Cromoge
Townland in the civil parish of St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Chromóg
- Area
- 239.6 ha
- 592 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 7,261 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cromoge, from 14 m² to 291,330 m² (29.13 ha, 71.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Cromoge 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
10 Feb 2026Refused
Permission to construct a horse gallops with associated site works
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20260154
16 Oct 2025N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20251323
17 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for the following proposed works to existing protected structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241574
26 Nov 2024N/a
Permission for the following proposed works to existing Protected Structure
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20241465
10 Nov 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of 1) change of site boundaries
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231357
27 Feb 2023Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20230188
24 Jan 2023N/a
Permission for construction of a walled silage pit and effluent tank
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230061
3 Sept 2021Refused
Permission for construction of a walled silage pit and associated effluent tank
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20211411
2 Sept 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20211404
5 Feb 2021N/a
Retention Permission for (a) previously constructed Cattle Shed with Slatted
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20210156
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 Cromoge.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cromoge.
Architectural heritage
- Cromoge House, farm house, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, dated 1886, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Hipped slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining some cast-iron downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls. Segmental-headed central door opening with limestone flagged threshold, and concealed dressings framing replacement glazed aluminium double doors retaining 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 carved timber surrounds to door openings 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 in landscaped grounds with cut-granite monolithic piers to "cottage garden" supporting wrought iron-detailed flat iron "farm 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).
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, 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 Cromoge.
- 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 Cromoge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Cromoge · An Chromóg
- Area
- 2,396,483 m² (239.65 ha, 592.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Marys (Newtownbarry By), and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- St. Mary's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- St. Mary's electoral division: 787 people in 263 households; 86% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyphilip, Clonyburn, Gorteen, Kyle, Mullaunnasmear, Rossard
- Placenames
- Cromoge 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.