Cruit
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeane, barony of Athlone North, Co. Roscommon
- Area
- 21.9 ha
- 54 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 5,336 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cruit, from 29 m² to 58,312 m² (5.83 ha, 14.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 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 Cruit 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
13 Oct 2022Refused
Permission for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, installation of tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area, plus all ancillary works (A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with the application) at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 22551
21 Sept 2022N/a
Permission for construction of dwelling house and domestic garage, installation of tertiary treatment system & infiltration / treatment area, plus all ancillary works, (The planning application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)) at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22506
9 May 2017Refused
Permission Consequent on the grant of outline permission (Ref. No. PD/11/394 outline permission) to construct 2 No. dwelling houses, 2 No. waste water treatment systems and all associated site works at
Permission consequent, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17208
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cruit.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cruit.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cruit.
- 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
No address of the register names Cruit with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Cruit
- Area
- 218,794 m² (21.88 ha, 54.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Athlone North
- Electoral division
- Kilteevan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilteevan electoral division: 553 people in 185 households; 90% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Lackan
- Placenames
- Cruit 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.