Cranasallagh

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranasallagh, from 150 m² to 101,831 m² (10.18 ha, 25.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Cranasallagh 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  Single storey dwelling, sewage treatment system and on-site soil polishing filter system, proposed site entrance, domestic garage, and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660052

• 31 Jan 2026N/a

  a single storey dwelling, sewage treatment system and on-site soil polishing filter system, proposed site entrance, domestic garage, and all associated site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660049

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 Cranasallagh.

Recorded monuments

• OF007-020 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Not visible at ground level. According to local information site was levelled several years ago. Described by Reynolds (1977) as a subcircular area (diam 34m NW-SE) enclosed by a low bank with stone facing in places. No evidence of an external fosse or entrance feature The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballycumber Railway Station, railway station, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former railway station, built in 1862, by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company on the Portarlington to Athlone Midland line. Flanking single-storey bays to east and west and extension to west. Now used as a private house. Set back from the road, adjacent to railway track. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls. Replacement uPVC windows with stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and overlight. Station bounded by random coursed limestone wall to roadway with granite stone piers and wrought-iron gate giving access to corrugated-iron shed to north, across railway tracks.

• Prospect Bridge, bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch masonry railway bridge, built c.1859, by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company. It carries a minor road from Ballycumber over the Portarlington Athlone railway line. Abutments of rusticated limestone blocks, laid to courses and with tooled quoin edges. Segmetal profile to arch. Deck is slightly curved. Spandrels and parapets are of coursed blocks with plain faces. Rusticated string course.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1798 (ZIP).

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 Cranasallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cranasallagh · Greanach Salach

Area

1,505,526 m² (150.55 ha, 372.02 acres)

Civil parish

Lemanaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Tinamuck, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinamuck electoral division: 300 people in 95 households; 94% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycumber, Clonshanny, Grogan and Corroe, Moorock, Wilton

Placenames

Cranasallagh 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.