Crean
Crean is a townland in the civil parish of Monagay, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Crián.
Parcel 1590031
- Area
- 2,305 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 259 m².
- 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
- Crean
Planning applications on this parcel
24 May 2023Conditional
hay and straw store, slatted unit for cattle, calfhouse, garage for the storage of road transport vehicles, demolish 2 no. store houses, construction of 2 no. entrances off the public road. Retention permission of 2 no. roadside hedges and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23269
17 Sept 2021Conditional
the construction of a domestic garage to accommodate private and vintage cars, along with storage areas
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211302
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_412 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 82.1 ha
- 203 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 4,308 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crean, from 17 m² to 147,906 m² (14.79 ha, 36.55 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crean 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
28 May 2026N/a
the partial demolition works carried out to the existing dwelling house, and planning permission to complete the demolition of the remaining structure. Planning permission is also sought for the permanent closure of the original entrance to the property, and for the change of use of the existing agricultural entrance previously permitted under Planning Reference 23/269, to serve solely as the domestic entrance to the proposed dwelling house. Planning permission is further sought for the construction of a new replacement dwelling house, garage, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank system and the installation of a replacement wastewater treatment system and all associated ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660599
24 Nov 2025Conditional
piers, electric gate and splayed hedging to an existing agricultural entrance and the laying of internal passageways
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561223
29 Aug 2025Conditional
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 20/835: for construction of a private dwelling with separate garage, onsite wastewater treatment and disposal system, entrance, front boundary wall and carry out all associated site works.
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257022
9 Jul 2025N/a
construction of a dwelling house with separate garage, waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance, front boundary wall and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560677
25 Apr 2025Conditional
a change of house type from previously approved planning permission ref no 20-835 and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560363
8 Aug 2024N/a
the construction of a single storey dwelling house with covered carport, entrance, driveway, septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24321
24 Jul 2024Conditional
the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling house. The works will include: the construction of extensions with an attached car-port and garage to the existing house, the demolition of an existing detached garage, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank system and the installation of a replacement wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. Retention is also sought for the upgrade of the existing agricultural entrance to a domestic entrance as-built and permission to complete the upgraded entrance and to block the old domestic entrance
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460738
26 Feb 2024Conditional
garage, screen wall located between garage & dwelling house. Also for 2no. entrances to dwelling as constructed in lieu of the single vehicular entrance, permission under planning application referance 82/21918
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2462
30 May 2023Refused
the construction of a new dwelling house with domestic garage, entrance, wastewater treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site and ancillary works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2360365
24 May 2023Conditional
hay and straw store, slatted unit for cattle, calfhouse, garage for the storage of road transport vehicles, demolish 2 no. store houses, construction of 2 no. entrances off the public road. Retention permission of 2 no. roadside hedges and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23269
13 Apr 2022Conditional
the development of a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22419
26 Nov 2021Conditional
demolition of existing dwelling and sheds and construct a replacement dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211635
17 Sept 2021Conditional
the construction of a domestic garage to accommodate private and vintage cars, along with storage areas
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211302
28 May 2021N/a
a single storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21752
27 Aug 2020Conditional
construction of a private dwelling with separate garage, onsite waste water treatment and disposal system, entrance, front boundary wall and carry out all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20835
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 Crean.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-111 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (36.6m N-S; 32.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.55m), with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.8m) NW->SE. Gap (Wth 5m) in scarp at SE. Edge of site quarried on N side; drain runs southwards from quarry across interior. Site enclosed by field boundary SE->WNW; portion of boundary recently removed WSW->NW. Interior level, waterlogged and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-113 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 26m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 3.1m). Internal bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 1.6m) runs full circuit but external bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.3m) survives only SW->NW and NE->E. Bushes have been planted along outer line of fosse SE->WSW. Field boundary abuts external bank at SE. Interior is level, and in rough marshy pasture with some overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-115 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked oval enclosure (c. 45m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crean.
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 Crean, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_412 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Crean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Crean · An Crián
- Area
- 821,126 m² (82.11 ha, 202.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monagay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Monagay, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,260 people lived in 446 households in the Monagay electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyconway, Ballymurragh East, Ballynahown, Glendarragh, Rahanagh, Rathcahill East
- Placenames
- Crean 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.