# Cronroe, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow; in Irish An Corrán Rua. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,299,246 m² (229.92 ha, 568.16 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,980 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathnew, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/rathnew.md - Barony: Newcastle - Electoral division: Glenealy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,861 people lived in 1,004 households in the Glenealy electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55480 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250600 - Centre: latitude 52.997972, longitude -6.121378 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronroe, from 31 m² to 160,018 m² (16 ha, 39.54 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1263623: 160,018 m² (16 ha, 39.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1263623.md - Parcel 1268638: 116,196 m² (11.62 ha, 28.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1268638.md - Parcel 1289595: 87,284 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289595.md - Parcel 5363964: 77,014 m² (7.7 ha, 19.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5363964.md - Parcel 1261027: 49,017 m² (4.9 ha, 12.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1261027.md - Parcel 1260238: 42,958 m² (4.3 ha, 10.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260238.md - Parcel 5363963: 37,430 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5363963.md - Parcel 1265510: 34,638 m² (3.46 ha, 8.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1265510.md - Parcel 1260087: 26,123 m² (2.61 ha, 6.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260087.md - Parcel 1262213: 13,513 m² (1.35 ha, 3.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1262213.md - Parcel 5542701: 11,509 m² (1.15 ha, 2.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5542701.md - Parcel 1260226: 10,458 m² (1.05 ha, 2.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1260226.md - Parcel 5728783: 7,129 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5728783.md - Parcel 1277360: 5,067 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1277360.md - Parcel 6217616: 4,032 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6217616.md - Parcel 1283024: 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283024.md - Parcel 1271293: 2,617 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1271293.md - Parcel 5083980: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5083980.md - Parcel 1274037: 1,975 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1274037.md - Parcel 1286093: 1,807 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1286093.md - Parcel 5671958: 1,504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5671958.md - Parcel 1284479: 1,268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1284479.md - Parcel 1272860: 1,126 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1272860.md - Parcel 1283353: 859 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1283353.md - Parcel 1289377: 696 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1289377.md - Parcel 4882952: 608 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882952.md - Parcel 3705021: 597 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705021.md - Parcel 4948572: 448 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4948572.md - Parcel 1270034: 231 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270034.md - Parcel 1269396: 223 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1269396.md - Parcel 1287493: 214 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1287493.md - Parcel 1270276: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1270276.md - Parcel 4909023: 90 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909023.md - Parcel 4882951: 65 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4882951.md - Parcel 4909028: 48 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4909028.md - Parcel 1288411: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1288411.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) - R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow; 10 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/20f5smOQ1U-B5QVUfmTyGw/Link/Level%205%20Ashford%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf - G4 Active Open Space (Active open space): Ashford Town Plan, Wicklow; 0 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.wicklow.ie/Portals/0/adam/Documents/20f5smOQ1U-B5QVUfmTyGw/Link/Level%205%20Ashford%20Town%20Plan%202022%20-%202028.pdf ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 27 May 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660470: Conditional. Permission. construction of a new detached dormer dwelling including new vehicular and pedestrian entrance onto Grangelea and connections to existing services, together with all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660470/0 - 20 May 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660438: N/a. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new detached dormer dwelling with connections to existing services and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660438/0 - 11 Mar 2026, Wicklow County Council 2660179: Refused. Permission. construction of a new, detached, single-storey dwelling house, and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660179/0 - 27 Jul 2020, Wicklow County Council 20727: Refused. Permission, 1 home. restoration and refurbishment of existing farm outbuilding and change of use to a two bedroom holiday home. The proposed works include: 6) Revision to elevations and internal layout, 7) Ground floor extension of front porch and rear extension of utility and stairs lobby 8) New roof and first floor extension of bedrooms and ensuite 9) Connection to existing public sewage via a holding tank and pump 10) All associated site ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20727/0 - 6 Jul 2020, Wicklow County Council 20635: N/a. Permission, 1 home. conversion of existing farm building to a two storey two-bedroom mews. Connection to existing tank. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/20635/0 - 12 Nov 2019, Wicklow County Council 191224: Refused. Permission, 1 home. restoration and refurbishment of existing derelict outbuilding and its conversion to residential use. The proposed works include the construction of a two storey extension to rear, new roof and first floor extensions, new front porch, alterations to elevations, connection to existing septic tank and all associated site ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191224/0 - 22 Oct 2019, Wicklow County Council 191145: N/a. Permission, 1 home. conversion of existing farm building to a two storey two bedroom mews, connection to existing tank. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/191145/0 - 22 Oct 2018, Wicklow County Council 181168: Refused. Permission. change of use of 28 no. two storey holiday dwellinghouses previously granted permission under planning reference numbers 94/440 and 98/8860 to private family homes. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/181168/0 - 25 May 2017, Wicklow County Council 17601: Conditional. Permission. solar farm within a site area of approximately 27 hectares consisting of solar photovoltaic panels covering an area up to 182,120 sqm on ground mounted steel frames, 1 no on site substation, 6 no inverter / transformer stations, underground cables and ducts, boundary security fence, new internal tracks, CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. The permission is sought for a period of 10 years. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17601/0 - 15 May 2017, Wicklow County Council 17540: N/a. Permission. solar fam within a site area of approximately 27 hectares consisting of solar photovoltaic panels covering an area of up to 182,120 sqm on ground mounted steel frames, 1 no on site substation, 6 no inverter / transformer stations, underground cables and ducts, boundary security fence, new internal tracks, CCTV cameras and all associated site services and works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17540/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cronroe. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cronroe. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Bel-Air Hotel, country house, 1885–1895, Regional interest, registry number 16402517, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16402517. Detached seven-bay part two part three-storey country house, built 1890. It was built on the site of an earlier house. The house is finished in render. To the south side there is a canted two-storey bay while to the north side is a recessed two-storey section. The timber panelled double front door has a plain fanlight and is set within a segmental-arched opening which is flanked by three-quarter pilasters with floral caps. Above the door there is a small gabled third floor section with a bracketed wrought-iron railing; this is flanked with paired columns with floral caps; it has an overhanging bracketed eaves with decorative bargeboards. Window openings have segmental-arched heads and one over one timber sash frames. The mainly hipped roof is finished with natural slate and cast-iron rainwater goods. To the north side is a small range of outbuildings some of which appear to be pigsties and which may belong to the earlier house. Internally the original dog leg staircase, with decorative balusters and timber columns supporting the landing, has been retained. The country house is set on a rise within a well wooded demesne. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cronroe, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3372, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_3372.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cronroe.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cronroe.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cronroe.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cronroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinalea: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinalea.md - Ballyknockan Beg: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballyknockan-beg.md - Ballylusk: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballylusk-250250.md - Ballymacahara: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymacahara.md - Ballymerrigan: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballymerrigan.md - Milltown North: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/milltown-north.md - Monduff: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/monduff.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/cronroe - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/cronroe