Croan Upper
Townland in the civil parish of St. Mary's Clonmel, barony of Glenahiry, Co. Waterford; in Irish Cruán Uachtarach
- Area
- 19 ha
- 47 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 1,336 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- RS
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croan Upper, from 319 m² to 10,985 m² (1.1 ha, 2.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- R2RS (Existing residential)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 9 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - R4SRR (Strategic Residential Reserve)
WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 May 2023Conditional
to construct a single-storey rear extension to our dwelling, make modifications to the existing dwelling and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 2360206
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Croan Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Croan Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croan Upper.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Croan Upper.
- 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 Croan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Waterford.
The townland
- Name
- Croan Upper · Cruán Uachtarach
- Area
- 190,379 m² (19.04 ha, 47.04 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Mary's Clonmel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenahiry
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- St. Mary's electoral division: 733 people in 273 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Croan Lower (Co. Tipperary), Croan Lower, Kilgainy Lower, Kilgainy Upper, Poulnagunoge, Spa
- Placenames
- Croan Upper 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.