# Creatland, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 596,880 m² (59.69 ha, 147.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,321 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16513 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50770 - Centre: latitude 54.899505, longitude -7.485636 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creatland, from 80 m² to 260,279 m² (26.03 ha, 64.32 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1321469: 260,279 m² (26.03 ha, 64.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321469.md - Parcel 1330407: 153,147 m² (15.31 ha, 37.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330407.md - Parcel 1318024: 54,873 m² (5.49 ha, 13.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318024.md - Parcel 1343758: 47,539 m² (4.75 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343758.md - Parcel 3659698: 43,115 m² (4.31 ha, 10.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659698.md - Parcel 1318023: 23,861 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318023.md - Parcel 1343736: 11,577 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343736.md - Parcel 3659699: 6,274 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659699.md - Parcel 1346879: 4,151 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346879.md - Parcel 3659702: 3,905 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659702.md - Parcel 1359747: 3,389 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359747.md - Parcel 1309448: 3,303 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309448.md - Parcel 4861547: 3,130 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4861547.md - Parcel 1302709: 3,063 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302709.md - Parcel 3659701: 2,494 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659701.md - Parcel 1303022: 2,465 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1303022.md - Parcel 3659700: 2,177 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659700.md - Parcel 1365955: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365955.md - Parcel 1305402: 1,755 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305402.md - Parcel 4675215: 1,751 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4675215.md - Parcel 1309895: 1,686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309895.md - Parcel 1304086: 1,661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304086.md - Parcel 1360938: 1,633 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360938.md - Parcel 4621806: 1,333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4621806.md - Parcel 4641853: 873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641853.md - Parcel 1360063: 869 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1360063.md - Parcel 1350650: 738 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350650.md - Parcel 5267284: 490 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5267284.md - Parcel 5267280: 351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5267280.md - Parcel 5267285: 268 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5267285.md - Parcel 4641852: 167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641852.md - Parcel 1359421: 80 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1359421.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Creatland in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 16 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150465: Conditional. Retention. EXISTING STORE FOR VEHICLE PARTS IN RELATION TO THE RETENTION PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM OIL DEPOT TO CAR BREAKING AND SALVAGE YARD INCLUDING ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150465/0 - 16 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2051947: N/a. Retention. CHANGE OF USE FROM OIL DEPOT TO CAR BREAKING AND SALVAGE YARD INCLUDING ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051947/0 - 7 Sept 2020, Donegal County Council 2051253: N/a. Retention. VEHICLE BREAKING AND SALVAGE YARD AND ALL ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051253/0 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 Creatland. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG063-010: Ringfort - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG063-010----. There is no sign of the single-ringed 'Fort' shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on good land with wide views over the Foyle Valley. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creatland. ## 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 Creatland, about 1 in 10 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creatland. - 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/donegal/creatland.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creatland.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creatland.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Creatland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Binnion: https://everytownland.com/donegal/binnion-50335.md - Cavanacaw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cavanacaw.md - Creaghadoos: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creaghadoos.md - Gillystown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gillystown.md - Ratteen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ratteen.md - Whitehill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/whitehill-52669.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/donegal/creatland - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/creatland