Crocknaraw

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crocknaraw, from 302 m² to 488,095 m² (48.81 ha, 120.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Crocknaraw 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.

• 5 Apr 2024N/a

  for change of use of two domestic stores to a one bed annex with internal & external alterations and an extension linking both and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 21 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460375

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  For development consisting of refurbishment and upgrading works [including (where necessary) replacement of existing poles along the existing overhead electricity line, minor ground works e.g. replacement or installation of stays, and maintenance or improvement works]; and all associated ancillary works including the provision of temporary accessways. Replacement poles will be constructed at, or immediately adjacent to, the existing structures that they will replace. Replacement poles will have a maximum height of 12m above ground; and be similar in appearance to existing poles. Planning permission is sought for a 10 year period. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360510

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 Crocknaraw.

Recorded monuments

• GA022-028 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  Crowning a prominent hill. Revealed during recent turf-cutting and still partially buried in the bog. Aligned NE-SW and 2.7m apart. Both stones are of white quartz. The N stone is subrectangular in plan (H > 1m) and S stone, which is prostrate, is rectangular (H 1.65m). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 197) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-029 Field boundary
  Description

  On S-facing slope in cutaway bog now covered in a dense growth of heather. Two lengths of pre-bog wall uncovered in turf-cutting appear to form two sides of a roughly rectangular structure, probably a small field. Long axis NE-SW (L >17m, Wth >13m). Built of large slabs. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-030001 Field system
  Description

  On a bog-covered terrace overlooking a small stream to N. Three discontinuous stretches of wall are visible in cutaway bog to W and S of an enclosure (GA022-030002-) and a stone pair (GA022-030003-). Built of slabs with occasional orthostats, the wall covers an area c. 300m N-S by 500m E-W. Their exact relationship to enclosure or stone pair is unknown. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA022-030002 Enclosure
  Description

  On a terrace on a N-facing slope c. 40m NNW of a stone pair (GA022-030003-). Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 24m) defined by a low but wide (Wth 2.8m) revetted drystone wall. There is a well-defined entrance at E. A series of pre-bog field walls lie to S and W (GA020-030001-). Though cashel-like in appearance, this monument may be of prehistoric date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Edited by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 27 January 2023

• GA022-030003 Standing stone - pair
  Description

  On a slight rise in cutaway bog, c. 40m to the SE of an enclosure (GA022-030002-). Aligned NW-SE and 1.8m apart. Both stones are of white quartz. The N stone is oval in plan (H 0.8m) and S stone is prostrate (1.3m by 0.75m). Another set stone lies 1.55m to SE but its relationship to the pair is unclear. It is rectangular in plan (H 0.4m). Both stones are clearly visible on current aerial imagery (OSi Digitalglobe 2011-2013; Geohive MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018). (Ó Nualláin 1988, 195) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 27 January 2023

Architectural heritage

• Crocknaraw House, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan six-bay two-storey two-pile house, built c.1850, having crenellated full-height canted bay to south-east side elevation. Recent flat-roof two-storey extension to north-east. Hipped M-profile slate roof, pitched to west and hipped to east, rendered chimneystacks and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rendered walls and plinth. Square-headed window openings, grouped in threes to north end of east elevation, with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, flanking windows of canted bay being one-over-one pane. Some one-over-one and three-over-three pane windows to rear and west elevations. Square-headed replacement glazed timber door to front of house with raised concrete surround. Square-headed timber doors elsewhere. Walled garden to north-east with rubble stone enclosing wall and wrought-iron gates, stables to north-west. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge to north-west. Rubble stone boundary walls with rendered piers with carved stone finial and wrought-iron gates.

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 Crocknaraw, about 1 in 20 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 high, 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 Crocknaraw.

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 Crocknaraw with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Crocknaraw · Cnoc na Rátha

Area

3,466,230 m² (346.62 ha, 856.52 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Clifden Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

516 people lived in 204 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonederowen, Garraunbaun, Glenbrickeen, Moyard, Shinnanagh, Streamstown or Barratrough, Tooreen

Placenames

Crocknaraw 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.