# Crockaun, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballyshannon, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare; in Irish An Cnocán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,336,436 m² (133.64 ha, 330.24 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 8,211 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballyshannon, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/ballyshannon.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Ballyshannon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Kildare, https://everytownland.com/kildare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/24952 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80429 - Centre: latitude 53.097231, longitude -6.842303 (WGS 84) ## 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); 41 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1075838: 204,440 m² (20.44 ha, 50.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1075838.md - Parcel 2555086: 153,494 m² (15.35 ha, 37.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2555086.md - Parcel 1031954: 143,209 m² (14.32 ha, 35.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031954.md - Parcel 1014887: 86,807 m² (8.68 ha, 21.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1014887.md - Parcel 1089464: 85,303 m² (8.53 ha, 21.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089464.md - Parcel 4476811: 78,342 m² (7.83 ha, 19.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4476811.md - Parcel 1058851: 78,181 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1058851.md - Parcel 1031950: 68,868 m² (6.89 ha, 17.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031950.md - Parcel 1064553: 67,598 m² (6.76 ha, 16.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1064553.md - Parcel 1055587: 65,343 m² (6.53 ha, 16.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1055587.md - Parcel 1080590: 52,218 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080590.md - Parcel 2484724: 51,084 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2484724.md - Parcel 1060082: 43,213 m² (4.32 ha, 10.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1060082.md - Parcel 1088221: 24,603 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1088221.md - Parcel 1090792: 22,377 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1090792.md - Parcel 1031564: 17,027 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031564.md - Parcel 1018629: 10,489 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1018629.md - Parcel 1080676: 5,934 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1080676.md - Parcel 1078090: 5,676 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1078090.md - Parcel 1085017: 4,826 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1085017.md - Parcel 1045629: 4,359 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1045629.md - Parcel 2462462: 3,930 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2462462.md - Parcel 1023670: 3,322 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1023670.md - Parcel 5438776: 3,237 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5438776.md - Parcel 5438780: 3,036 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5438780.md - Parcel 1074036: 2,680 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074036.md - Parcel 2650299: 2,366 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2650299.md - Parcel 1057380: 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1057380.md - Parcel 1056303: 1,677 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1056303.md - Parcel 1089220: 1,224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1089220.md - Parcel 4476762: 1,154 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4476762.md - Parcel 4892849: 821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4892849.md - Parcel 1031776: 87 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1031776.md - Parcel 5664395: 77 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5664395.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 16 Apr 2026, Kildare County Council 2660408: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660408/0 - 2 Jan 2025, Kildare County Council 2560001: Refused. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560001/0 - 4 Oct 2023, Kildare County Council 23925: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, new entrance and necessary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23925/0 - 21 Jul 2021, Kildare County Council 211069: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/211069/0 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 Crockaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD028-084: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD028-084----. 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 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 Crockaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2573, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2573.zip (ZIP). - 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/kildare/crockaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crockaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crockaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/kildare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyshannon: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyshannon-80113.md - Ballyshannon Demesne: https://everytownland.com/kildare/ballyshannon-demesne.md - Common North: https://everytownland.com/kildare/common-north.md - Crawnglass: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crawnglass.md - Martinstown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/martinstown-80852.md - Newtown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/newtown-80946.md - Racefield: https://everytownland.com/kildare/racefield.md - Suncroft: https://everytownland.com/kildare/suncroft.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/thomastown-81166.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/kildare/crockaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/crockaun