Croghan

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croghan, from 1,362 m² to 168,509 m² (16.85 ha, 41.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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.

• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Birr Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 6 Oct 2023Conditional

  A ten year Planning Permission. The development will consist of: (i) The provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) from the townland of Townparks to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow to facilitate the connection of the proposed Carrig Renewables Wind Farm development to the national grid; (ii) Provision of 4 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the proposed underground electrical cabling route; (iii) Reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; and, (iv) All associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus considered necessary to facilitate the proposed development. The development subject of this application will facilitate the connection of the proposed 7 no. wind turbine Carrig Renewables Wind Farm to the national electricity grid. A concurrent application for the Carrig Renewables Wind Farm development has been lodged to Tipperary County Council. The proposed development includes underground cabling works located within the public road corridor within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (Tipperary RPS Ref. TRPS519 Croghan Bridge). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360140

• 22 Sept 2023N/a

  a ten-year planning permission. The development will consist of: (i) The provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) from the townland of Townparks to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow to facilitate the connection of the proposed Carrig Renewables Wind Farm development to the national grid; (ii) Provision of 4 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the proposed underground electrical cabling route; (iii)reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; and, (iv) all associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus considered necessary to facilitate the proposed development. The development subject of this application will facilitate the connection of the proposed 7 no. wind turbine Carrig Renewables Wind Farm to the national electricity grid. A concurrent application for the Carrig Renewables Wind Farm development will also be lodged to Tipperary County Council. The proposed development includes underground cabling works located within the public road corridor within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (Tipperary RPS Ref. TRPS519 Croghan Bridge). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared in respect of the planning application and will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2360120

• 22 Sept 2023Refused

  (1) The construction of 7 no. wind turbines and associated hardstand areas with the following parameters a) total tip height range of 179.5m – 185m, b) rotor diameter range of 149m – 163m, c) hub height range of 103.5m to 110.5m; (2) 1 no. permanent 38kV electrical substation which will be constructed in the townland of Faddan Beg consisting of a single storey control building with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and equipment, battery energy storage system, security fencing, all associated underground cabling, wastewater holding tank and all ancillary works and equipment; (3) All works (within County Tipperary) associated with the connection of the proposed wind farm to the national electricity grid, via the provision of underground electrical cabling (38kV) to the existing Dallow 110kV substation in the townland of Clondallow, Co. Offaly; (4) Provision of 10 no. joint bays, communication chambers and earth sheath links along the underground electrical cabling route; (5) reinstatement of the road or track surface above the proposed cabling trench along existing roads and tracks; (6) all associated underground electrical and communications cabling connecting the turbines to the proposed wind farm substation; (7) 1 no. meteorological mast with a height of 107m above ground and associated foundation and hard-standing area; (8) upgrade of existing tracks and roads and the provision of new site access roads; (9) all works associated with the provision of a new permanent site entrance off the L5040 local road; (10) provision of 5 no. new access and egress points along the L5041 local road in the townlands of Cloncorig, Faddan More and Coolderry; (11) Provision of 4 no. peat repository areas and 3 no. spoil repository areas; (12) 2 no. temporary construction compounds with temporary site offices and staff facilities; (13) Accommodation works along the public road network along the N52 national secondary road in the townland of Ballyloughnane to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal sized loads; (14) Site Drainage; (15) Tree Felling; (16) Operational stage site signage; and, (17) all associated site development works, ancillary works and apparatus. - Works within the curtilage of Protected Structures RPS Ref. TRPS336 (Ballyloughnane Bridge) and RPS Ref. TRPS519 (Croghan Bridge)

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360763

• 5 May 2023Conditional

  an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2360305

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dovegrove Callows 000010

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croghan.

Architectural heritage

• Croghan House, house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan five-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1770, having two-storey nineteenth-century addition and later single-storey flat-roof extension to rear. Slate roofs, hipped to main roof, pitched to return and early extension and having rendered chimneystacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods and bracketed eaves. Rendered walls. Timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two pane to main house and six-over-six pane to return, and recent replacement uPVC windows to single-storey rear additions and to basement, all with limestone sills. Bay window to south elevation of main house. Timber panelled door in limestone block-and-start doorway with limestone lintel and plain fanlight and approached by limestone steps. Single-storey stone outbuilding having pitched slate roof and brick surrounds to openings.

• Croghan Bridge, bridge, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch stone bridge, built c.1750, carrying local road over River Camcor. Random coursed stonework with ashlar arch rings. V-shaped cut-waters upstream and downstream. River bank accessed by stone steps. Modern railings mounted on upstream parapet.

• Birr Castle, bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch bridge, built c.1860, over River Camcor, and set within Birr Castle demesne. Yellow brick soffits and arches to segmental arches, brick parapets, snecked rock-faced limestone to spandrels and roughly dressed limestone to piers and to upstream cut-waters. Plaque to parapet depicting earlier bridge of 1640 most likely from another structure elsewhere in Birr area. Earlier three-arch bridge had castellated parapets over river bank.

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 Croghan, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1618 (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.

No address of the register names Croghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.

Name

Croghan · Cruachán

Area

1,923,939 m² (192.39 ha, 475.42 acres)

Civil parish

Loughkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Ormond Lower

Electoral division

Riverstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

609 people lived in 214 households in the Riverstown electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Derrinsallow, Dovegrove (Co. Offaly), Killeen, Killenaule, Townparks (Co. Offaly)

Placenames

Croghan 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.