Crannagh

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crannagh, from 52 m² to 59,644 m² (5.96 ha, 14.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 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.

• 6 Jul 2018N/a

  for a four bay single slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 249 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18950

• 7 Sept 2017Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank, percolation area and all associated site services (Gross floor space of proposed works House 128.2sqm, Garage 31.36sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171327

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 Crannagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-060 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 39.5m) defined by a scarp and external fosse. Field walls cut the monument at NW and NE, and at SW and SE; no visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives to N or S of them. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, having projecting porch to front, and single-storey flat-roof extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystack to ridge, and stone copings to gables with skew corbels. Lime rendered random rubble walls, having raised parallel quoins to gable ends. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, render surrounds, and painted stone sills. Square-headed timber glazed entrance door. Set back from road with random rubble and concrete boundary wall to road and farmyard to rear. Concrete-walled metal-roofed outbuildings to south, and single-storey nineteenth-century outbuilding at right angles to house having corrugated-iron roof and limewashed random rubble limestone walls.

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 Crannagh, 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 Crannagh.

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

Name

Crannagh · An Chrannach

Area

423,445 m² (42.34 ha, 104.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

551 people lived in 197 households in the Castleblakeney electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Course, Gallagh, Greenville

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.