Craffield

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craffield, from 39 m² to 499,838 m² (49.98 ha, 123.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Craffield 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.

• 2 Dec 2022Conditional

  1. demolition of existing sub-standard rear and side extensions comprising of approx. 59sqm, resulting in the existing dwelling having a gross floor area of 88sqm; 2. construction of a new 308sqm single storey extension consisting of a living block, a 4-bed bedroom block and an entrance and link element; 3. construction of a 68sqm basement; 4. renovation of and internal alterations to existing dwelling; 5. construction of a new wastewater treatment system; 6. Creation of pond water feature to front of existing dwelling; 7. new 20sqm service structure to house plant and equipment to facilitate renewable technologies; 8. new vehicular entrance; 9. all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221289

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  dwelling, well, effluent treatment system, upgrading existing entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 201251

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 Craffield.

Recorded monuments

• WI034-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a gentle S-facing slope. Oval area (dims. 46.8m N-S; 30m E-W) defined from NW-NE by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; H 0.8-1.2m). To the S of an E-W drain which divides the site in half, the perimeter is marked by a gentle scarp. There is a possible entrance (Wth 2.5m) at the N. No indication of a fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Craffield, about 1 in 5 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3157 (ZIP).

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 Craffield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Craffield · Creamhchoill

Area

2,181,507 m² (218.15 ha, 539.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballykine, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,973 people lived in 655 households in the Aughrim electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughrim Upper, Balleeshal, Cappagh, Killaduff, Roddenagh, Sheeana More, Sheeanabeg (Robeck), Sheeanabeg (Whaley)

Placenames

Craffield 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.