Craan
Townland in the civil parish of Kilpipe, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Corrán
- Area
- 112.3 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,535 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craan, from 13 m² to 485,620 m² (48.56 ha, 120 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
No zone of a development plan covers Craan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Sept 2025Granted (conditional)
(1) Permission for retention of alterations to the dwelling and (2) permission
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20251088
11 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with services and domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221501
21 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission for a dwelling house with attached familt flat and domestic garage wi
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211172
12 Jul 2021N/a
Permission for a dwelling house with attached family flat and domestic garage wi
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211104
30 Jun 2021N/a
Permission for a dwelling house with attached family flat and domestic garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20211030
9 Nov 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a split-level two storey dwelling with services
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201308
9 Oct 2020Refused
Permission for a Dwelling house with attached Family Flat and detached domestic
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20201166
2 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a new split level dwelling, domestic garage,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200249
14 Nov 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SPLIT LEVEL DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191520
29 Oct 2019Refused
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FAMILY FLAT AND DETACHED DOMESTIC
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191453
21 Oct 2019N/a
PERMISSION FOR A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED FAMILY FLAT AND DETACHED DOMESTIC
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20191428
5 Sept 2019Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO ERECT A DWELLING WITH SERVICES AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIA
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191240
23 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A SPLIT LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20170343
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 Craan.
Recorded monuments
- WX001-001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circuclar embanked enclosure on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map on the border with Co. Wicklow, and situated in the valley of a NE-SW stream. Circular overgrown area (diam. 20m) defined by earthen bank (Wth 2-4m; H 1.5-2m) with internal stone cladding. It is in centre of stream with a leat (now dry) breaching breaching the bank at NE, following the inner edge of bank at N and W and exiting at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996) compiled by Michael Moore. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 18 October 2011
- WX001-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. An arc (C 16m) survives at W as a scarp (max. H 1.4m) in a field of reclaimed pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' compiled by Michael Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 21 October 2011
- WX001-007 Standing stone
Description
Located on a gentle W-facing slope at the base of a steeper W-facing slope of Carrig hill. Oriented NW-SE with rectangular cross-section and a pointed profile (dims. 0.95m x 0.7m; H 1.4m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996) compiled by Michael Moore. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Craan.
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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Craan.
- 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 Craan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Craan · An Corrán
- Area
- 1,122,637 m² (112.26 ha, 277.41 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilpipe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Wingfield, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Wingfield electoral division: 1,045 people in 328 households; 91% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyday, Ballythomas, Carrig, Curraghlawn (Co. Wicklow), Toberpatrick (Co. Wicklow)
- Placenames
- Craan 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.