Cruit Upper

624 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cruit Upper, from 5 m² to 45,604 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Cruit Upper 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.

• 30 Sept 2026N/a

  SUN ROOM BUILT TO GABLE SIDE OF EXISTING COTTAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661805

• 19 Sept 2026N/a

  COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC SHED AND EXTENSION OF PERMISSION FOR TEMPORARY TIMBER FRAME DWELLING

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661742

• 24 Jun 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650088

• 26 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450165

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (A) AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (B) A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460578

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  CHANGE THE EXISTING FRONT ROOFLIGHTS TO LARGER ROOFLIGHTS ON DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252077

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TIMBER FRAME DWELLING IN LIEU OF MOBILE HOME PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 21/50637

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252028

• 15 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM / PERCOLATION AREA (4) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ACCESS LANE TO SERVE THE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251220

• 8 Jun 2022N/a

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND DECOMMISSIONING AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STORY REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE (C) INSTALLATION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA (D) DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESS LANE TO SERVE THE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250987

• 19 Oct 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING UNIT INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152080

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HABITABLE DWELLING & DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK (2) CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (3) ERECTION OF TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2150637

• 1 Jul 2020Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050859

• 11 Feb 2020Conditional

  GRANNY FLAT AS CONVERTED FROM ORIGINAL DOMESTIC GARAGE AND AS CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING HOUSEHOLD SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050148

• 5 Oct 2017Conditional

  THE RELOCATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA WHICH INCLUDES THE REDUCTION OF THE SAND POLISHING FILTER AND RETENTION OF THE NEW SITE BOUNDARIES, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 16/50877

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751520

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141

Recorded monuments

• DG040-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The OS 6-inch maps record St. Bridget's Wells in Cruit graveyard. Five wells are to be found today, consisting of simple holes dug in the sand. Apparently new wells are constantly dug. A turas or pilgrimage involving these still takes place here. Described by Ó Muirgheasa in 1936 as 'In Cruit Islands there are three Holy Wells: (1) Tobar Bhrighde, or St. Brigid's Well. (2) Tobar Mhuire (DG040-003001-), or the B. V. Mary's Well, and a third nameless (DG040-003002-). There were also three leachta there. There is a Leac Phroinseis, or St. Francis's flag-stone, which suggests a Franciscan foundation on the island. Sick persons used to be brought to sleep during one night on the Leacht Mhdr and if they slept it was a sign that they would get better. Stations are made on the 15th August. It is said that in Cruit graveyard there is an inscription which cannot be deciphered' (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 152). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 02 November 2011

• DG040-003001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The OS 6-inch maps record St. Bridget's Wells in Cruit graveyard. Five wells are to be found today, consisting of simple holes dug in the sand. Apparently new wells are constantly dug. A turas or pilgrimage involving these still takes place here. Described by O Muirgheasa as 'in Cruit Islands there are three Holy Wells (DG040-003/003001/003002-) : (1) Tobar Bhrighde, or St. Brigid's Well. (2) Tobar Mhuire, or the B.V. Mary's We'll, and a third nameless. There were also three leachta there. There is a Leac Phroinseis, or St Francis's flag-stone, which suggests a Franciscan foundation on the island. Sick persons used to be brought to sleep during one night on the Leacht Mhor and if they slept it was a sign that they would get better. Stations are made on the 15th August. It is said that in Cruit graveyard there is an inscription which cannot be deciphered'. (O Muirgheasa 1936, 152). (O Muirgheasa No. 45, 46, 47)

• DG040-003002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The OS 6-inch maps record St. Bridget's Wells in Cruit graveyard. Five wells are to be found today, consisting of simple holes dug in the sand. Apparently new wells are constantly dug. A turas or pilgrimage involving these still takes place here. Described by O Muirgheasa as 'in Cruit Islands there are three Holy Wells (DG040-003/003001/003002-) : (1) Tobar Bhrighde, or St. Brigid's Well. (2) Tobar Mhuire, or the B.V. Mary's We'll, and a third nameless. There were also three leachta there. There is a Leac Phroinseis, or St Francis's flag-stone, which suggests a Franciscan foundation on the island. Sick persons used to be brought to sleep during one night on the Leacht Mhor and if they slept it was a sign that they would get better. Stations are made on the 15th August. It is said that in Cruit graveyard there is an inscription which cannot be deciphered'. (O Muirgheasa 1936, 152). (O Muirgheasa No. 45, 46, 47)

• DG040-007 Burial
  Description

  Located on a low, rocky oval hillock, (c. 60m NE−SW; c. 45m NW−SE) E of centre on Cruit Island, 70m W of a beach. The hillock is cut by a road on its E side. In February 1954 human skeletal remains were uncovered by workers for Donegal County Council digging for sand on the hillock. It was reported that the body was extended E−W in an unlined pit dug into sand and gravel. No associated grave-goods or grave-markers were found. According to local tradition, a sailor of great size, washed ashore on the island c. 100-200 years previously, had been buried in this general vicinity, and it was thought likely that this burial was that of the drowned sailor. The site was reported to the Gardaí at Burtonport, and the remains were examined by a pathologist, who noted that the individual was unusually tall, estimating a stature of 7 feet, 9 inches. The Gardaí informed the NMI, but as there was no obvious archaeological context, the site was not visited (Cahill and Sikora 2011, vol. 2, 466). The remains were subsequently interred in the island cemetery, Reilig Naomh Bridhge. In November 2017 the remains were exhumed as part of a research project initiated at Queen’s University Belfast on incidences of gigantism in Ireland (McSparron and Murphy 2018). Osteological analysis revealed, however, that the individual was not a giant. The bones were those of a young adult male (18-35 years) with a height of 186.1 cm +/- 3.27 cm, equating to c. 6 foot 1 inch. Pathologies (Schmorl’s nodes and spondylolysis) noted on the vertebrae suggest that the man had lived an arduous physical existence. A bone sample submitted for radiocarbon dating returned a date of 1401 ± 27 BP. This calibrates to a calendar date in the Early Medieval period within the range AD 603-685 (95.4% probability) or AD 630-658 (68.3% probability) (McSparron and Murphy 2018, Appendix 1). Following the investigation, the remains were placed in a new coffin and reburied. (McSparron and Murphy 2018) Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of revised upload: 27 June 2018

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having single-storey extension of c.1990 to west end. Pitched scolloped straw-thatched roof, having recent non-functioning regular brick pegs to eaves, and rendered chimneystack. Painted smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with concrete sills and replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement timber battened door. Extension has pitched slate roof and rendered walls. Set on elevated site on An Chruit [Cruit Island] with four single and two-storey outbuildings to west. One outbuilding has part-lean-to, part rounded concrete roof; other is single-storey with loft, doorway to latter reached by steps that overlie two storage openings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Cruit Upper, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Cruit Upper · An Chruit Uachtarach

Area

1,266,628 m² (126.66 ha, 312.99 acres)

Civil parish

Templecrone, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Rutland, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,496 people lived in 635 households in the Rutland electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 37% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cruit Lower

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cruit Upper 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.