Cromoge

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cromoge, from 212 m² to 216,631 m² (21.66 ha, 53.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Cromoge 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.

• 17 Dec 2021Conditional

  construct a two storey dwelling house, new entrance, garage with stables, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 21884

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shanahoe Marsh 001923

Recorded monuments

• LA017-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Visited on St Fintan's feast day, the 17th of February. Pebbles from it are thought to act as preservatives against shipwreck or accidental death (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 337). Situated in undulating countryside. A clear spring visible. Cremogue church and graveyard (LA017-014001/002-) located 180m to the N of the holy well. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-013001 Bullaun stone
  Description

  Situated in undulating countryside. Cremogue church and graveyard (LA017-014001/002-) located 180m to the N of the holy well (LA017-013----) and bullaun stone. Holy well visited on St Fintan's feast day, the 17th of February. Pebbles from it are thought to act as preservatives against shipwreck or accidental death (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 337). The bullaun stone is located beside the holy well on the edge of the watercourse running out of the well. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 04 May 2012

• LA017-014 Church
  Description

  Dedicated to St. Fintan who resided here before moving to Clonenagh (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 337-338). Situated in an elevated position. An early medieval undivided church (L c. 36m; Wth c. 11.4m; Wall T 0.8m) built of roughly coursed rubble limestone with a late medieval two storey residential tower built onto W end of church. Original sandstone round arched doorway of twelfth century date located in centre of W gable was later rebuilt in the late medieval period when residential tower was added to W end of church. Doorway at first floor level located off centre to N in W wall of church gives access to second floor of tower and W gallery of church. Broken out window located off centre to W in S wall of church. Broken out window in centre of E gable of church. Beam holes visible in the W end of the N wall of the church which carried the timber joists of a first floor or gallery at W end of church. Visible inscribed headstones post date 1700 AD. Holy well (LA017-013) dedicated to St Fintan and bullaun stone (LA017-013001-) lies c. 180m to SSW. Described by Comerford (1886, vol. 3, 337) as a church 40 ft. in length with a small east window, and a round headed doorway in the west gable and a Gothic-shaped aperture, seemingly a passage into the tower higher up. The square tower placed at the west end is evidently of much more modern date than the church. An old stone causeway (LA017-014002-) is said to have formerly extended between Cremogue and Clonenagh, portions of which may still be traced. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

• LA017-014001 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated in an elevated position. Dedicated to St. Fintan who resided here before moving to Clonenagh. (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 337-338). A divided nave and chancel church (LA017-014) built of rubble limestone, roughly coursed. Visible inscribed headstones post date 1700 AD. Roughly square shaped graveyard (int. dims. 31m N-S; 44m E-W) enclosed by a stone wall containing post 1700 AD memorials. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cromoge, 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 Cromoge.

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 Cromoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Cromoge · An Chromóg

Area

1,478,092 m² (147.81 ha, 365.24 acres)

Civil parish

Clonenagh and Clonagheen, and its townlands

Barony

Maryborough West

Electoral division

Raheen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

495 people lived in 148 households in the Raheen electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnadarrig, Bawnaree, Cappanacloghy, Derryroe, Foxburrow, Mountfead, Parkavilla

Placenames

Cromoge 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.