Cross

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 2,266 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 130,150 m² (13.02 ha, 32.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Cross 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Cross in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Bricklieve Mountains and Keishcorran SAC 001656
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bricklieve Mountains & Keishcorran 001656

Recorded monuments

• SL039-031 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Bóthar an Corann or Bothar na Slieve connected the town of Ballymote, Co. Sligo with Boyle, Co. Roscommon by a route around the SW side of Kesh Corran and to the W of the Bricklieve Mountains, a distance of c. 20km. According to Timoney and Timoney (2001, 21), Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl of Ulster, is credited with building this road to get from his castle at Ballymote (SL033-092----) into Roscommon. This entry deals only with that part of the road in Co. Sligo, i.e. from close to Ballymote as far as the Roscommon border. The road traverses a number of townlands over a number of the 1914 edition of the OS 6-inch sheets: OS 33: Ardsallagh/ Corhober/Mullaghcor; OS 39: Ardsallagh/Knocknacroy/Cross/Cloonagh/ Knocknawhishoge; OS 40:Carrowreagh/Dernaskeagh; OS 45: Meenmore/ Derrygolagh/Dernaskeagh. A possible link road between Bothar an Corann and Bothar an Iarla Ruaid (SL033-147---) goes from Greenan townland, around the S side of the Bricklieve Mountains, to Ballinafad. Sections of Bóthar an Corann are recorded as five separate records (SL033-145---; SL039-031----; SL040-143----; SL040-153----; SL045-002----) commencing at Ballymote and following the route SE to the county boundary with Roscommon. Only sections of the road are indicated on these maps though it was, of course, continuous. This section (SL039-31----) is a relatively long portion (L c. 2.3km). It is mainly orientated NW-SE, is tarred and is in use as a byroad. It is 3-4m wide and is flanked by walls, which in parts have been replaced by post-and-wire fencing. A section (L 0.8km) of the road that extends from Knocknacroy into Knocknawhishoge is not tarred and survives as a grassed-over metalled track flanked by field fences and currently used as a farm trackway. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of revision: 1 June 2011

• SL039-032 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In the corner of a field, on a N-facing slope. A waterlogged muddy overgrown area and some moss-covered stones mark the site of the well. A local legend, recorded in 1836, told that the mother of Cormac Mac Airt gave birth to Cormac while collecting water at Tober Cormac but while she was asleep the baby was taken by a wolf to a cave at Kesh (SL039-034----) to SE; some years later Cormac was returned to his mother (OSL, 161). A stretch of the road known as Bothar an Corann (SL033-145----) is c. 80m to the SW. (Kielty 2001, 4) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-164 Platform
  Description

  This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-165----; SL039-166----; SL039-167----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. It consists of a sub-circular area (c. 2m N-S by c. 3.5m E-W) quarried out of the hill side. The quarried material was used to create a level platform. The precise nature of these monuments is unknown: it does not seem likely that they functioned as quarries and a full elucidation must await further investigation (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2014 Image SL039-164----_01 shows the scooped-out area viewed from the N.

• SL039-165 Platform
  Description

  This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-164----; SL039-166----; SL039-167----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. It consists of a sub-rectangular area (c. 9m N-S by c. 17m E-W to the edge of the plaform) quarried out of the hill side. The quarried material was used to create a level platform. A number of grass-covered stones are visible in the interior and form no precise arrangement. It is possible that they have fallen from the scree on the higher slope above. The precise nature of these monuments is unknown: it does not seem likely that they functioned as quarries and a full elucidation must await further investigation (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2014 Image SL039-165----_01 shows the scooped-out area viewed from the SW. Image SL039-165----_02, a view looking W from above the monument, shows the full extent of the platform area.

• SL039-166 Platform
  Description

  This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-164----; SL039-165----; SL039-167----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. It is located up-slope and to the SW of SL039-165----. It consists of a sub-circular area (c. 8.5m N-S by c. 8.5m E-W) quarried out of the hill side. The quarried material was used to create a level platform. The precise nature of these monuments is unknown: it does not seem likely that they functioned as quarries and a full elucidation must await further investigation (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2014 Image SL039-166----_01 shows the scooped-out area viewed from the NW. Image SL039-166----_02, looking N, shows the extent of the platform.

• SL039-167 Platform
  Description

  This is one of four platform-like features (SL039-164----; SL039-165----; SL039-166----) cut into the steep W facing lower slope of Kesh Corran hill. This monument consists of two conjoined scooped-out areas that define a wedge-shape measuring c. 12.5m N-S by 5m at the S narrowing to 3.5m at the N. The quarried material was used to create a level platform. The precise nature of these monuments is unknown: it does not seem likely that they functioned as quarries and a full elucidation must await further investigation (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 19 January 2014 Image SL039-167----_01 shows the scooped-out areas viewed from the S

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cross, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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 Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

402,035 m² (40.2 ha, 99.35 acres)

Civil parish

Toomour, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Drumrat, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 203 households in the Drumrat electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonagh, Feenaghroe, Greyfield, Knocknacroy, Murhy, Tonaponra

Placenames

Cross 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.