Crissard

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crissard, from 207 m² to 183,562 m² (18.36 ha, 45.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Crissard 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.

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  construct a cow cubicle shed with under slat storage tank

  Permission · Laois County Council, 24143

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  construct a cow cubical shed (agricultural buildings), construct an under slat storage tank and feed passage

  Permission · Laois County Council, 24140

• 16 Mar 2023Conditional

  retain a hard standing & open loose yard on back filled ground & all necessary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2360099

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crissard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crissard.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay gable-fronted Catholic church, c. 1860, with gabled flanking porches, chancel and pair of sacristy projections. Extensively renovated, c. 1980, with interior remodelled.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Crissard, 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 Crissard.

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.

No address of the register names Crissard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Crissard · An Chrois Ard

Area

2,967,751 m² (296.78 ha, 733.35 acres)

Civil parish

Rathaspick, and its townlands

Barony

Ballyadams

Electoral division

Rathaspick, the unit of the census

Census 2022

287 people lived in 96 households in the Rathaspick electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamafir, Coolglass, Kellystown, Kylenabehy, Luggacurren, Wolfhill

Placenames

Crissard 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.