Craggs

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craggs, from 1,425 m² to 223,460 m² (22.35 ha, 55.22 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 Craggs 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.

• 3 Sept 2026N/a

  to construct new cubicle shed with slatted tanks, feed passage, dungstead and all associated site works.

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2692

• 14 Sept 2024Conditional

  extensions to the front and rear of the existing original dwelling together with alterations to existing original dwelling and for a single storey domestic garage attached to the side of the existing original dwelling.

  Retention, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460531

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  for development consisting of the demolition of the existing dwelling and shed and the construction of a new single storey dwelling, associated enclosed patio area with walls using stone reclaimed from demolition works, new garage, new private water well and new wastewater treatment system and coco filter together with all associated site development works.

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2460314

• 13 Sept 2022Conditional

  to erect a two-storey dwelling house, a domestic garage with attic storage space, an on-site sewage treatment system, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22807

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  the construction of 2 cattle underpass, slatted effluent tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2065

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 Craggs.

Recorded monuments

• WA034-022001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the crest of the SW-facing slope of a broad hill. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 41.2m N-S; 40.2m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5-8.5m; int. H 0.3m at N to 1.2m generally; ext. H 1.7m at E to 3m at W) and outer fosse (Wth of top 5-7m; Wth of base 2.2-2.5m; D 0.5-1m), with an external field bank S-W. The original entrance is not identified. A souterrain (WA034-022002-) is c. 8m W of the centre. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011

• WA034-022002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within rath (WA034-022001-), where it is c. 8m W of the centre. Described by Forsayeth (1911a; 1913a) as Z-shaped in plan (L c. 10.65m) with a rectangular chamber (dims. c. 3.4m x c. 1.3m; H c. 1.5m). It is now collapsed, but its outline can be traced. Forsayeth, G. W. (1911a) Notes and queries – ‘Souterrrain at Cragg’, WAJ 14, 140-41. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 September 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Craggs, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Craggs.

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 Craggs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.

Name

Craggs · Na Creaga

Area

1,308,410 m² (130.84 ha, 323.32 acres)

Civil parish

Clashmore, and its townlands

Barony

Decies Within Drum

Electoral division

Clashmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

466 people lived in 178 households in the Clashmore electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolbagh, Curradarra, Knockanearis, Reanaboola, Tinnascart

Placenames

Craggs 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.