Crockaun
Townland in the civil parish of Ballyshannon, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Cnocán
- Area
- 133.6 ha
- 330 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 8,211 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crockaun, from 77 m² to 204,440 m² (20.44 ha, 50.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crockaun 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
16 Apr 2026Conditional
(a) construction of two story house, (b) construction of Garage with domestic storage area and (c) installation of approved waste water treatment system and percolation area along with all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2660408
2 Jan 2025Refused
for (a) construction of two story house (b) construction of Garage with domestic storage area and (c) installation of approved waste water treatment and all associated and development works. Revised by Significant further Information which consists of changes to site layout
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560001
4 Oct 2023Conditional
a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and necessary site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 23925
21 Jul 2021Conditional
a detached dormer dwelling, detached garage, on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, recessed entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 211069
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crockaun.
Recorded monuments
- KD028-084 Enclosure
Description
In tillage. Visible on Apple Maps as the cropmarks of two fosses forming a bivallate enclosure comprising a large irregular, penannular outer enclosure (estimated maximum diameter c. 100m) with a possible entrance at NW, containing a smaller, more circular enclosure (estimated maximum diameter c. 30m) (pers. comm. C. Chambers, 25-06-2015). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21-12-2015
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crockaun.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2573 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crockaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.
The townland
- Name
- Crockaun · An Cnocán
- Area
- 1,336,436 m² (133.64 ha, 330.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballyshannon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Offaly West
- Electoral division
- Ballyshannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyshannon electoral division: 1,813 people in 577 households; 80% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyshannon, Ballyshannon Demesne, Common North, Crawnglass, Martinstown, Newtown, Racefield, Suncroft, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Crockaun 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.