Cragg

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cragg, from 64 m² to 151,784 m² (15.18 ha, 37.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Cragg 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  1) existing private domestic garage as constructed, 2) existing entrance, wing walls and piers as constructed and 3) existing front boundary stone and sod fence and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25161

• 5 Aug 2025N/a

  1) existing private domestic garage, as constructed, 2) existing entrance, wing walls and piers, as constructed and 3) existing front boundary stone and sod fence and all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 25156

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  1) 1 no. portacabin consisting of reception & grooming area, 2) 13 no. dog kennels and holding pin, 3) extension to dwelling, and 4) domestic shed, and Permission to 1) erect an advertising sign at entrance and 2) install a raised percolation area with all associated site works

  Retention · Tipperary County Council, 17601371

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 Cragg.

Recorded monuments

• TN031-048001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the walls of a castle and a Barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 179). John Ryan is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Present remains consist of a rectangular tower house (ext. dims. 8.7m N-S; 6.6m E-W; wall T 1.7m) three storeys high built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with a high pronounced base-batter. There is good evidence of lime plaster on the internal faces of the walls of the tower house chambers. The external face of the S wall is destroyed and originally contained a round-arched rebated limestone doorway of which only one jambstone survives on the W side with evidence of a yett-hole. The main doorway led into a lobby protected by an overhead murder-hole. Access to spiral stairs (now destroyed) in the SW angle was via this lobby, with the main ground-floor barrel-vaulted chamber being reached via a round-arched limestone doorway in the N wall of the lobby. This chamber has a single-light flat-headed window set into the centre of the W, N and E walls with a brick fireplace inserted into the N end of the W wall. The first floor, which was accessed through a doorway in the centre of the S wall, had a wooden ceiling carried in the thickness of the wall. This floor was lit by single-light flat-headed windows set into the centre of the W, N and E walls. The second floor has a barrel-vaulted ceiling and is accessed from a round-arched limestone doorway in the centre of the S wall. In the NW angle there is a flat-headed doorway, now inaccessible, which probably led to a garderobe. Nineteenth-century outhouses now obscure a possible bawn area (TN031-048002-) located to the N and W of the tower. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

• TN031-048002 Bawn
  Description

  Situated on rock outcrop in an upland area with extensive views. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the walls of a castle and a Barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 179). John Ryan is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Present remains consist of a rectangular tower house (TN031-048001) three storeys high built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with a high pronounced base-batter. Nineteenth-century outhouses now obscure a possible bawn area (TN031-048002) located to the N and W of the tower. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Cragg House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-pile three-bay single-storey house with dormer floor, built c. 1880, with lower three-bay two-storey block to rear of west end. Gabled porch projection to middle bay and gabled ends with projecting chimneystacks to north elevation. Pitched slate roofs with decorative timber bargeboards with finials and cut limestone chimneystacks with single, paired and tripled round-plan chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with single, double and paired one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, latter with combined sills. U-plan layout of stable blocks comprising L-plan single-storey blocks flanking central three-bay two-storey block, latter with integral segmental carriage arches and whole now converted to dwellings, with pitched slate roofs, gabled dormers and snecked dressed limestone walls. Enclosing wall with gate piers. Limestone entrance gate piers with stone caps.

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 Cragg, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1148 (ZIP).

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.

• Cragg, Birdhill8 sales

Name

Cragg · An Chraig

Area

1,605,218 m² (160.52 ha, 396.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcomenty, and its townlands

Barony

Owney and Arra

Electoral division

Kilcomenty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

743 people lived in 247 households in the Kilcomenty electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaholty, Ballyard, Cooleen, Gortnavarnoge, Killeen, Touknockane

Placenames

Cragg 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.