Crossmorris

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossmorris, from 211 m² to 153,336 m² (15.33 ha, 37.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Crossmorris 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.

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  for (a) As constructed door to window to front elevation to existing single storey house. (b) As constructed double doors to side elevation and window to side elevation to existing single storey house. (c) As constructed rear extension to existing single storey house with all associated site development works

  Retention · Kildare County Council, 2560984

• 27 Aug 2025N/a

  of (a) As constructed door to window to front elevation to existing single storey house. (b) As constructed 2 x double doors to side elevation and window to side elevation to existing single storey house. (c) As constructed rear extension to existing single storey house with all associated site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 2560970

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dormer dwelling, foul water to on site effluent treatment system and percolation area, surface water to soakaways, access to be shared via an existing domestic entrance & laneway and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Kildare County Council, 22675

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 Crossmorris.

Recorded monuments

• KD022-022 Cross - Wayside cross
  Description

  On the N-verge of the road. A lozenge-shaped, limestone block (max. dims L 1.2m; Wth 1m; H 0.47m) with a shallow rectangular mortice (dims. L 0.4m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.15m). According to Fitzgerald (1918-19, 258), ' ... (a) cross was erected to the memory of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, Knt., of Lackagh, who was slain at this spot in 1520 in an affray with Con mac Melaghlin O'More of Leix, Chief of his name. Of this cross, only two portions are now known to exist - (1) the socketed base known as the "Wart Stone"; and (2) a portion of the shaft, richly sculpted, now at Kilkea Castle (KD037-017----). (Fitzgerald 1891, 250-51; Crawford 1907, 237; Strath 1935-8, 191-4; Price 1959, 166; Tickell 1960, 369) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 06 December 2011

• KD022-036 Enclosure
  Description

  The monument is shown on the 1st. ed. (1838) of the OS 6-inch map as a large, roughly sub-circular area (est. diams. c. 60m E-W; c. 50m N-S) defined by a bank with straight portions along the N, E, SE, SW and NW, and is visible on an aerial photograph (GSI S 219) which shows the cropmark of a narrow fosse enclosing a sub-rectangular or oval area. In 1986, a slight depression (dims c. 27m N-S; 11m E-W) was visible at this location (SMR file). On a gentle, NE-facing downslope in mixed tillage and pasture. The local field boundaries shown on the current ed. (1939) of the OS 6-inch map have been removed. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 22-12-2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crossmorris.

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

At the centre of the townland of Crossmorris, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Crossmorris.

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.

No address of the register names Crossmorris with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kildare.

Name

Crossmorris

Area

678,729 m² (67.87 ha, 167.72 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Offaly West

Electoral division

Lackagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

841 people lived in 265 households in the Lackagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cherryville, Kilnagornan, Lackagh Beg, Mooretown, Rathwalkin, Redhills

Placenames

Crossmorris 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.