Kilcruaig
Kilcruaig is a townland in the civil parish of Kilflyn, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Coill Chruóige.
- Area
- 229.3 ha
- 567 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 24,878 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcruaig, from 2,051 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 460,323 m² (46.03 ha, 113.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kilcruaig 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
16 Jun 2025Conditional
erection of a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560576
18 Jun 2024Conditional
the construction of a vehicular entrance, single storey dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system and polishing filter; together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460604
21 Nov 2019Conditional
the construction of a car-port/external covered patio area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191145
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: Carrigeenamronety Hill SAC 002037
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrigeenamronety Hill 002037
Recorded monuments
- LI056-045 Earthwork
Description
In upland pasture 160m W of the townland boundary with Garryarthur and 200m NW of a large forestry plantation. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Shown on the Cassini 6-inch map ed. as a raised semi-circular-shaped area (dims. c. 22m NE-SW; 16m NW-SE) defined by a scarp from SW-N-E. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 November 2021
- LI059-002 Earthwork
Description
In reclaimed grassland with enclosure (LI059-003----) 125m to E. No surface remains visible of earthwork depicted as a small raised platform on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not indicated on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map indicating that the earthwork was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Faint outline of levelled earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021
- LI059-003 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed grassland with earthwork (LI059-002----) 125m to W. No surface remains visible of levelled enclosure depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Faint outline of levelled enclosure (diam. c. 25m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 October 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kilcruaig.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Kilcruaig, 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 high, 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 Kilcruaig.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kilcruaig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Kilcruaig · Coill Chruóige
- Area
- 2,292,985 m² (229.3 ha, 566.61 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilflyn, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilflyn, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 231 people lived in 86 households in the Kilflyn electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Abbey, Ballydonohoe, Coolavehy, Garryarthur, Gortacurrig (Co. Cork), Keale
- Placenames
- Kilcruaig 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.