Crannagh

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crannagh, from 582 m² to 332,101 m² (33.21 ha, 82.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Crannagh 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.

• 24 Feb 2026N/a

  extend and renovate existing cottage, provide new septic tank and percolation area, demolish existing shed and replace with new shed and relocate main entrance to existing agricultural entrance

  Permission · Laois County Council, 2660099

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  extend and renovate existing cottage, provide new septic tank and percolation area, demolish existing shed and replace with new shed and relocate main entrance to existing agricultural entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2660101

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  construct a calf shed and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 19697

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
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

• LA016-014002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a natural hill, NW of the River Nore. A circular area (diam. c. 51m) with an almost flat-topped raised interior, surrounded by a fosse (Wth c. 6.3m) and external bank (Wth c. 8m, int. H c. 1.4m). Possible original entrance with causeway at E. 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

• LA016-014003 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  A landscape feature; not an archaeological monument. 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

• LA016-041001 Metalworking site
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 or 1909 eds OS 6-inch maps. Remains of a mound of glass waste (diam. c. 50m) now partly quarried away. Defined by dry-stone walling (L c. N-S5.05m; E-W 8.7m). Heaps of glass waste visible. Remains are of an eighteenth century glass working factory. (Inf. from owner of Crannagh house). Remains not of a glassworks but of a seventeenth / eighteenth century Ironworks which has waste slag that looks like glass. 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

• LA016-041002 Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
  Description

  Not marked on the 1841 or 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Discovered 66m NNW of Ironwworks (LA016-041001-). The base of wooden uprights were visible in the stream. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Crannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Crannagh · Crannach

Area

1,890,397 m² (189.04 ha, 467.13 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Clonin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonin electoral division: 243 people in 84 households; 90% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Badgerhill, Ballyhorahan, Camphill, Clonin, Clonincurragh, Danganroe, Derryduff, Derrynaseera, Gossbrook, Larch Hill

Placenames

Crannagh 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.