Cronykeery
Cronykeery is a townland in the civil parish of Rathnew, barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow.
- Area
- 93.6 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 2,552 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cronykeery, from 217 m² to 572,533 m² (57.25 ha, 141.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Cronykeery 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
12 Sept 2022Refused
part demolition of existing dwelling and construction of a new, single storey extension to the existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22989
10 Mar 2022Conditional
new, single storey extension to existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22225
16 Feb 2022N/a
new, single storey extension to existing dwelling together with all necessary ancillary site works to facilitate this development
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22156
7 Jul 2021Conditional
1: Retention for an existing sun room circa 11.5 sq.m. located to the side of the existing dwelling. 2: Full Planning Permission for the conversion of an existing sewing room previously granted under planning permission ref no 6189/90 to a bedroom to make the dwelling a 3 bedroom unit. 3. Full Planning Permission for the removal of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of a new waste water treatment system and soil polishing filter system to current EPA guidelines and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 21806
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 Cronykeery.
Recorded monuments
- WI025-046 Fulacht fia
Description
Slight traces of the presence of a fulacht fiadh were revealed in the southern part of the townland of Cronykeery, Co. Wicklow, in May 2001, during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook- Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Small spreads of heat-shattered stone and charcoal were observed in low-lying ground some 3m north of an unnamed stream. Hand-cleaning found several small, thin spreads of charcoal and heat-shattered stones. Two small pits were also identified which were filled with heat-shattered stone and charcoal. These pits measured on average 0.5m by 0.5m with a depth of 0.17-0.2m, and were generally too small to have functioned as troughs. It was concluded that the material identified was perhaps peripheral to a larger fulacht fiadh outside the way-leave of the gas pipeline (Bennett 2003, 417). Date of upload: 23 October 2012
- WI025-047 Fulacht fia
Description
A small fulacht fia was archaeologically excavated (Licence No. 01E0404). The site was detected during the monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Hollybrook-Wicklow Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Prior to excavation the site, as revealed by topsoil-stripping, consisted of a spread of burnt material which was visible against the light brown natural boulder clays. A small area was opened for excavation by hand and measured approximately 6.6m north-south by 4-5m. This corresponded with the eastern area of the pipeline driving track. The western area of the pipeline corridor had been badly disturbed by the insertion of land drains in comparatively recent times. Excavation revealed that the archaeological features survived as cut features (a ditch, two pits and stake-holes). Elements of open stratigraphy which had not been removed by land reclamation or ploughing also remained. The features detected nestled in a shallow depression in which the burnt mound had fulfilled a levelling function. The earliest feature detected during the excavation was a portion of a curvilinear ditch in the northern part of the area examined. The cut for this comprised a U-shaped, flat-bottomed ditch with sloping sides, which had been excavated into natural subsoil. A curving length of approximately 3m of the ditch was revealed, running north-south for 2m before turning abruptly to the south-west for a distance of 1m. The cut measured 1.1m wide at the north, narrowing to 0.58m at the south-west, and was 0.52-0.49m deep. The sole fill of the ditch consisted of a moderately compact, water-retentive, light grey silty clay with yellowish-brown flecking. This contained occasional inclusions of small stones and decayed timber fragments. Analysis of the timber fragments has found traces of ash, hazel, alder and elm. The full extent of the ditch was not revealed. It extended to the north-west of the pipeline corridor into an area that had been badly damaged by the insertion of field drains. A large trough or pit was detected in the north-eastern corner of the area examined. This was a substantial oval cut into natural stratigraphy, measuring 1.5m north-south by 1.36m with a depth of 0.8m. It had a U-shaped profile with a concave base and sloping sides. The fill consisted of a waterlogged, loosely compacted, grey silty clay with frequent inclusions of burnt, heat-shattered stone. A second pit, possibly a very shallow trough, was excavated some 2.5m to the south-west. This additional pit was a small cut into natural boulder clay. In the area between the two pits a setting of stones was revealed. It consisted of two clusters of medium-sized stones which were sealed by burnt mound material. The northern cluster of stones formed a C-shaped setting open to the east, partly enclosing an area measuring 0.4m north-south by 0.5m. The southern setting of three stones, to the north of the smaller pit, partly enclosed an area measuring 0.4m east-west by 0.25m. The northern cluster, in particular, was at the time of excavation considered likely to be a hearth, but no ash or other indications of soil oxidation from heat were observed. The burnt mound material was the initial indication of the presence of archaeological material at the Cronykeery II site. It consisted of an extensive layer of moderately compact black, fire-cracked stone and clay measuring approximately 6m north-south by 4.3m with a depth of 0.2-0.4m at the time of excavation. A line of stake-holes was detected to the south and south-east of the burnt mound material. This formed a curving arc running east-west from the south-western limit of excavation before turning to run south-west/north-east. In total some twelve stake-holes were traced for a length of 4.5m. These were shallow, narrow impressions left by the tips of posts which may have formed a windbreak or post-and-wattle fence. The results of radiocarbon dating analysis are awaited (Bennett 2003, 417-18). Date of upload: 23 October 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cronykeery.
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 Cronykeery, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3387 (ZIP).
- 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 Cronykeery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Cronykeery
- Area
- 936,351 m² (93.64 ha, 231.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathnew, and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinapark, Clonmannan, Coolawinnia, Inchanappa North, Killoughter
- Placenames
- Cronykeery 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.