Crag
Townland in the civil parish of Abbeyfeale, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Chraig
- Area
- 272.3 ha
- 673 acres
- Land parcels
- 71
- registered freehold, median 4,620 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crag, from 59 m² to 397,924 m² (39.79 ha, 98.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crag 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
1 May 2026N/a
(A) Construct a 2 storey building to contain dressing rooms, accessible toilets, meeting rooms, viewing balcony with all associated areas, (B) Install a new on site mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, (C) Install new flood lighting to replace existing pitch lighting system, (D) alteration to existing parking areas with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660495
17 Oct 2024Conditional
domestic garage with lean to an all ancillary works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 24409
10 Jul 2017Conditional
the demolition of the existing dwelling house and the construction of a new single storey dwelling house complete with a mechanical waste water treatment unit followed by a sandcel sand filter and a soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17661
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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI052-002 Children's burial ground
Description
In pasture, on steep S-facing slope overlooking valley of River Feale. Site defined by two parallel earthen banks, 16.8m apart, running N-S. These are linked at S end by scarped edge (H 0.55m). Bank on W side (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.3m) runs c. 9m before gradually petering out at N end. Bank on E side (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.35m) runs N for 31.5m where it is truncated by E-W field boundary. Along inside edge of E bank is area of dumped stones (c. 7.5m E-W; c. 9m N-S), marked at N end by thorn bush. Otherwise interior under grass with no evident burial plots or grave markers. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crag.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Crag.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crag with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Crag · An Chraig
- Area
- 2,722,590 m² (272.26 ha, 672.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Abbeyfeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Caher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caher electoral division: 400 people in 136 households; 95% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caher (Hayes), Derra (Co. Kerry), Dromtrasna South, Mountcollins
- Placenames
- Crag 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.