Craughwell

125 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craughwell, from 31 m² to 105,377 m² (10.54 ha, 26.04 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 Craughwell 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Craughwell in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Craughwell.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-069 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland to the W of the Athenry-Limerick railway line. This partially overgrown subrectangular children's burial ground (L 18.15m; Wth 15m) is defined by a drystone field wall along the S, W and N sides and by the railway boundary wall on the E side. Numerous recumbent grave-markers are visible but in the SW sector an number of small upright set examples survive. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 August 2019

• GA096-070 Church
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Colman's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Free-standing gable-fronted T-plan Roman Catholic church, built c.1840, having five-bay nave and single-bay transepts, shallow chancel, and with square-plan tower over gable-front. Three-bay two-storey parochial house attached to east gable. Pitched copper roof having cut-stone cross finials and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered crenellations with cut-stone finials and cross to tower, pebbledashed walls to tower. Painted pebbledashed walls with render plinth course. Pointed arch window openings having painted stone hood-mouldings, painted block-and-start surrounds and stone sills with stained-glass windows. Tower has pointed arch opening to front with timber louvres and with hood-moulding, and oculi to other faces. Pointed arch door openings to gable-front and to transept gables, having carved stone hood-mouldings with cut and carved limestone door surrounds and timber battened double-leaf doors, that to gable-front having stained-glass multi-pane overlight. Interior having marble altar furniture, timber gallery with ogee-headed arcade detail to handrail, gallery supported on square-plan columns and pilasters, with moulded cornice. Square-headed door opening with double-leaf timber panelled doors set within front porch. Painted smooth rendered walls and plastered ceiling with decorative mouldings and stained-glass windows. Church set on corner site within its own site having several grave markers and bounded by recent rubble stone walls to front. Parochial house is three-bay, two-storey, with pitched slate roof and rendered central chimneystacks, roughcast walls and replacement uPVC porch and windows.

• Water tower, 1940–1980 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding reinforced concrete circular-plan water tower, built c.1960, consisting of three-stage tower supporting slightly water holding tank. Painted rendered walls having recessed panels to faces giving effect of having tall pilasters, and having stepped detailing to base of water tank. Square-headed window openings with fixed metal-framed windows. Square-headed door opening having painted metal door and cantilevered concrete canopy. Set back from road in own grounds, with metal fencing to boundary.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with decorative raised ridge, having low rendered chimneystacks. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings having painted stone sills and four-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening having timber panelled and glazed door. House facing onto main street.

• Grenage Bridge, bridge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying Ennis to Athenry railway line over local road. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone piers and buttresses. Segmental arch with tooled rock-faced rusticated voussoirs and dressed stone soffit to elliptical arch. Parapet rebuilt in concrete blockwork with recent railings above.

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 Craughwell, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Craughwell with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Craughwell · Creachmhaoil

Area

586,704 m² (58.67 ha, 144.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killora, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Craughwell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,092 people lived in 690 households in the Craughwell electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 55% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Crinnage or Ballywulash, Doonard, Killora, Templemartin

Placenames

Craughwell 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.