Creighmore
Creighmore is a townland in the civil parish of Clonpriest, barony of Imokilly, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Chríoch Mhór.
- Area
- 112.5 ha
- 278 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 7,914 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creighmore, from 63 m² to 182,575 m² (18.26 ha, 45.12 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 Creighmore 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
20 Feb 2025Conditional permission
Permission to retain as constructed two storey residential dwelling, septic tank and site services along with planning permission to construct a new laundry room extension to existing residential dwelling and a new percolation area to existing septic tank along with all associated site works and services
Permission for retention · Cork County Council, 25/4254
19 Oct 2021Conditional
Retention is sought to retain porch to front of existing dwelling as constructed, extension to rear of existing dwelling as constructed and retain all associated site works.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/6838
23 Apr 2021Conditional
To construct a cattle shed with slatted tank, calf house, silage slab and ancillary works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 21/5075
28 Aug 2018Conditional
Construct single storey extension to side and rear of existing dwellinghouse, including alteration to existing dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/6267
19 Nov 2008Conditional
Extension to dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9763
6 Dec 2005Conditional
Extension to dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8996
20 Sept 2005Incompleted application
Extension
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/6834
1 Oct 2004Conditional
Bungalow and garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/7408
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
- Special Protection Area: Ballymacoda Bay SPA 004023
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creighmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creighmore.
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 Creighmore, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creighmore.
- 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 Creighmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Creighmore · An Chríoch Mhór
- Area
- 1,125,327 m² (112.53 ha, 278.07 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonpriest, and its townlands
- Barony
- Imokilly
- Electoral division
- Clonpriest, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,234 people lived in 402 households in the Clonpriest electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymadog, Clonpriest West, Gortaroo, Inchiquin, Shanakill
- Placenames
- Creighmore 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.