Creenasmear
Townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Críoch na Sméar
- Area
- 356.5 ha
- 881 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 33,462 m² (3.35 ha, 8.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creenasmear, from 86 m² to 1,467,950 m² (146.79 ha, 362.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Creenasmear 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
23 Jun 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661154
15 Apr 2026N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660646
3 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCHED ROOF EXTENSION WITH FLAT ROOF LINK TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE AND PROVISION FOR NEW ORIENTATED MAIN ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, (2) ASSOCIATED RENOVATIONS / ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING COTTAGE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660312
17 Sept 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561607
24 Apr 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460577
10 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350644
17 Aug 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL LANE AS ACCESS TO PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AS WELL AS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251389
11 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250622
1 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151065
30 Jan 2019Conditional
INSTALLATION OF AN AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO ACCESS LANDS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950115
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 Area of Conservation: Muckish Mountain SAC 001179
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain 001179
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creenasmear.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creenasmear.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Creenasmear.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Creenasmear with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Creenasmear · Críoch na Sméar
- Area
- 3,564,958 m² (356.5 ha, 880.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Creenasmear, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Creenasmear electoral division: 314 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownamaddy, Faymore, Gortnaleck, Kilmackilloo
- Placenames
- Creenasmear 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.