# Crossmorris, Co. Kildare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lackagh, barony of Offaly West, Co. Kildare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 678,729 m² (67.87 ha, 167.72 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 13,751 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lackagh, https://everytownland.com/kildare/parish/lackagh.md - Barony: Offaly West - Electoral division: Lackagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 841 people lived in 265 households in the Lackagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 11% 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/25182 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 80442 - Centre: latitude 53.164674, longitude -6.953328 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossmorris, from 211 m² to 153,336 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1082247: 153,336 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082247.md - Parcel 1032631: 129,137 m² (12.91 ha, 31.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1032631.md - Parcel 1029991: 117,014 m² (11.7 ha, 28.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029991.md - Parcel 1029993: 86,041 m² (8.6 ha, 21.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029993.md - Parcel 1029992: 59,466 m² (5.95 ha, 14.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029992.md - Parcel 1029994: 22,401 m² (2.24 ha, 5.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029994.md - Parcel 1074099: 20,973 m² (2.1 ha, 5.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1074099.md - Parcel 1082250: 15,202 m² (1.52 ha, 3.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082250.md - Parcel 1029990: 14,210 m² (1.42 ha, 3.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029990.md - Parcel 1082249: 13,751 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082249.md - Parcel 1079204: 12,986 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1079204.md - Parcel 3798599: 11,331 m² (1.13 ha, 2.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798599.md - Parcel 1082248: 7,071 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1082248.md - Parcel 1040750: 6,605 m² (0.66 ha, 1.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1040750.md - Parcel 1019784: 3,344 m² (0.33 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1019784.md - Parcel 4780540: 2,911 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4780540.md - Parcel 1029995: 1,671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1029995.md - Parcel 3798630: 1,015 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798630.md - Parcel 1042504: 211 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1042504.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Crossmorris 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 28 Aug 2025, Kildare County Council 2560984: Conditional. Retention. for (a) As constructed door to window to front elevation to existing single storey house. (b) As constructed double doors to side elevation and window to side elevation to existing single storey house. (c) As constructed rear extension to existing single storey house with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560984/0 - 27 Aug 2025, Kildare County Council 2560970: N/a. Retention, 1 home. of (a) As constructed door to window to front elevation to existing single storey house. (b) As constructed 2 x double doors to side elevation and window to side elevation to existing single storey house. (c) As constructed rear extension to existing single storey house with all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560970/0 - 2 Jun 2022, Kildare County Council 22675: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dormer dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, access to be shared via an existing domestic entrance & laneway and all associated works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22675/0 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 Crossmorris. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - KD022-022: Cross - Wayside cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD022-022----. On the N-verge of the road. A lozenge-shaped, limestone block (max. dims L 1.2m; Wth 1m; H 0.47m) with a shallow rectangular mortice (dims. L 0.4m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.15m). According to Fitzgerald (1918-19, 258), ' ... (a) cross was erected to the memory of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, Knt., of Lackagh, who was slain at this spot in 1520 in an affray with Con mac Melaghlin O'More of Leix, Chief of his name. Of this cross, only two portions are now known to exist - (1) the socketed base known as the "Wart Stone"; and (2) a portion of the shaft, richly sculpted, now at Kilkea Castle (KD037-017----). (Fitzgerald 1891, 250-51; Crawford 1907, 237; Strath 1935-8, 191-4; Price 1959, 166; Tickell 1960, 369) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 06 December 2011 - KD022-036: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CKD022-036----. The monument is shown on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a large, roughly sub-circular area (est. diams. c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a bank with straight portions along the N, E, SE, SW and NW, and is visible on an aerial photograph (GSI S 219) which shows the cropmark of a narrow fosse enclosing a sub-rectangular or oval area. In 1986, a slight depression (dims c. 27m N-S; 11m E-W) was visible at this location (SMR file). On a gentle, NE-facing downslope in mixed tillage and pasture. The local field boundaries shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2011 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 Crossmorris. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Crossmorris, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crossmorris. - 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/crossmorris.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crossmorris.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/kildare/crossmorris.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Crossmorris 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) - Cherryville: https://everytownland.com/kildare/cherryville.md - Kilnagornan: https://everytownland.com/kildare/kilnagornan.md - Lackagh Beg: https://everytownland.com/kildare/lackagh-beg.md - Mooretown: https://everytownland.com/kildare/mooretown.md - Rathwalkin: https://everytownland.com/kildare/rathwalkin.md - Redhills: https://everytownland.com/kildare/redhills.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/crossmorris - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/kildare/crossmorris