Craan Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnahue, barony of Gorey, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Corrán Íochtarach
- Area
- 130.9 ha
- 323 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 6,303 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craan Lower, from 60 m² to 315,312 m² (31.53 ha, 77.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 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 Lower 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
14 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission for the construction of a road underpass for agricultural purposes
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260029
8 Jan 2026Granted (conditional)
Permission to revise the location of permitted bored well on site previously
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260018
11 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221502
1 Nov 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all a
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20221452
20 Oct 2022N/a
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20221396
30 Sept 2022N/a
Permission to construct a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20221294
20 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling with ancillary outbuildings and services
Permission, 3 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211480
13 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to 1) erect an extension and carry out alterations to the existing dw
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211123
5 Jul 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a farmyard complex, including a steel framed building for th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211060
21 Jun 2021N/a
Permission to erect a dwelling with ancillary outbuildings and services
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20210966
31 May 2021N/a
Permission to erect a farmyard complex, including a steel framed building for th
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20210848
17 May 2021N/a
Permission to erect a dwelling with ancillary outbuildings and services
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210747
7 May 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210696
21 Dec 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR A CHANGE OF SITE BOUNDARIES TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM PE
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20171692
3 Oct 2016N/a
PERMISSION FOR RETENTION OF EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING SHED, HEN SHED, BLOCK WALL, A
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20161095
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 Lower.
Recorded monuments
- WX006-097 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. The cropmark of a rectangular enclosure (dims c. 45m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by rather indistinct fosses or moats and with a large entrance gap (Wth c. 15m) at E is visible only on Google Earth (14/07/2018). It was first reported by Simon Dowling. See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 28 February 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Craan Lower.
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 5 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 Lower.
- 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 Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Craan Lower · An Corrán Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,308,643 m² (130.86 ha, 323.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnahue, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gorey
- Electoral division
- Kilnahue, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilnahue electoral division: 488 people in 159 households; 91% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinacoola, Ballygullen, Clonamona Lower, Clonamona Upper, Craan Upper, Craanhill, Knockbrandon Upper
- Placenames
- Craan Lower 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.