Croan

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croan, from 26 m² to 71,020 m² (7.1 ha, 17.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Croan 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.

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  ofa single-storey domestic outbuilding for the ancillary use of the primary dwelling with loft accommodation. Planning Permission - the development will consist of works to the existing single-storey dwelling with attic accommodation, including: 1) the demolition of an existing conservatory on the side (north-facing) elevation. 2) the construction of a single-storey wrap-around extension to the side (north-facing) elevation and the rear (west-facing) elevation to attach the existing domestic store to the primary dwelling, 3) to change the use of the existing domestic store adjoining the dwelling to residential accommodation. Other works as part of the development include alterations of all elevations, reconfiguration of internal layouts, roof lights, the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system and the installation of a new on-site EPA-compliant wastewater treatment system and percolation area, and all associated site development works.

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560828

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  to 1. Demolish existing front porch &; rear extension 2. Remove existing dormer window and install new dormer window & roof light to front roof of cottage 3. Construction of a part 2 storey, part single storey extension to rear of cottage 4. Upgrade of existing wastewater system to current EPA Standards

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560377

• 3 Jan 2023Refused

  of Planning Permission Reference P17/454

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 231

• 24 Sept 2021Unconditional

  of Planning Permission Reference P17/260

  Extension of duration · Kilkenny County Council, 21796

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21784

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a two storey dwelling on site as granted planning 051456 (on site No.3 on that planning), also new detached garage, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21516

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

  for dwelling house (increased floor area) and garage as constructed, with slight alterations to site layout as per drawings, including all necessary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 21298

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  for erection of a dwelling house, domestic garage / store, installation of a treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 20195

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission for a part single storey, part two storey private residence, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, bore well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18653

• 23 May 2018Refused

  for a two storey dwelling, detached garage, vehicular entrance and driveway, bore well, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 18335

• 10 Jul 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a one and half storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and a raised bed soil polishing filter, bore well, entrance to public road together with all other associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17454

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, sewerage treatment system and percolation area, including all necessary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17260

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 Croan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Croan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Croan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Croan · An Cruán

Area

1,117,404 m² (111.74 ha, 276.12 acres)

Civil parish

Aghaviller, and its townlands

Barony

Knocktopher

Electoral division

Aghaviller, the unit of the census

Census 2022

477 people lived in 163 households in the Aghaviller electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaviller, Ballintee, Ballinva, Newmarket, Sheepstown, Tuitestown

Placenames

Croan 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.