# Cross, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Aghaboe, barony of Clarmallagh, Co. Laois; in Irish An Chrois. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 844,087 m² (84.41 ha, 208.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,420 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Aghaboe, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/aghaboe.md - Barony: Clarmallagh - Electoral division: Kildellig, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28029 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100459 - Centre: latitude 52.920154, longitude -7.496197 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 272 m² to 147,419 m² (14.74 ha, 36.43 acres); 28 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2450211: 147,419 m² (14.74 ha, 36.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2450211.md - Parcel 266187: 102,603 m² (10.26 ha, 25.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/266187.md - Parcel 240234: 93,576 m² (9.36 ha, 23.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240234.md - Parcel 238563: 91,493 m² (9.15 ha, 22.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/238563.md - Parcel 5127177: 54,294 m² (5.43 ha, 13.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5127177.md - Parcel 228466: 53,949 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/228466.md - Parcel 248562: 52,375 m² (5.24 ha, 12.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/248562.md - Parcel 253866: 44,669 m² (4.47 ha, 11.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/253866.md - Parcel 245558: 42,900 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/245558.md - Parcel 261242: 38,563 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261242.md - Parcel 5110807: 27,432 m² (2.74 ha, 6.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5110807.md - Parcel 234272: 11,095 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/234272.md - Parcel 261856: 7,636 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261856.md - Parcel 268350: 5,123 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268350.md - Parcel 258482: 5,056 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/258482.md - Parcel 5160712: 4,840 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160712.md - Parcel 5160654: 3,673 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160654.md - Parcel 255406: 3,168 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255406.md - Parcel 265648: 2,733 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265648.md - Parcel 267669: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/267669.md - Parcel 228247: 1,915 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/228247.md - Parcel 260632: 1,761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260632.md - Parcel 2486205: 1,284 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2486205.md - Parcel 265399: 1,166 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/265399.md - Parcel 250093: 1,033 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/250093.md - Parcel 5987642: 926 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5987642.md - Parcel 4958060: 767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958060.md - Parcel 257824: 759 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257824.md - Parcel 5160653: 744 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5160653.md - Parcel 257842: 565 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/257842.md - Parcel 4688932: 383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4688932.md - Parcel 4958063: 373 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958063.md - Parcel 4958059: 360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958059.md - Parcel 4958069: 272 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4958069.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 16 Apr 2025, Laois County Council 2560222: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560222/0 - 10 Sept 2020, Laois County Council 20461: Conditional. Permission. construct i) Cubicle shed with slatted tanks, ii) roofing collecting yard with slatted tank and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20461/0 - 23 Jun 2020, Laois County Council 20310: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20310/0 - 11 Jul 2018, Laois County Council 18414: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18414/0 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 Cross. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cross. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cross. ## 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 Cross, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cross. - 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/laois/cross.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/cross.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/cross.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghaboe: https://everytownland.com/laois/aghaboe.md - Ballycuddahy: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballycuddahy.md - Coolfin: https://everytownland.com/laois/coolfin-100407.md - Corraun: https://everytownland.com/laois/corraun.md - Farraneglish Glebe: https://everytownland.com/laois/farraneglish-glebe.md - Friarsland: https://everytownland.com/laois/friarsland.md - Gortnagroagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/gortnagroagh.md - Skeagh: https://everytownland.com/laois/skeagh.md - Springfield or Knockkyle: https://everytownland.com/laois/springfield-or-knockkyle.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/laois/cross - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/cross