Crantahar
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Crann Tachair
Parcel 970808
- Area
- 50,074 m² (5.01 ha, 12.37 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it, 570 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Crantahar
Planning applications on this parcel
16 Jul 2026Refused
Retention permission to include four single storey general storage buildings, three single storey buildings comprising twenty five number rental self storage units, one single storey general storage building incorporating 11 number rental self storage units, one 2-storey building comprising offices and general storage, caretaker apartment and independent toilet facility for site use, together with septic tank and percolation area, ancillary concrete yards and storage compounds, site entrance, circulation and lighting, and all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660565
14 Apr 2021N/a
Construction of storage shed for storing straw, agricultural equipment and agricultural equipment and artificial fertilizer, including all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21345
25 May 2017N/a
EXTEND EXISTING FARMYARD FACILITY BY CONSTRUCTING A SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE SLAB WITH ADDITIONAL YARD AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17404
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 48 ha
- 119 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 11,587 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crantahar, from 116 m² to 63,688 m² (6.37 ha, 15.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Crantahar 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 Jul 2026Refused
Retention permission to include four single storey general storage buildings, three single storey buildings comprising twenty five number rental self storage units, one single storey general storage building incorporating 11 number rental self storage units, one 2-storey building comprising offices and general storage, caretaker apartment and independent toilet facility for site use, together with septic tank and percolation area, ancillary concrete yards and storage compounds, site entrance, circulation and lighting, and all ancillary site works and services
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660565
14 Apr 2021N/a
Construction of storage shed for storing straw, agricultural equipment and agricultural equipment and artificial fertilizer, including all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21345
25 May 2017N/a
EXTEND EXISTING FARMYARD FACILITY BY CONSTRUCTING A SLATTED LIVESTOCK UNIT AND ANCILLARY CONCRETE SLAB WITH ADDITIONAL YARD AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17404
24 Mar 2017Conditional
10 YEAR PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT 38KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17214
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Crantahar.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crantahar.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crantahar.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Crantahar.
- 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 Crantahar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Crantahar · Crann Tachair
- Area
- 479,925 m² (47.99 ha, 118.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Caraun, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Caraun electoral division: 349 people in 138 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Ballygowan, Cartronnacross, Drumkeen
- Placenames
- Crantahar 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.