Creeveoughter

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeveoughter, from 505 m² to 141,786 m² (14.18 ha, 35.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 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 Creeveoughter 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Creeveoughter in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Creeveoughter.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-007 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This tomb is on a S-facing hillslope in arable land 1.6km W of Lough Swilly and commands an extensive view eastward across the lough. Knockalla Mountain, just over 2km away, limits the outlook to the N and W. The monument is greatly ruined. Three orthostats, the long axis of each aligned ENE-WSW, are in situ. The northernmost of these is 0.7m NW of, and the southernmost one 0.4m SW of, the third one, which lies between and slightly in front of the others. Another stone leans southward against the western end of this and may also be in situ. Two large displaced slabs lie at the southern end of the structure, and there is a stone, 0.7m in maximum dimension, beside the northern orthostat. The stones stand in a low, grass-grown, stony mound, not more than 0.5m high, measuring 7m NW-SE by 5.2m NE-SW. The site has been used as a dump for field stones. The set stone at the N end of the monument is 0.8m high. The orthostat set slightly in front of the other two is 0.35m high. The slab leaning against the W end of this is 2.25m long and 0.4m thick and, if upright, would stand 0.6m high. The orthostat at the S, partly concealed by a displaced slab leaning on its western end, is 0.45m high. The displaced slab measures 1.6m by 1.4m and is 0.2m thick. The second displaced slab here adjoins the last at the SE and measures 2.1m by 1.9m by 0.25m thick. The scant remains may represent two sides of a chamber or gallery with an outer-wall stone to one side (Ó Nualláin 1983a). However, in its present condition the monument must remain unclassified. According to the OS Memoirs (1834), the monument was then 'in ruins' and in the process of being broken up to provide material for road-building. OS Memoirs, Killygarvan parish (1834), 21; Kinahan 1889, 279; Borlase 1897, 231, Kilmacrenan no. 8; Somerville 1909, 201-2 (incorrectly stated to be in Inniskil townland); Killanin and Duignan 1962, 408; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 412; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 41, no. 101; SMR 1987, 28:7; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 28:7. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

• DG028-010 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG028-010001 Hut site
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG028-010002 Structure
  Description

  A series of features spread over a boggy S-facing hillslope. The most northerly (1 on location plan) consists of a hut-like feature 5m E-W × 4m N-S. It is defined by an earthen bank except for a 4m wide gap to the S. Three stones set on edge define this side. On the N of the site is an extensive low spread of grass and turf-covered stones. This extends to the W to join the N end of a stone field wall which runs to the SW. 3m E of the 'hut' are three closely set lines of small stones running roughly NW-SE over a distance of 7m. There is an indication of a possible fourth line on the E. The S end is limited by recent ploughing and land reclamation. The stones do not exceed .4m in height. A number of flints including several worked pieces were picked up to the S of these stone lines and 'hut'. About 60m SE of these (3 on location plan) a small, circular, stone-outlined, hut-like feature was located but has since been removed. A few flint flakes were also found here. About 150m SW of (1) above, is an oval setting of low stones (2 on location plan). This measures 9.5m N-S × 8m E-W. The perimeter stones measure c. 0.4m in height with those in the interior c. 0.2m high. The stones in the interior seem, for the most part, to be arranged in a series of paired parallel lines. The sites are located on boggy land currently being reclaimed. This, together with the finding of flint pieces would seem to suggest a Neolithic or Bronze Age date for the sites. A bronze spearhead was found just across the road c. 1952 (NMI). Swan (1955, 49) referred to 'a double row of small slabs suggestive of a gallery grave' in Creeve, i.e. Creeveoughter, townland. This is not a gallery grave but a series of closely spaced lines of stones, part of a prehistoric complex (Lacy 1983). The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creeveoughter.

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 10 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 Creeveoughter.

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 Creeveoughter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Creeveoughter

Area

3,417,770 m² (341.78 ha, 844.55 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Knockalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Knockalla electoral division: 286 people in 112 households; 84% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 25% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anny Far and Near, Carrowreagh, Drumhallagh Upper, Elly, Gortcally, Inniskil, Meentaghconlan, Meentaghmore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Creeveoughter 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.