Cross

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 272 m² to 147,419 m² (14.74 ha, 36.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Cross 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.

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  retain dwellinghouse, domestic garage, store and entrance as constructed and Retention Permission for change of site boundaries from those on file no 03/803 and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2560222

• 10 Sept 2020Conditional

  construct i) Cubicle shed with slatted tanks, ii) roofing collecting yard with slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20461

• 23 Jun 2020Conditional

  a) planning permission for a new dwelling house, septic tank and stables, b) planning permission to demolish the front porch and rear extension of the existing dwelling . Thereafter permission is also sought for the change of use of the existing dwelling to an office / study. The entrance to the site has been previously granted under Planning Ref. 18/414 along with all ancillary and associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 20310

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  construct an extension to an existing dwelling house, permission is also sought to alter the front and side elevations of the existing dwelling house, demolish an existing shed and construct a new domestic shed/stable, together with a new site entrance and all anillary site services and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 18414

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 Cross.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cross.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cross.

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 Cross, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cross.

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 Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

844,087 m² (84.41 ha, 208.58 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaboe, and its townlands

Barony

Clarmallagh

Electoral division

Kildellig, the unit of the census

Census 2022

297 people lived in 96 households in the Kildellig electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboe, Ballycuddahy, Coolfin, Corraun, Farraneglish Glebe, Friarsland, Gortnagroagh, Skeagh, Springfield or Knockkyle

Placenames

Cross 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.