Crowsnest

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crowsnest, from 9 m² to 104,475 m² (10.45 ha, 25.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Crowsnest 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.

• 18 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a new foul treatment system with percolation area to replace the existing septic tank

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560785

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the front elevation of existing dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 12.52 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 1.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21887

• 4 Jan 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment unit and soil polishing filter, as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments (Gross floor space of proposed works: house 229sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 172

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 Crowsnest.

Recorded monuments

• GA100-077 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA100-078 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Subcircular rath (40m NNW-SSE; 38.5m WSW-ESE), in fair condition, defined by a scarp and external fosse. The fosse is visible from WNW to ENE and from ESE to SSW. According to local information, the bank was reputedly destroyed in the 19th century by the landlord while planting the numerous beech trees which now surround the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

• GA100-079 House - 20th century
  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.

• GA100-080 House - 20th century
  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.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crowsnest.

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 Crowsnest, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crowsnest.

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

Name

Crowsnest · Áit Tí Préacháin

Area

1,325,648 m² (132.56 ha, 327.57 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Lismanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 88 households in the Lismanny electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaboy, Belview or Lissareaghaun, Coolbeg, Gannaveen, Graveshill, Oghil Beg

Placenames

Crowsnest 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.