Cranareen
Cranareen is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltegan, barony of Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Crannairín.
- Area
- 73.7 ha
- 182 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 4,699 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cranareen, from 391 m² to 212,938 m² (21.29 ha, 52.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cranareen 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
18 Feb 2020Conditional
dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, well, entrance onto public road and associate works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20152
14 May 2019N/a
194 sqm two storey dwelling, domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, bored well, effluent treatment and disposal system to current EPA guidelines and all associated ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19524
30 Nov 2018Conditional
demolition of existing two storey dwelling and existing farm buildings, together with decommissioning of existing septic tank and replacement with a storey and a half dwelling, proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, a separate single storey structure to include boiler house, 4 no loose boxes, tack room and storage shed together with relocation of existing site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 181338
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 Cranareen.
Recorded monuments
- WI028-007 Enclosure
Description
Situated on level ground with gentle downhill slopes to W. Oval enclosure (dims. 27m N-S x 22m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.7-2m; H 1-1.4m) with near vertical drystone facing similar to the adjoining field walls, and an entrance (Wth 2m) at the SW. No indication of a fosse or internal features. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wicklow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 December 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cranareen.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cranareen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cranareen.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Cranareen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cranareen · Crannairín
- Area
- 736,566 m² (73.66 ha, 182.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltegan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Talbotstown Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballinguile, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 153 people lived in 51 households in the Ballinguile electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyknockan, Drim, Rathgorragh Lower, Slievereagh Lower, Toorboy
- Placenames
- Cranareen 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.