# Cross Eighter, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish An Chrois Íochtair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,021,815 m² (102.18 ha, 252.5 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 26,192 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killoscobe, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killoscobe.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Mounthazel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Mounthazel electoral division: 544 people in 194 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20565 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 61603 - Centre: latitude 53.414281, longitude -8.567289 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross Eighter, from 556 m² to 151,175 m² (15.12 ha, 37.36 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2054697: 151,175 m² (15.12 ha, 37.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054697.md - Parcel 2054696: 144,643 m² (14.46 ha, 35.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054696.md - Parcel 2104362: 139,501 m² (13.95 ha, 34.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104362.md - Parcel 2104358: 134,862 m² (13.49 ha, 33.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104358.md - Parcel 4674764: 120,828 m² (12.08 ha, 29.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4674764.md - Parcel 2054699: 61,546 m² (6.15 ha, 15.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054699.md - Parcel 2054591: 48,470 m² (4.85 ha, 11.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054591.md - Parcel 2054594: 38,581 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054594.md - Parcel 2054695: 28,276 m² (2.83 ha, 6.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054695.md - Parcel 2104360: 26,294 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104360.md - Parcel 2054592: 26,192 m² (2.62 ha, 6.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054592.md - Parcel 2054698: 26,020 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054698.md - Parcel 2104361: 25,699 m² (2.57 ha, 6.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104361.md - Parcel 2054593: 21,460 m² (2.15 ha, 5.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054593.md - Parcel 2054590: 15,788 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054590.md - Parcel 5449978: 2,985 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449978.md - Parcel 5622934: 2,152 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5622934.md - Parcel 2104363: 2,051 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104363.md - Parcel 2104359: 2,029 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2104359.md - Parcel 2054589: 1,772 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2054589.md - Parcel 4671664: 556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671664.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cross Eighter in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 7 Jun 2026, Galway County Council 2660915: Refused. Retention. of (a) existing steel storage container, b) existing stoned yard, c) existing storage shed, d) existing concrete apron & e) provide a new exit to the north of the existing site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660915/0 - 23 Jan 2026, Galway County Council 2660079: Refused. Retention. of (a) steel storage container b) existing stoned yard, c) existing storage shed, d) existing concrete apron & e) provide a new exit to the north of existing site. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660079/0 - 28 May 2024, Galway County Council 24142: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to demolish existing extension and to reconstruct and extend private dwelling house to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: extensions 52.17 sqm. gross floor space of any demolition: extension 12.35 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/24142/0 - 18 May 2021, Galway County Council 21839: Refused. Permission. to demolish existing workshop and construct a new workshop / storage shed to include concrete apron and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed: 693.24 sqm, Apron: 626.86 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 385.39 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21839/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cross Eighter. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cross Eighter. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cross Eighter. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cross Eighter. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross-eighter.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross-eighter.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross-eighter.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cross Eighter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caltraghcreen: https://everytownland.com/galway/caltraghcreen.md - Cross Oughter: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross-oughter.md - Knockavilla: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockavilla.md - Menlough Commons: https://everytownland.com/galway/menlough-commons.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneen-63323.md - Pollnabrone: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollnabrone.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/cross-eighter - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/cross-eighter