Crossery

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crossery, from 1,833 m² to 291,984 m² (29.2 ha, 72.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Crossery 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.

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Waterford City and County Council, 22810

• 25 Aug 2022N/a

  for construction of a dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, percolation area, well and associated site works

  Permission · Waterford City and County Council, 22749

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 Crossery.

Recorded monuments

• WA034-020001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the base of a steep S-facing slope of the NW-SE ridge of Cairnglass Hill, at a point where a N-S spur extends off to the SW of the site and also where a less severe SE-facing slope leads down to the N-S Blackwater River, which is c. 800m to the E. This is a subcircular scrub-covered area (dims. 36m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-5m; int. H 0.2m at S (downslope) to 1.5m at N; ext. H 0.5-1.5m) which is reduced to an external scarp (H 3m) at S, with external stone-facing SW-NE and internal stone-facing SSE-SSW. There is no visible fosse, and the entrance (Wth 2.4m) at SE is now blocked. A souterrain (WA034-020002-) is S 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

• WA034-020002 Souterrain
  Description

  Situated within rath (WA034-020001-), c. 9m S of the centre. A collapsed souterrain chamber is visible as a depression (diam. c. 3m; D 0.5m) with some lintels at the surface. 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: 07 September 2011

• WA034-069 Standing stone
  Description

  Located on a shelf at the bottom of a steep SW-facing slope of Carnglass Hill, and above a gentler S-facing slope. This is an Old Red Sandstone monolith with smooth faces and a rectangular cross-section (dims. 0.45m x 0.15-0.25m; H 1.85m) oriented NW-SE. 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: 06 October 2011

• WA034-070 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. This is a D-shaped, grass-covered area (dims. 50m N-S; c. 25m NE-SW) defined by scarp (H 0.3m) N-SE and truncated by a NW-SE road bank at SW. It is regarded locally as the site of a ‘lios’. 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: 06 October 2011

• WA034-071 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated on a rise on a SW-facing slope. Two grass-covered, stony mounds (diam. 13m; H 0.3-1m: diam. 9m; H 0.2m) were recorded in 1990. There is now one mound that could be natural. 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: 06 October 2011

• WA034-072 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Located on a SW-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 20m to the W. This is an oval grass-covered mound of broken and burnt stone (dims. 16m x 13m; H 0.3-0.8m). 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: 06 October 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Crossery, 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 Crossery.

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

Name

Crossery · An Crosaire

Area

936,740 m² (93.67 ha, 231.47 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcockan, and its townlands

Barony

Coshmore and Coshbride

Electoral division

Kilcockan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

240 people lived in 95 households in the Kilcockan electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyroe, Carnglass, Kilcockan, Sleveen, Strancally

Placenames

Crossery 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.