Crutt
Crutt is a townland in the civil parish of Castlecomer, barony of Fassadinin, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An Chruit.
- Area
- 994 ha
- 2,456 acres
- Land parcels
- 298
- registered freehold, median 16,198 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 26
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
298 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crutt, from 121 m² to 391,052 m² (39.11 ha, 96.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 59 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 Crutt 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
13 Nov 2025N/a
for the construction of a two-storey extension to existing dwelling, demolition of existing outhouse and permission for 16 ground mounted solar panels and all associated site works.
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560723
17 Sept 2025Conditional
to construct a two-storey dwelling house, with detached garage, wastewater treatment system, new private entrance, bored well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2560601
2 Dec 2024Conditional
for development. The development will consist of a new dwelling house, use of existing laneway to access public roadway, new treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460597
25 Jun 2024Conditional
for Installation of a new treatment system / percolation area to service existing house, including all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460293
10 Jun 2024Conditional
for a new two storey four bedroom dwelling, waste water treatment system, new residential site entrance, plus all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460270
9 May 2024N/a
for the installation of a new treatment system / percolation area to service existing house, including all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2460211
29 Feb 2024Conditional
to change the house type from that previously approved under grant of permission reference number 20-524 and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 2460097
1 Sept 2023Conditional
to renovate and extend existing dwelling house consisting of a front porch, altering fenestration, adding stone cladding to a portion of the front façade including some minor internal alterations and constructing single storey extensions to the side and rear and all associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 23208
22 Dec 2022Conditional
for construction of extension to the side of existing building consisting of sitting room and all associated works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22807
28 Sept 2022N/a
for a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 22643
9 Sept 2022Conditional
construct milking shed with dairy, loose area, cubicle, slatted tanks and drafting area and all associated site works
Permission · Laois County Council, 22557
8 Sept 2022N/a
for development. The development will consist of permission for a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22592
15 Nov 2021Conditional
to build an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house and associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 21943
22 Dec 2020Unconditional
Ext of Duration: Re Planning File: 16276
Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 20908
19 Oct 2020Conditional
application to An Bord Pleanála for a ten-year permission in relation to a proposed development in the townland of Knockardagur, Co. Laois as described below:- i. A 110 kilovolt (kV) ‘loop-in/loop-out’ Air-Insulated Switchgear (AIS) electrical substation with a ‘split level’ design, including 2 no. single-storey control buildings (with a Gross Floor Area of 589 square metres), 1 no. transformer bay, 2 no. line bays and all associated electrical equipment, services and lighting within an up to 2.95 metre high fenced compound (with a total footprint of 13,100 square metres); ii. 2 no. lattice-type strain towers with a maximum height of up to 21m and approximately 70m of 110kV overhead electricity lines to facilitate connection of the proposed substation to the permitted 110kV Laois-Kilkenny Grid Reinforcement Project electricity transmission line (An Bord Pleanála Reference PL11.VA0015); iii. Approximately 0.65km of on-site access track with associated site entrance from local public road (L77951); and iv. All associated and ancillary site development, excavation, construction, landscaping and reinstatement works, including provision of site drainage infrastructure and surface water protection measures. The site of the proposed development has a total area of c. 5.5 hectares. The proposed development will facilitate the export of renewable electricity generated at the permitted ‘Pinewoods Wind Farm’ (An Bord Pleanála Reference PL11.248518/Laois County Council Planning Register Reference 16/260 & An Bord Pleanála Reference PL10.248392/Kilkenny County Council Planning Register Reference 17/62) to the national electricity grid. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Natura Impact Statement have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompany this planning application.
Permission · Laois County Council, 20308448
11 Aug 2020Conditional
is sought to construct a bungalow, new entrance and install a waste water treatment system and all ancillary siteworks
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20524
24 Jun 2020Conditional
to retain bungalow type dwelling, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area, entrance and associated site works, permitted under planning permission 00/1486 on revised site boundaries within the same landholding, including detached shed
Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20387
15 Apr 2020N/a
to retain bungalow type dwelling, septic tank with treatment system and percolation area, entrance and associated site works, permitted under planning permission 00/1486 on revised site boundaries with the same landholding including detached shed
Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20239
4 Jun 2019Conditional
is hereby sought on behalf of John Brennan for porch as constructed to front of dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19387
4 Oct 2018Conditional
to construct a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance to public road, private borewell, wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all other associated site works at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18654
18 Jul 2018Conditional
is sought to construct a dormer Bungalow, garage and install a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter and all ancillary siteworks at
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18485
6 Jul 2018Conditional
is sought to construct a granny flat extension to the side of existing dwelling and upgrade the existing septic tank to a waste water treatment unit and polishing filter at
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18455
26 Jan 2018Conditional
to construct (i) slatted shed with feeding apron (ii) silage slab with storage tank (iii) cattle crush and all associated site works at
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 1843
2 Oct 2017Conditional
for the construction of a single storey dwelling and detached garage, with effluent treatment system and raised percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17645
13 Apr 2017Conditional
to construct a slatted cubicle shed with underground effluent storage tank together with all other associated site works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 17232
The 25 most recent of 26 applications.
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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crutt.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crutt.
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 Crutt, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crutt.
- 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
- Crutt, Clogh8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Crutt · An Chruit
- Area
- 9,940,427 m² (994.04 ha, 2,456.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlecomer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Fassadinin
- Electoral division
- Clogh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,288 people lived in 471 households in the Clogh electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughatubbrid or Chatsworth, Boleybawn (Co. Laois), Clogh, Coolnaleen, Graiguenahown (Co. Laois), Ironmills or Kilrush (Co. Laois), Knockardagur (Co. Laois), Loan, Moyhora
- Placenames
- Crutt 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.