Crosses

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crosses, from 12 m² to 135,999 m² (13.6 ha, 33.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 Crosses 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.

• 10 Apr 2025Conditional

  planning Permission for a development which will consist of the following: •New poultry layer house together with 2no. meal storage bins attached to the northern side of the existing facility previously granted planning permission on Pl. Ref. No. 10/337. •relocate existing covered manure storage/loading area and conveyor equipment, •underground washdown water storage tank (5000 gallons), •a new site entrance inwards only and the existing entrance will become exit only, •together with all associated site service details, landscaping and all ancillary site works. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013.An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560153

• 21 Dec 2018Conditional

  permission for development works on low lying lands to include (a) Upgrading of existing entrance to facilitate the works (b) The stripping back of existing topsoil material (c) The deposit of inactive or inert waste such as subsoil (approximately 42000 tonnes) to increase level of land (d) The covering of deposited inactive or inert waste with topsoil material to make good land for the purpose of agriculture.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18601

• 7 Dec 2017Conditional

  Permission to construct 1 no. pig house, together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin (s) and soiled water tank(s)) and ancillary site works (to include upgraded site entrance). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) has been submitted with this application.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17587

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 Crosses.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crosses.

Architectural heritage

• Crosses Protestant Hall, hall, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former Protestant hall, dated 1890, having single-storey addition recessed to east end, and porch to south elevation. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, with timber eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Moulded terracotta corbels forming bracket course below rainwater goods. Polychrome red and yellow brick chimneystack to east gable. Rendered red brick walls, with smooth rendered eaves course and exposed plinth course, cut limestone quoins to corners of building. Carved shield-shaped date plaque above window to west gable inscribed 'CROSSES PROTESTANT HALL 1890'. Segmental-headed window openings to long walls with limestone sills, and round-headed window opening to west elevation, all window openings boarded up. Square-headed door opening to west elevation of porch with timber battened door, with three limestone steps. Segmental-headed door opening to south elevation of addition, having timber battened door and three concrete steps. Wrought-iron gate to west, with ogee arch and scroll details. Located to south-east of cross roads.

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 20 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 Crosses.

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 Crosses with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Crosses · Na Crosa

Area

1,096,384 m² (109.64 ha, 270.92 acres)

Civil parish

Monaghan, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Rackwallace, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rackwallace electoral division: 974 people in 315 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghnagap, Ardaghy, Beagh, Bellanagall, Carrickanoran, Greaghglass, Moyles

Placenames

Crosses 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.