Cross

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 427 m² to 168,553 m² (16.86 ha, 41.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Residential (Existing residential)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Recreation/Amenity/Green Space (Open space, park)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Community facilities)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 21 May 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a vehicular gated entrance with boundary fence/wall to service an existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2560100

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  the proposed construction of a detached garage

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2513

• 24 Feb 2023Conditional

  1) construction of a new extension to an existing house necessitating the demolition of existing previous extensions & including works to the existing house; 2) demolition of an existing semi-detached dwelling with the conversion of the remaining semi-detached dwelling into accommodation ancillary to the main house and to be connected to the main house by a link corridor extension; 3) a new replacement road entrance & driveway with the closing of 3 existing road entrances; and 4) all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2341

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  for proposed construction of storey and half type dwelling, detached garage, proposed entrance and boundary wall/fence, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1790

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

• LF019-052 Cross
  Description

  In level pasture, beneath two oak trees. Described in 1837 as 'the pedestal of a cross, at which the people perform stations. This must have been one of the crosses of the termon of Ardagh' (OSL, 39). Remains consist of a fragment of a cross-base with a subrectangular socket set in it (SMR file, 1977). The stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.4m; H 0.1m), known locally as 'St Patrick's Knee', is set within a modern-looking, crescentic-shaped, low cairn (2m N-S; 1.6m E-W; H 0.25m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

• LF019-086 Enclosure
  Description

  In level, low-lying pasture. A slightly raised rectangular area (c. 38m NW-SE; c. 30m NE-SW) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.2m; H 0.2-0.3m) with a shallow, infilled, external fosse. From SW-W-WNW the bank and fosse have been modified where the bank is incorporated into a field boundary. The monument is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW field boundary. The smaller portion, to the SE, has been levelled but its outline is still identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 January 2012

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cross.

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

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

836,156 m² (83.62 ha, 206.62 acres)

Civil parish

Ardagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ardagh

Electoral division

Ardagh East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh East electoral division: 730 people in 265 households; 88% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh Demesne, Back of The Hill, Ballinreaghan, Barney, Breany, Lyanmore, Meeltanagh

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.