Craan

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craan, from 644 m² to 200,661 m² (20.07 ha, 49.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Craan 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.

• 15 Apr 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF THE CONVERSION OF ATTIC/ROOF SPACE TO HABITABLE L

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20190496

• 11 Oct 2018Granted (conditional)

  PLANNING PERMISSION FOR AN UNDERGROUND SLATTED STORAGE TANK FOR YARD RUN OFF COL

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20181397

• 23 Oct 2017N/a

  PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF ATTIC CONVERSION WHICH INCLUDES 2NO BEDROOMS, 3NO

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20171375

• 5 Jul 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLA

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170870

• 30 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A STEEL FRAMED AGRICULTURAL SHED CONSISTING OF SLATTED TANKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170837

• 29 Jun 2017N/a

  PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170827

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 Craan.

Recorded monuments

• WX021-007 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked faintly as rectangular enclosure (dims. c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) with a moat or bank on the E and S sides on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on the crest of a scarp down to the W-E Ballyedmond River, c. 100m to the N. It is not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 June, 2012

• WX021-008 Enclosure
  Description

  Marked as large D-shaped embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 120m NW-SE; c. 110m NE-SW) with the straight side (L c. 75m) at SW on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is situated on a slight N-facing slope with the W-E Ballyedmond River c. 100m to the N. A portion of a fosse (Wth 2.5m) and traces of bank (H c. 0.3m) were visible N–S (diam. c. 45m) in the 1940s (SMR file) but are not visible at ground level in a cereal crop. An outline of the enclosure is visible on the OSI series of aerial photographs (2000) with a wide fosse feature (Wth c. 15m) visible SE-S-W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 15 June, 2012 Amended: 29 April, 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Craan, about 1 in 20 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 Craan.

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 Craan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Craan · An Corrán Mór

Area

671,231 m² (67.12 ha, 165.86 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamanagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballaghkeen North

Electoral division

Wells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

887 people lived in 295 households in the Wells electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvally, Ballyduff, Boira North, Coolharbour, Cullentra, Greenhall

Placenames

Craan 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.