Crooksling

98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crooksling, from 30 m² to 518,604 m² (51.86 ha, 128.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• G3HA-DM (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 75 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1RU (Agriculture)
  South Dublin County Development Plan 2022-2028, South Dublin · 43 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

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Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slade Of Saggart And Crooksling Glen 000211

Recorded monuments

• DU021-049 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on the E side of the Slade Valley. The land, which is fern covered, falls away steeply to the WNW. Cairn mentioned by Ua Broin (1957, 44). There are no visible surface remains above ground. Compiled by Geraldine Stout

• DU024-010 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on the summit of the Verschoyles Hill. A ring- barrow shown on the 1843 OS 6-inch map as a hachured enclosure (diam. c. 37m). It was described by Ua Broin (1957, 43) as a low rath, enclosing a very small circle somewhat higher than the outer one and close to the S side of the latter. The site was ploughed and planted with trees in 1965 (Healy 1975, 1-19). This area is referred to in the OS Letters (1837) as 'Lauree' or 'Lathair na Riogh' on Saggart Hill (O'Flanagan 1927, 22). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

• DU024-011 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated at the summit of a narrow elongated ridge on the lower SE slopes of the Verschoyles Hill, enjoying extensive views of Tallaght and Lugmore to the N and Seahan Mountain to the E. A ring-barrow initially discovered from aerial photographs taken by BKS in 1978 (2776052/3). It comprises a circular raised area (int. diam. 19m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) and inner silted-up fosse (Wth 1.5m; D 0.15m). The bank is very denuded in the W but well preserved in the N and there are breaks at NE, E, and S. Within the interior in the SW and E are a number of furze-covered clumps that may indicate a stone feature. In the SE there is a single boulder (L 0.55m; Wth 0.36m; D 0.3m). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

• DU024-012001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Holy well annotated 'Toberagh' on the 1837 ed. OSi 6-inch map and as site of on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Also known locally as Tobar na cCluas, this well is situated in the townland of Crooksling in the parish of Saggart, to the E of a river valley and the N81. The site of this well is along the entranceway to an Eastern Health Board Nursing Home. Holy well site described by Ua Broin (1957, 45) as follows; ' 'Toberagh (site of' is on Ordnance maps inside the Sanatorium entrance. Map 6 shows a pond on each side of the by-road there. A pump-house now stands at the site of one, and that of the other is now filled, planted ground. To the west of the latter there was a holy well, and perhaps others, as would seem from the likely derivation of the name toibreacha (wells). Tobrachs, a plural form of the anglicised name, is now in use. Tobar na cCluas, the holy well just mentioned, is described in OSL as " a small crevice in rock through which a little stream of very good water issues. It is never dry and cures the headache and earache by drinking of its waters and saying some prayers, hence Tobar na cCluas, the Ear-Well'. Enquiries as to memory of old holy well practices here were fruitful only to the extent of ascertaining that up to sixty years ago or thereabouts it was a custom with school children to leave pieces of rag or buttons, etc., at the well if they drank from it. The rock from which the stream issued is shown on OSD, on which also a stone which looks like a tau-cross is shown. A block of stone, on which there was an incised cross about 4 ins. by 3 ins., is remembered as being near the well. It was probably the broken-off horizontal part of this cross, and its disappearance, also that of the well, may be attributable to ground disturbance when the site was being cleared for the Sanatorium buildings. By one of those who remember the place as it was many years ago the site of the well was pointed out as quite near the mortuary, where, it is of interest to learn, the patients have resorted as a place of prayer during the last twenty years or so. An improvised kneeling board marks the place, also pious pictures, medals, etc., placed in joints of rough dry masonry sheltered by laurels. Random adoption of the place as one for prayer was unlikely, so it may be taken that selection was influenced by local tradition'. These have been removed and the area planted (Herity 2001, 29). Today there are no surface remains visible (Healy 1975, 1-19). Folklore collected from Brittas School recorded the following tradition about this well; 'The entrance into the Crooksling Sanatorium was formally called, the Tubberacks because there was a blessed well there once called Saint Ann's well' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 468; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428216/4386751/4456867). Firhouse School recorded the following details about this well; 'TOBAR na CLUAS On Tallaght Hill Cure for ear and head-aches' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0795, Page 024; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4428218/4386848/4456564). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 20 April 2023

• DU024-012002 Cross-inscribed stone
  Description

  Situated to the E of a river valley and the N81. A block of stone with a cross-inscribed formerly stood near the well known as 'Toberna gcluas' (DU024-012001-, Ua Broin 1957, 45). This was cleared away when the modern sanitorium was erected. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

• DU024-014 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated to the W of Mountseskin Road. Marked on the current 1937 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, truncated along the N by a field boundary (diam. c. 30m). According to Ua Broin (1957, 46) this area was called 'Carraig na ffiach'. Part of the site was demolished during field division in the 19th century. Not visible at ground level (Healy 1975, 1-19). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

• DU024-015 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated in recently cleared upland pasture by the roadside close to Mountseskin. The site appears as a slightly raised platform of earth and stone (diam. c. 16m; H 0.4m) (Healy 1975, 1-19). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

Architectural heritage

• Farmyard complex, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey farm house, c.1800. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Timber casement windows. Lean-to porch with timber tongue and groove door. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered chimney stack. Single-bay rubble stone extension to the north with corrugated iron roof and timber tongue and groove door. Three outbuildings to the east of rubble stone construction with corrugated-iron roofs. Buttressed corrugated iron clad structure to north end of house.

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 Crooksling, 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_3050 (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 Crooksling with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Dublin.

Name

Crooksling · Cnoc Slinne

Area

2,196,867 m² (219.69 ha, 542.86 acres)

Civil parish

Saggart, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Saggart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

6,248 people lived in 1,791 households in the Saggart electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 70% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherboy, Corbally, Lugg, Mountseskin, Raheen, Slade

Placenames

Crooksling 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.