Crosslea
Crosslea is a townland in the civil parish of Ematris, barony of Dartree, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Chrois Liath.
- Area
- 54.5 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 54,578 m² (5.46 ha, 13.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crosslea, from 1,977 m² to 224,389 m² (22.44 ha, 55.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Crosslea 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
5 Oct 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a two-storey extension to the rear/side of existing dwelling, wastewater treatment system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17481
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 Crosslea.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crosslea.
Architectural heritage
- Crosslea House, house, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey house, dated 1840, with single and two-storey lean-to additions to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof having paired red brick chimneystacks, terracotta ridge tiles, and some cast-iron guttering. Roughcast rendered walls. Date stone to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and timber sliding sash windows, having one-over-one panes to front elevation and six-over-six panes to east elevation, and steel-framed windows to rear. Elliptical-headed door opening, having timber panelled double-leaf door flanked by panelled pilasters and flanking timber panels in place of sidelights, the whole surmounted by spoked fanlight with moulded timber lintel having triglyphs and dentils. Single and two-storey outbuildings to east of house, having pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Set in landscaped grounds with some specimen trees. Entrance to roadside to west, square-plan rendered piers, and double-leaf wrought-iron traffic gate.
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 Crosslea, about 1 in 20 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 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 Crosslea.
- 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 Crosslea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Crosslea · An Chrois Liath
- Area
- 545,391 m² (54.54 ha, 134.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ematris, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dartree
- Electoral division
- Dawsongrove, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 752 people lived in 261 households in the Dawsongrove electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Crosslea 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.