Crossconnell More

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossconnell More, from 127 m² to 125,557 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Crossconnell More 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.

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a set down area inside the wall of the school, to relocate existing Statue, install a bicycle shelter with collision barriers, to install EV charging points with collision barriers, new staff parking, new disability parking, new entrance & exit, existing surface water drainage system to be extended, flexible traffic bollards to be installed in setback area to front of school wall, and all associated services & site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360529

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  for Replacement of the existing septic tank and percolation area with proposed new waste water treatment system and raised soil polishing filter including all ancillary site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171111

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 Crossconnell More.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-077 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating farmland. Named 'Fort' on OS Fair Plans and marked on OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 40m) cut by a number of field boundaries. All that is now visible is an apparently natural mound. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-078 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1946-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

• GA099-079 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in farmland. Poorly preserved almost circular enclosure (E-W 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a low earthen bank, best preserved from N through E to S. A low earth bank running E-W through the interior may be associated. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-080 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 41m) defined by a low bank. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element from W to NNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-081 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a ridge summit in grassland. Oval rath (N-S 37.5m, E-W 24.8m), in fair condition, defined by two degraded banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the fosse or outer bank survives from SSW to NNW. A gap (Wth 3.1m) at SE may be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-082 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 120m N of another ringfort (GA099-057----). Poorly preserved overgrown circular rath (D 38m) defined by bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from ENE to S. A gap (Wth 2.5m) at SW may be original. In the centre of the interior is a shallow grassy subrectangular hollow (L 4m, Wth 2m) running N-S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-082001 Souterrain
  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.

• GA099-082002 School
  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.

• GA099-083001 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.

• GA099-083002 Graveyard
  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 Augustine's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Roman Catholic church, built c.1820, having three-bay north-south nave elevation, with altar to south end, gabled entrance porch to north end, gabled side chapel to centre of west elevation now in use as side chapel, gabled sacristy to centre of east elevation, with square-profile two-stage tower with spire set into east elevation. Sprocketed pitched slate roofs with metal cross finials, cast-iron rainwater goods, and octagonal-profile cut limestone spire to tower with cut-stone cross finial, eaves course and crenellations and square-profile pointed corner pinnacles. Painted wet dashed rendered walls with smooth render plinth course, inscribed limestone memorial plaque to west elevation, with cut-stone plinth and carved cornice. Tower has cut-stone string courses and round panel with carved stone surround. Pointed arch window openings with chamfered limestone surrounds and sloped sills, having louvres to tower, and having stained-glass windows to other openings. Square-headed window opening with chamfered limestone surround and sloped sill to bottom stage of tower, with stained-glass window. Pointed arch door openings to west side of porch, north sides of sacristy and former porch, with chamfered limestone surround and double-leaf timber battened door, having leaded coloured glass overlight to sacristy and side chapel. Interior of church having glazed timber screen to side chapel, carved marble altar furniture, timber gallery to west end, and stained-glass windows. Situated on elevated site, with graveyard to site. Square-profile rendered piers with recent double-leaf vehicular gates and pedestrian gate, with rendered quadrant walls with terminating piers. Rubble stone boundary walls.

• Clontuskert National School, school, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay single-storey school and master's house, dated 1835, main east-west block being school proper, with gabled entrance porches to each end of front elevation, and three-bay two-storey teacher’s house at right angles to rear. Slate roof, pitched to school and pitched to house, with rendered chimneystacks, and having gabled ridge vents to school, and pitched slate roofs to porches. Roughcast walls with plaque inscribed: "Clontouskert [sic] National School AD 1835". Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills, and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to school, blocked windows to east elevation, and having replacement timber windows and door to house. Square-headed door openings to inner elevations of entrance porches, having timber battened doors. Rubble stone boundary walls delineating garden to 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 Crossconnell More, 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 Crossconnell More.

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

Name

Crossconnell More · Crois Chonaill Mhór

Area

724,715 m² (72.47 ha, 179.08 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Atticoffey West, Cappagh, Chapelpark, Crossconnell Beg, Drum, Eskerkeel, Garryduff, Glenaun, Gortnahorna (Clanricarde)

Placenames

Crossconnell More 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.