Cross

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 1,337 m² to 772,236 m² (77.22 ha, 190.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Cross 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.

• 8 Aug 2024Conditional

  a dwellinghouse with services, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24336

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 Cross.

Recorded monuments

• WI038-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low hillock in undulating terrain. Circular area (diam. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.8m). The site is encompassed by the public road at the NE and by farm access roads E-SW-NW. At the SW there is an external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 1m); this may have been a continuous feature now cut through by the adjacent roads. The entrance (Wth 2m) is at the N, and there is a modern gap (Wth 4m) at the NW. No indication of 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 Cross.

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Cross.

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 Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

1,320,482 m² (132.05 ha, 326.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Shillelagh Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor South

Electoral division

Tinahely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tinahely electoral division: 1,634 people in 613 households; 73% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamanoge, Bridgeland, Raheenteige, Redbog (Co. Carlow), Whiterock

Placenames

Cross 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.