Crosstown
Crosstown is a townland in the civil parish of Killaha, barony of Magunihy, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is Gort na gCros.
- Area
- 58.6 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 1,337 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crosstown, from 18 m² to 156,541 m² (15.65 ha, 38.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crosstown 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 May 2026Conditional
change of use of existing stables and sand arena to an equine therapy centre and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2660455
9 Apr 2026Conditional
(A) retain revised entrance and site boundaries. (B) Retention Permission to retain elevational alterations to dwelling and increase in ground floor area and all associated site works
Retention · Kerry County Council, 2660316
24 Oct 2025Refused
Planning Permission for change of use of existing stables and sand arena to an equine therapy centre and all associated site works
Permission · Kerry County Council, 2560976
21 Nov 2023Conditional
TO RETAIN THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH THE FOLLOWING ALTERATIONS (1) EXTENSION TO NORTHERN ELEVATION, (2) CONVERSION OF ATTIC AREA TO LIVING QUARTERS, (3) NEW ENTRANCE LAYOUT TO SERVE DWELLING HOUSE, (4) DETACHED GARAGE/STORAGE SHED, (5) DECOMMISSION EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALL A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND POLISHING FILTER ALL WITHIN THE EXISTING SITE BOUNDARIES
Retention, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 231128
9 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 21775
10 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE SERVED BY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SOIL FILTRATION SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 20709
14 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17560
18 Apr 2017Conditional
EXTEND AND CARRY OUT ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND TO CONSTRUCT A NEW SEPARATE OUTBUILDING TO THE NORTH OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO INCLUDE THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 17338
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
Recorded monuments
- KE067-042 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, on an E-W ridge with views SE to the Paps of Dana. The stone (dims. 1.2m x 0.7m; H 2.7m) is irregular in plan and narrows towards its W side and is orientated E-W. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crosstown.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Crosstown, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_282 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Crosstown, Killarney9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Crosstown · Gort na gCros
- Area
- 586,031 m² (58.6 ha, 144.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaha, and its townlands
- Barony
- Magunihy
- Electoral division
- Brewsterfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 805 people lived in 281 households in the Brewsterfield electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardteegalvan, Carrigeencullia, Cloghane
- Placenames
- Crosstown 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.