Cronkeeran

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronkeeran, from 166 m² to 158,940 m² (15.89 ha, 39.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cronkeeran 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.

• 13 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) ATTIC DEVELOPMENT AND PERMISSION FOR (2) ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460896

• 11 Apr 2024Conditional

  2 NO. DOMESTIC STORAGE SHEDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460502

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cronkeeran.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cronkeeran.

Architectural heritage

• Lime kiln, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding lime kiln, built c.1860. Rectangular plan with earth embankment to side and rear for loading crushed limestone into flue. Stepped, coursed rubble stone walls with tooled quoins. Round arch to front (north) elevation, with stone voussoirs and square-headed raking-out hole with brick flat arch. Set beside small rural road, built into hillside.

• House, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1890, with lean-to open outbuilding attached to west end. Pitched thatched roof with mesh over, tied to metal pegs built into walls, with two rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with raised quoins and raised plinth. Square-headed openings with raised render surrounds, replacement timber windows with painted stone sills, and replacement timber door. Single-storey outbuilding to west with pitched corrugated-iron roof and rendered walls. Rendered and concrete boundary wall to front with metal pedestrian gate.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Cronkeeran · Cró an Chaorthainn

Area

1,315,686 m² (131.57 ha, 325.11 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Mulmosog, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mulmosog electoral division: 238 people in 91 households; 80% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlougher, Carrickatlieve Glebe, Cashelodogherty, Meentanadea, Monargan Glebe, Moy

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cronkeeran 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.