Crannagh
Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish An Chrannach
- Area
- 139.6 ha
- 345 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 2,204 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crannagh, from 114 m² to 153,660 m² (15.37 ha, 37.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Crannagh 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
29 May 2026Conditional
for single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road, wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660864
9 May 2026N/a
will consist of (a) single storey dwelling house, (b) single storey domestic garage, (c) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660717
31 Aug 2021Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 203.3 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211585
1 May 2018Conditional
to construct single storey side extension to existing dwelling house and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 26.96 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18549
22 Dec 2017Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 264.5sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171870
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
- Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252
Recorded monuments
- GA113-101 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
In pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 43m E-W; c. 40m N-S). A NNE-SSW running field wall cut through the enclosing element at NW and W. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 July 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crannagh.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_725 (ZIP).
- 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 Crannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Crannagh · An Chrannach
- Area
- 1,395,676 m² (139.57 ha, 344.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Cahermore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cahermore electoral division: 620 people in 198 households; 86% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynastaig, Cahermore, Coole Demesne, Crannagh, Lydacan, Polldonoghoe, Raheen Demesne
- Placenames
- Crannagh 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.