Crag

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crag, from 821 m² to 242,990 m² (24.3 ha, 60.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Crag 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.

• 16 Dec 2024Conditional

  Construction of an agricultural shed consisting of cubicles, feeding area, calving area and underground slatted slurry storage tanks and all associated site works

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460980

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE C/W NEW SEPTIC TANK AND SECONDARY TREATMENT "PURAFLO" PEAT FILTERS OVER A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 211358

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DAIRY, MILKING PARLOUR, STORE, PLANT ROOM COMPLETE WITH SLATTED SLURRY DUCTS, DAIRY EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 21715

• 6 Feb 2019Conditional

  RETAIN1. UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, 2. MACHINERY HOUSE, PLANNING PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A CUBICLE HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE FARMYARD

  Retention · Kerry County Council, 19105

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 Crag.

Recorded monuments

• KE030-018001 Graveyard
  Description

  O'Brennan graveyard is depicted as a small square-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 35m N-S x 43m E-W) on 1841 ed. OSi 6-inch map with farmhouse 44m to E. Graveyard was extended to W in 19th century and present remains consists of a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 51.5m N-S x 69m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with round corners with entrance at SE corner. O'Brennan House lies 40m to E, farm buildings associated with this house have been built up against E wall of graveyard as visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible of any church site (KE030-018003-) within graveyard. In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'O’Brennan / O Braonainn translates as Uaimh Bhreannán or Brendan’s Cave, that was named after St. Brendan the patron saint of Kerry. Boundary walls of this small rectangular graveyard are constructed with rubble limestone built to courses and bedded in mortar and capped with ‘soldiers’ and are in excellent condition. The walls are 1.2m high internally. The W and N boundary walls are almost entirely covered in ivy but otherwise in good condition although a whitethorn tree encroaches mid way along the west boundary wall. Entry into the graveyard is gained through a pair of modern green painted iron gates set between three square piers of coursed squared limestone blocks capped with soldiers and contemporaneous with the boundary walls. There were nineteen named tombs recorded, largely in a good state of preservation. The majority are ‘strong-box’ type and there is a very fine rectangular chest tomb also, built with ashlar limestone. Fifteen unnamed tombs were recorded in very poor states of preservation. A total of 82 named headstones were recorded in O’Brennan graveyard. Nine unnamed headstones, of unhewn local stone were recorded within the graveyard'. See attached plan and photographs courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2022

• KE030-018003 Church
  Description

  Site of medieval parish church within O'Brennan graveyard (KE030-018001-) in the townland of Crag, Parish of O'Brennan (Uamh Bréanainn), Diocese of Ardfert, Barony of Trughanacmy. In 1302 the papal taxation of the Deanery of Othorna and Offlannan in the Diocese of Ardfert valued the 'Church of St. Brandan's Cave' at 10s per annum with the tithe valued at 12d. (Cal. doc. Ire., Vol. 5, 296). In 1493 there is a reference to the cleric, Geraldus Stack and the parish church of 'Antro Sancti Berardini [recte Brandani] (O'Connell and Costello 1958, 39). The following year in 1494 there is a reference to Nicholas Ohuran, presbyter of Ardfert and the parish church of 'Antro Sancti Brandani' (ibid., 41). In 1517 the tithes were collected from the church of 'Antro Sancti Brandani' by Mauritius Oconcuor, presbyter of Ardfert (ibid., 48). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described this church as the 'The Rectory of Brenan' (Murphy 1915, 183). In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details: 'O’Brennan / O Braonainn translates as Uaimh Bhreannán or Brendan’s Cave, that was named after St. Brendan the patron saint of Kerry. Apparently in 494AD St. Brendan, as a boy of ten, was sent to stay overnight by his foster-father St. Erc in the cave as a penance for some misdemeanour (Ua Riogbhardáin and Ua Ciarrbhaic 1932, 14). The Rev. Denis O’Donoghue who wrote the seminal work Brendaniana in 1893 records…The spot became the site of a parish church now called O’Brennan (the ‘O’ representing the Irish ‘Uaimh’), where there are the ruins of an ancient church and a large and much used graveyard. The cave itself was preserved with religious care through many centuries and a little nunnery was built and maintained close beside it…there is no trace now remaining of the little convent and even the venerable cave itself cannot be identified with any certainty. It appears that some vandal, who wanted stones, quarried into the cave some forty or fifty years ago and destroyed almost every vestige of it (O’Donoghue, 1893). There is no remains of this cave today however, there is a large distinct depressed area at the north east corner of the graveyard that may reflect this cave. In 1368 the rector of St. Brandan de Antro was John de Geraldines (King 1931, 259). Charles Smith records in 1756 ...O’Brenane, an entire rectory, the church in ruins. Patron: the bishop, Proxy 10s (Smith 1756, 39). There were no remains of the church when the site was inspected by John O’Donovan in July 1841 (O’Donovan 1983, 63). In the course of this survey the possible outline of a building were recorded. These comprised a low northern and western outline of a possible rectangular structure situated on a bumpy platform area surrounded by several tombs and with a distinct E-W orientation. Within this area the ground is overgrown with deep grass, briars and is collapsed and dangerous and therefore not possible in the course of this survey to determine with any certainty the nature of this structure'. See attached plan and photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Crag.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Crag with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Crag

Area

647,146 m² (64.71 ha, 159.91 acres)

Civil parish

O'Brennan, and its townlands

Barony

Trughanacmy

Electoral division

O'Brennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

O'Brennan electoral division: 538 people in 177 households; 91% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrannagh, Cahercullenagh Lower, Muingavrannig, Mweelinroe, Parkearagh, Shanaknock

Placenames

Crag 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.