# Tobercrossaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killursa, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Tobar an Chrosáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 480,704 m² (48.07 ha, 118.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,398 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killursa, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killursa.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Headford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Headford electoral division: 1,864 people in 695 households; 75% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21678 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 64023 - Centre: latitude 53.463832, longitude -9.127837 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tobercrossaun, from 1,309 m² to 220,184 m² (22.02 ha, 54.41 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1930867: 220,184 m² (22.02 ha, 54.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930867.md - Parcel 1967896: 161,912 m² (16.19 ha, 40.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967896.md - Parcel 1930870: 47,690 m² (4.77 ha, 11.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930870.md - Parcel 1930868: 15,782 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930868.md - Parcel 1930869: 15,211 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930869.md - Parcel 1930871: 9,586 m² (0.96 ha, 2.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1930871.md - Parcel 4638618: 3,585 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638618.md - Parcel 1967897: 3,313 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967897.md - Parcel 2483623: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2483623.md - Parcel 1967898: 1,309 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1967898.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Tobercrossaun 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) 1 application, newest first. - 19 Jan 2024, Galway County Council 2460052: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of a dwelling previously granted under 08/1107, a home office and a garage/shed and an effluent treatment system with all associated services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 240 sqm (house) & 52 sqm (garage) & 65 sqm (home office). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460052/0 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 Tobercrossaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA041-050: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA041-050----. In a low-lying flood-prone area close to a domestic well. A poorly preserved low grassy horseshoe-shaped mound (NE-SW 12.2m, NW-SE 83m, H c. 0.45m) opening towards E. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tobercrossaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tobercrossaun. - 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/tobercrossaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/tobercrossaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/tobercrossaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Tobercrossaun 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) - Ballynakillew: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynakillew.md - Cahermacanally: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahermacanally.md - Ellagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ellagh-61937.md - Kildaree: https://everytownland.com/galway/kildaree-62590.md - Lettera or Crossaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/lettera-or-crossaun.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/tobercrossaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/tobercrossaun