Cross

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 291 m² to 228,647 m² (22.86 ha, 56.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3HA (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  WCCC Development Plan 2022 - 2028, Waterford · 31 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  to raise levels of existing agricultural lands using clean inert soil and stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504) in order to improve the quality of said lands .An application for a waste disposal permit will be sought post planning permission

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2660566

• 19 Aug 2025N/a

  raise levels of existing agricultural lands using clean inert soil and stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504) in order to improve the quality of said lands . An application for a waste disposal permit will be sought post planning permission

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560572

• 7 Aug 2025N/a

  raise levels of existing agricultural lands using clean inert soil and stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504) in order to improve the quality of lands . An application for a waste disposal permit will be sought post planning

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 2560548

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  to retain indefinitely the single storey, detached house, with it’s associated development works of entrance from adjoining public road (R683), driveway, surrounding path and front apron and also the necessary services as installed, including water supply and wastewater disposal of treatment plant and percolation bed

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560452

• 23 Jun 2025N/a

  to retain indefinitely the single storey, detached house, with it’s associated development works of entrance from adjoining public road (R683), driveway, surrounding path and front apron and also the necessary services as installed, including water supply and wastewater disposal of treatment plant and percolation bed all on the site

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560435

• 31 Jan 2025N/a

  to retain indefinitely the single storey, detached house, with it’s associated development works of entrance from adjoining public road (R683), driveway and surrounding path and front apron and also the necessary services as installed, including patented wastewater treatment plant and percolation bed, and on site water supply

  Retention · Waterford City and County Council, 2560053

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  to raise levels of existing agricultural lands using clean inert soil and stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504) in order to improve the quality of said lands . An application for a waste disposal permit will be sought post planning

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 221064

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  to increase annual delivery volumes of inert soil & stones (EU Waste Class 17 0504) in order to continue infilling an existing disused quarry (previously granted under 14/186) on agricultural lands

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 18217

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 Cross.

Recorded monuments

• WA018-005 Moated site
  Description

  Visible on vertical aerial photographs (ACAP, V165/130-31), and situated at the bottom of a valley on a W-facing slope. Rectangular grass-covered area (dims. 42m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.1-0.3m) at W and S, a field bank at N and a slope down to the site at E. 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. Compiled by Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 31 July 2010

• WA018-067001 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. A concentration of burnt and broken stones with black clay covering a wide area is visible in ploughsoil. Burnt mound (WA018-067002-) is c. 60m to the S. 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. Date of upload/revision: 23 December 2008

• WA018-067002 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a gentle E-facing slope. A concentration of burnt and broken stones with black clay covering a wide area is visible in ploughsoil. Burnt mound (WA018-067001-) is c. 60m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 16 February 2011

Architectural heritage

• Foxmount, house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1770, possibly over basement retaining original fenestration. Extensively renovated and extended, c.1920, comprising single-bay two-storey recessed lower flanking end bays having three-bay two-storey side elevations, and pair of single-bay single-storey box bay windows added to ground floor. Hipped slate roofs (behind parapets to additional end bays) with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks, and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Unpainted rendered walls (ivy-clad) with rendered cornices to box bay windows, and rendered coping to parapets having ball finials. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. 6/6 and 6/9 timber sash windows with timber casement windows to box bay windows, and to ground floor side elevations. Round-headed door opening under cut-stone Corinthian doorcase approached by flight of three cut-stone steps with open-bed pediment over, timber panelled door, sidelights on timber panels, and decorative fanlight. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own grounds with gravel forecourt, and landscaped grounds to site.(ii) Detached two-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding, c.1770, to south-west. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on squared rubble stone eaves. Random rubble stone walls with lime mortar. Square-headed window opening with stone sill, lintel, and timber fitting. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door.(iii) Gateway, c.1920, to north-west comprising pair of painted rendered channelled piers with rendered coping, timber flanking pedestrian gate having rendered channelled outer pier, painted rendered flanking walls having rendered coping, and painted rendered channelled terminating piers.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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 Cross.

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.

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

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

919,132 m² (91.91 ha, 227.12 acres)

Civil parish

Kill St Nicholas, and its townlands

Barony

Gaultiere

Electoral division

Faithlegg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Faithlegg electoral division: 2,115 people in 765 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabola, Ballyvoreen, Barristown, Carriglea, Cross, Kill St. Nicholas, Knocknagappul

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.