.md - Derryorgan: https://everytownland.com/cork/derryorgan.md - Kilmaclenine: https://everytownland.com/cork/kilmaclenine.md - Knockaunavaddreen: https://everytownland.com/cork/knockaunavaddreen.md - Lisleagh: https://everytownland.com/cork/lisleagh-44116.md - Mountnorth: https://everytownland.com/cork/mountnorth.md - Tullacondra: https://everytownland.com/cork/tullacondra.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/cork/croughta - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/cork/croughta