Craanhill

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Craanhill, from 1,040 m² to 383,930 m² (38.39 ha, 94.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Craanhill 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.

• 2 Jun 2026Refused

  Permission to erect a single-storey dwelling with domestic garage, connection to

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20260710

• 18 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20240693

• 10 Jun 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect an extension to the side of dwelling and all associated site

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240649

• 6 Dec 2023N/a

  Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20231463

• 22 Nov 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to erect a two-storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and

  Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211812

• 14 Jun 2021N/a

  Permission to erect a two storey dwelling with services, domestic garage and anc

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210929

• 7 May 2021Granted (conditional)

  Permission to construct a dwelling house with services, domestic garage and all

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210696

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 Craanhill.

Recorded monuments

• WX006-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) on the 1839 OS 6-inch map, and situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of Craan Hill. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (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: 1 March, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile farmhouse, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Sold, 1997. Renovated, 1999, producing present composition. Replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Replacement rendered battered walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite monolithic surround centred on keystone framing replacement glazed timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling, staircase on a dog leg plan with turned timber balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in turned timber newel, and timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in landscaped grounds with looped wrought iron railings to "cottage garden" centred on looped wrought iron gate.

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 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 Craanhill.

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 Craanhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Craanhill · Cnoc an Chorráin

Area

1,299,804 m² (129.98 ha, 321.19 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

Craan Lower, Craan Upper, Knockbrandon Upper, Lyrane, Millquarter, Monaseed Demesne, Slievebaun

Placenames

Craanhill 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.