Crosshill
Townland in the civil parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 106.7 ha
- 264 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 2,851 m² (0.29 ha, 0.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crosshill, from 325 m² to 453,795 m² (45.38 ha, 112.14 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Crosshill 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Feb 2022N/a
Retention permission for the following: 1. Retain two number domestic balconies; 2. Retain a single storey domestic extension to the rear and side of the existing domestic dwelling; 3. Retain a domestic outbuilding and all ancilliary works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2291
1 Feb 2022N/a
1. To retain two number domestic balconys. 2. To retain a single storey domestic extension to the rear and side of the existing domestic dwelling;. 3. To retain a domestic outbuilding and all ancillary works. The works are located at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2249
24 Jan 2022N/a
Retention Permission:1. To retain two number domestic balconies; 2. To retain a single storey domestic extension to the rear and side of the existing domestic dwelling; 3. To retain a domestic outbuilding and all ancillary works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 2226
3 Jun 2021N/a
retention of a garden room to the rear of existing private dwelling, all ancillary works at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21300
20 Apr 2021N/a
for a garden room on rear of house at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 21198
17 Aug 2018Conditional
of extension to dwelling house and retention of domestic garage (which is attached to the existing dwelling house) with associated site development works at
Retention, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 18413
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Natural Heritage Area: Kilronan Mountain Bog NHA 000617
Recorded monuments
- RO002-024 Sweathouse
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and built into an artificial scarp on a S-facing slope with a deserted farmstead just to the W. There are two conjoined chambers, the E is rectangular (int. dims.1.25m x 1.1m; H 1m) with a lintelled roof and with an entrance at S (Wth 0.45m; H 0.65). It is connected by an open hatch (Wth 0.85m; H 0.2m; L 0.7m) to the W chamber which is D-shaped (int. dims. 1.2m N-S; 0.8m E-W; H 1.2m) with a corbelled roof and which has an entrance (Wth 0.4m; H 0.5-0.85m; L 1.15m) at S. Sweathouse (RO002-025----) is c. 240m to the ENE. See the attached external (003) and internal (016) views. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO002-025 Sweathouse
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and built into the steep SE-facing slope of Kilronan Mounatin beside a spring with a farmstead c. 30m to the E. Rectangular stone-built chamber (int. dims. 1.17m x 1.26m; H 1.55m) with vertical walls and a lintelled roof. The entrance (Wth 0.55m; H 0.6m) is at E. Sweathouse (RO002-024----) is c. 240m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO002-026 Sweathouse
Description
Marked only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and built into an earthen bank on the steep SE-facing slope of Kilronan Mountain beside a stream and with a house c. 20m to the N. It was removed in 1963 and is no longer visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crosshill.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Crosshill.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Crosshill, Keadue5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Crosshill
- Area
- 1,067,020 m² (106.7 ha, 263.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Keadew, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Keadew electoral division: 544 people in 188 households; 71% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bolarry, Corgorman, Derreenavoggy, Dromore, Kilronan Mountain, Lurgaboy, Mullaun
- Placenames
- Crosshill 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.