Crannagh

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crannagh, from 80 m² to 492,859 m² (49.29 ha, 121.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 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.

• 9 Feb 2022Conditional

  for the following: domestic garage, garden shed and basement boiler house and all associated works. Shed 1: 27.1m2, Shed 2: 26.4m2,Basement Boiler House: 16.4m2

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260079

• 23 Feb 2017Conditional

  and completion of alterations to shed previously granted under 14/727. Gross floor space of works to be retained: 36sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17241

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: Coole-Garryland Complex SAC 000252
• Special Protection Area: Coole-Garryland SPA 004107
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Coole-Garryland Complex 000252

Recorded monuments

• GA113-104 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On E edge of a ridge in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (27m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. A cattle byre has been built in the interior. Abutting the cashel wall at NNE is an annexe (13.5m E-W ;12.5m N-S). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

• GA122-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. On the 1922 edition is it more irregular in plan and a field boundary is incorporated into it from NE to S. (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W). On inspection in September 1982 no visible surface trace survived and a number of the field boundaries in the area had also been cleared. However, when viewed from a ridge to the S a circular cropmark was marked the outline of the site. According the landowner, there was a ‘mound’ here and an ‘L-shaped souterrain’ (GA122-064001-), which he filled in. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 February 2019

• GA122-064001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a possible rath (GA122-064----). According to the landlord, there was a 'mound' and an 'L-shaped' souterrain in this field; he filled in the souterrain. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 February 2019

• GA122-065 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level farmland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (25m NE-SW) defined by a collapsed drystone wall except from NNW to N where no visible surface trace survives. The enclosing element is overlain by later field walls. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

• GA122-066 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level recently reclaimed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 38m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• GA122-067 Burial ground
  Description

  In pastureland on the S-facing side of a low hill. This roughly rectangular burial ground (25.2m NNW-SSE; 14.7m WSW-ENE), which is heavily overgrown with hazel bushes, is delimited by a low field boundary. Burials are marked by small randomly placed grave-markers (av. H 0.33m; base Wth 0.34m; top Wth 0.13m; T 0.1m). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 January 2020

• GA122-068 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA122-069 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In recently reclaimed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 July 2019

• GA122-070 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating farmland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 40m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall from ESE through S to WSW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

• GA122-071 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle rise in undulating farmland. Circular cashel (diam. c. 24m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is overlain by a later wall at W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

• GA122-072 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  On a belt of flat limestone cragland, some 700m NE of a wedge-tomb (GA122-019----). This tomb consists of a cairn L 22m; Wth c. 9m), aligned NNE-SSW, incorporating towards its N end a well-preserved chamber formed of two tall portal-stones, two narrow sidestones and a large backstone; the whole is covered by a large roofstone. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 20-1; Weir 1980, 149) See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019

• GA122-073 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a hill overlooking the Coole River to the SE. Subcircular cashel (c. 45m N-S; c. 40m, E-W), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. Field-clearance rubble obscures the enclosing element at N and SE. A laneway runs through the interior from E to SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having slightly raised ridge, render copings and low rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render plinth course and quoin bands. Square-headed door and window openings having replacement uPVC fittings. Outbuilding to front of house having pitched corrugated-iron roof with render copings, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed double-leaf corrugated-iron door. Concrete boundary walls to front of site with recent double-leaf timber 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 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.

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

Name

Crannagh · An Chrannach

Area

2,467,837 m² (246.78 ha, 609.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kiltartan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltartan electoral division: 859 people in 290 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynastaig, Coole Demesne, Crannagh, Doonowen, Garryland, Lisheenacrannagh

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.