Cromlin

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cromlin, from 399 m² to 70,477 m² (7.05 ha, 17.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cromlin 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.

• 1 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) construct a single storey domestic extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, (2) renovate and restore the existing dwelling, (3) upgrade the existing waste water treatment to current EPA code of practice, and all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2460039

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cromlin Bridge Wood 001409

Recorded monuments

• LE022-005 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  Situated at the outer edge of a shelf of rock outcrop on a S-facing slope. This is a grass-covered D-shaped area (int. dims 33.5m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by a cliff at S (H c. 8m), by an earthen bank (Wth 5-7m; int. H 0.4m at N to 1.2m at E; ext. H 0.3m at N to 1.8m at E) NW-N-SE and a partly rock-cut fosse SW-N-SE that is most massive at W (Wth of top 12.5m; Wth of base 2.2m; int. D 2.2m; ext. D 2.4m) and E (Wth of top 9.5m; Wth of base 3.5m; int. D 1.8m; ext. D 2.2m), but is very slight at N (Wth of top 10m; Wth of base 4.5m; int. D 0.3m; ext. D 0.2m). The entrance (Wth 5m) is at N. St Patrick's holy well (LE022-015----) is c. 15m to the SE, across a NE-SW public road. John O’Donovan writing in the 1830s identified Cromlin with the location of the pagan idol known as Crom Cruach. The image was reputedly destroyed by St Patrick, after which he conducted baptisms at the well (Herity 2012, 397-8). The source, the Tripartite Life, is unreliable, and Dalton (1921-4, 33-36) places the location of Crom Cruach in a hilltop enclosure (CV013-022----) in Co. Cavan, which seems more reasonable. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 26 January 2017

• LE022-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the floor of a small NE-SW valley. This is an overgrown circular platform (diam. 25m NW-SE; 24m NE-SW; H 1.4m generally to 2m at SW, downslope) surrounded by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 5.4 at NW to 9m at SE; Wth of base 2-3.5m; ext. D 0.8-1.1m) NW-SE and by a berm (at SW: Wth 5m) elsewhere. A leat runs from the fosse at SW, but an original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE022-015 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Located c. 5m S of a NE-SW road and on the E side of the N-S Castlerogy stream, which is c. 65m distant. A crude setting of stones defines a small well (dims 0.7-0.9m; max. H 1.2m), known locally as St Patrick's Well, beneath a large tree. The well is now dry and no longer venerated but the dedication to St Patrick had been recorded in the 1830s by John O’Donovan, who identified Cromlin with the location of the pagan idol known as Crom Cruach. The image was reputedly destroyed by St Patrick, after which he conducted baptisms at the well (Herity 2012, 397-8). The source, the Tripartite Life, is unreliable, and Dalton (1921-4, 33-36) places the location of Crom Cruach in a hilltop enclosure (CV013-022----) in Co. Cavan, which seems more reasonable. The cliff-edge fort (LE022-005----) is just across the road to the N from this holy well. (Blaney 1944, file no. 128) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Cromlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Cromlin · Cromghlinn

Area

637,177 m² (63.72 ha, 157.45 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Oughteragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Oughteragh electoral division: 98 people in 46 households; 93% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Curraghnabania, Dernasmallan, Derrinkeher (Brady), Kilnamaddyroe, Liscuilfea, Unshinagh

Placenames

Cromlin 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.