Crosswood

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crosswood, from 154 m² to 233,160 m² (23.32 ha, 57.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Crosswood 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.

• 10 May 2017Conditional

  To construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and single dwelling treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 177086

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Crosswood Bog SAC 002337
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Crosswood Bog 000678

Recorded monuments

• WM029-029 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on N-facing slope of a ridge running NW-SE, to the immediate N of Athlone-Mullingar railway line, on the E edge of Athlone town. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not depicted on any ed. OS maps. Levelled monument described in 1973 as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 07 November 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1668 (ZIP).

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 Crosswood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Crosswood · Cill na Croise

Area

1,236,831 m² (123.68 ha, 305.63 acres)

Civil parish

St. Mary's, and its townlands

Barony

Brawny

Electoral division

Moydrum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moydrum electoral division: 3,155 people in 1,066 households; 78% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glen, Moydrum, Moydrum, Tully, Tullywood

Placenames

Crosswood 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.