Castlecreevy

216 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecreevy, from 28 m² to 70,728 m² (7.07 ha, 17.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 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 Castlecreevy 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.

• 7 Feb 2025Conditional

  for dwelling house, garage/shed and private wastewater treatment system with all associated works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232.80 sqm(house), 48.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560126

• 17 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202 sqm(house) & 60.00 sqm(garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461739

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a garage/shed and pergola containing solar panels. Gross floor space of proposed works: Garage: 60 sqm, Pergola: 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211897

• 7 Jan 2021Conditional

  for an extention to an existing dwelling and permission is also sought to replace the existing fire-damaged roof with a new slate roof covering. The property is a protected structure, reference number 3729, on the list of protected structures. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 108.58 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 219

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  to change the house plans and garage plans that were granted under planning permissions reference numbers 12/1155 and 17/1424 and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208 sqm (House), 50 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201839

• 9 Oct 2020N/a

  to change the house plans and garage plans that were granted under planning permissions reference numbers 12/1155 and 17/1425 and all-ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 208 msq & 50 msq.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201474

• 21 Jan 2020Conditional

  for existing dwelling house as constructed and revised position of the existing dwelling within existing site boundaries including the location of septic tank and all associated services. (Previous planning ref. No. 40403). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 178 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2053

• 10 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage with a waste water treatment plant and polishing filter and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240sqm (House) and 45sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191572

• 15 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant percolation system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 288sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171638

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  of alterations to elevations of existing dwelling. Gross floor space of work to be retained 3.2sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171437

• 28 Sept 2017Unconditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works (gross floor space house 233sqm; garage 37sqm). Previous Planning Reference No. 12/1155.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 171424

• 11 Aug 2017N/a

  to construct a serviced dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant percolation system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 288sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171214

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 Castlecreevy.

Recorded monuments

• GA069-010 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On an outcrop of rock immediately W of a house cluster: the site overlooks a large tract of bogland to W. Named as 'Craobh Castle' by Wilde (1872, 31) who also records that it was owned by 'Croabh Ni Burca'. According to Nolan (1901a, 46), this may well be the 'Yowghvle' castle mentioned in the list of 1574, then in the possession of 'John Lynch fitz Wm' (ibid. 1901b, 118). What survives are the fragmentary and completely ivy-mantled ruins of a rectangular bawn (E-W c. 40m, N-S c. 32m). The S and W walls appear to be the best preserved (Wth 3m, H 4m), while part of E wall has been incorporated into a ball alley; little trace of N wall survives. It appears to have been defended by at last three circular turrets, one of which is situated on S wall (D 6m). However, the relationship between the other turrets, to NE and SE, and the surviving wall fragments is unclear, possibly suggesting a number of phases of building. The S tower is adjoined on N by a later rectangular structure (N-S 7.5m, E-W 6m). Traces of a possible rectangular building, its long axis running N-S, are also discernible in E sector of the interior adjacent to the disused ball alley. This may be the site of the 'square tower in tolerably good preservation', mentioned in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 271). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA069-012 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope. Poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (NE-SW 55m, NW-SE 40m) defined by a collapsed stony bank overgrown with hazel and briars. A gap at SW appears to be modern. The interior is uneven and is lower than the exterior. There is a large depression in NE quadrant which extends out beyond the enclosing bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with dormer attic, and having flat-roof twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative scolloping to ridge, wire mesh to eaves, and with low rendered chimneystack. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth to front and rendered quoins and eaves. Lime rendered to rear. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and decorative render surrounds. Square-headed glazed timber entrance door. Set back from road with yard and single-storey outbuildings to rear, with random rubble boundary wall. Decorative cement balustrade and garden to front, having rendered piers with metal gates.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having flat-roofed twentieth-century porch to front, and flat-roofed addition to rear. Pitched reed-thatched roof with scolloped blocked ridge and rendered chimneystack and rendered copings. Whitewashed rendered walls with slight batter. Square-headed replacement timber windows with decorative render surrounds. Garden to front vounded by low rendered walls and yard to rear with concrete surface.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, with attic, and having two-storey late twentieth-century extension to rear at right angles with ridge same height as that of earlier block. Pitched thatched roof with scolloped ridge, and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with pronounced batter, and having high skirting to front, and strips at either end to imitate channelled raised quoins, also used under eaves line. Square-headed window openings with replacement glazing, and painted decoration. Square-headed doorway with similar painted decoration and replacement glazed door. Lawns to east, yard to rear, and garden to front with low rendered boundary wall with metal pedestrian gate.

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 Castlecreevy.

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.

• Castlecreevy, Corrandulla7 sales

Name

Castlecreevy · Caisleán na Craobhaí

Area

1,763,338 m² (176.33 ha, 435.73 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Liscananaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Liscananaun electoral division: 1,601 people in 521 households; 83% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowbeg North, Carrowbeg South, Castlequarter, Cloonboo, Corrandulla, Mace, Tonagarraun

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Castlecreevy 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.