Crushterra
Crushterra is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Carbery East (West Division), Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is Crosdoire.
- Area
- 146 ha
- 361 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 4,833 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crushterra, from 1,070 m² to 478,985 m² (47.9 ha, 118.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Crushterra 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 Jul 2017Conditional
10 year permission for proposed development consisting of: (1) A 110kV electricity substation including 2 no. control buildings associated electrical plant and equipment, underground electricity cabling, fencing, alterations to a previously permitted borrow pit and temporary construction compound at the Carrigarierk Wind Farm (An Bord Pleanala Ref. PL04.246353, Cork County Council Ref. 15/730) in the townland of Carrigdangan; (2) 110kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the existing Dunmanway ESB substation in the townlands of Carrigdangan, Inchincurka, Kilnadur, Aultaghreagh, Aultagh, Ardcahan, Knockduff, Gurteennasowna and Ballyhalwick; (3) 33kV underground electricity cabling connecting the proposed substation to the permitted Carrigarierk Wind Farm through the townlands of Carrigdangan and Gortatanavally and the permitted Shehy More Wind Farm (ABP Ref. PL04.243486; Cork County Council Ref. 13/551), through the townlands of Shehy More, Coolcaum, Coolmountain, Tullagh, Lackabaun, Clogher, Farrannahineeny, Crushterra, Gurteen and Carrigdangan. Together with all ancillary works and apparatus. The proposed development is located north of Dunmanway, Co. Cork. This application is accompanied by An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).
Permission · Cork County Council, 17/431
22 Mar 2013Conditional
Retention of extension to dwelling and permission to install septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/173
19 Nov 2008Conditional
Construct extension to side of dwelling and to install 3no. roof windows in roof of existing dwelling; Retention of minor changes to elevations of existing dwelling granted under planning reg: 99/1003
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/2052
5 Mar 2007Conditional
Dwelling on grant of outline planning reg: 05/5986
Permission consequent · Cork County Council, 07/588
19 Aug 2005Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Outline permission · Cork County Council, 05/5986
23 Feb 2005Refused
Windfarm consisting of 5 no. wind turbine generators of hub height 60 m., 50 m. anemometer mast, electrical substation and switch station, proprietary treatment unit and raised irrigation area, access tracks and buried cable ducts and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/1024
24 Jan 2005Incompleted application
Windarm to consist of 5 no. wind turbine generators of hub height 60 m, 50 m anemometer mast, electrical substation and switch station, proprietary treatment unit and raised irrigation area, access tracks and buried cable ducts and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/272
28 Nov 2003Conditional
Installation of septic tank and percolation area to serve existing dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 03/6048
3 Mar 1999Conditional
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/1003
11 Feb 1999Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 99/584
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 Crushterra.
Recorded monuments
- CO093-048001 Enclosure
Description
In pasture on N-facing slope. Circular area (25m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by mound of fulacht fiadh (CO093-04802-) N->SSE; slight rise (H 0.2m)SSE->WSW; stone-faced scarp (H 0.4m) WSW->N. Break in bank to W. 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
- CO093-048002 Fulacht fia
Description
In circular enclosure (CO093-04801-). E bank of enclosure composed of burnt material characteristic of fulacht fiadh. 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
- CO093-049 Ogham stone
Description
In rough grazing on a N-facing slope. An upright rectangular stone (H 1.55m; 0.47m x 0.37m) with some packing stones exposed at the base; long axis NE-SW. There is a faint ogham inscription on the SSE edge of the stone reading AFG/M(?)OLA. (Power et al. 1992, no. 1035) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 12 April 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crushterra.
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 Crushterra, 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 Crushterra.
- 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 Crushterra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Crushterra · Crosdoire
- Area
- 1,459,631 m² (145.96 ha, 360.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carbery East (West Division)
- Electoral division
- Coolmountain, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 435 people lived in 156 households in the Coolmountain electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrigdangan, Dromlough, Farrannahineeny, Gurteen, Inchincurka
- Placenames
- Crushterra 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.