Croaghrim
Croaghrim is a townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Ross, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Cruachroim.
- Area
- 29.8 ha
- 74 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 4,319 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghrim, from 173 m² to 69,805 m² (6.98 ha, 17.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Croaghrim 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
21 Aug 2024Conditional
for: 1. Conversion of previously approved guesthouse to a habitable residence. 2. Construction of 2 number extension to rear of dwelling and alterations to existing facades. 3. Removal of existing agricultural shed and construction of detached garage and installation of treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 150.00 sqm (house) & 52.60 sqm (garage) & 44.34 sqm (extension)
Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2461085
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 Croaghrim.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croaghrim.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghrim.
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 Croaghrim, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croaghrim.
- 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 Croaghrim with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Croaghrim · Cruachroim
- Area
- 297,958 m² (29.8 ha, 73.63 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cong, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ross
- Electoral division
- Cloonbur, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnageeha, Ballynamona, Cappacorcoge, Clogher, Culleenalena, Toberbiroge
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Croaghrim 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.