Cregmore

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregmore, from 143 m² to 211,982 m² (21.2 ha, 52.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Cregmore 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.

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  of an attic for use as habitable space, along with rear facing rooflights

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661041

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  to replace the existing thatch roof covering with a slate/tile roof covering to the existing cottage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660325

• 21 Oct 2025Conditional

  to demolish substandard extension to rear of the existing farmhouse and construct a new 2 storey extension to rear of existing farmhouse dwelling. Retention permission is also sought for existing domestic garage ancillary to dwelling as constructed and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2561546

• 3 Sept 2025Refused

  to replace the existing thatch roof covering with a slate/tile roof covering to the existing cottage

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561241

• 13 Aug 2025Refused

  for renovation and elevational changes to existing shed as constructed and all associated site works as constructed

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561107

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  to construct a 33-meter lattice mobile and broadband tower with headframe carrying telecommunications equipment together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound with access track

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23189

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  for an extension & modifications to existing dwellinghouse & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 147.40sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261231

• 1 Apr 2022Conditional

  to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 254 sqm + 59.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22443

• 17 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 314 sqm, Garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211709

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.3 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211678

• 24 Aug 2021Conditional

  to remove existing annex to rear of existing dwelling and to construct new 2 storey extension to rear of said dwelling, along with the demolition of existing outhouses and construction of new garage to include all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: ext. 93 sqm, garage 39 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: annex 25 sqm, shed 86 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211533

• 24 May 2019Conditional

  for an extension to the side of existing dwelling, roof and façade alterations to existing dwelling, new vehicular entrance, new septic tank with percolation treatment area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 134 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19796

• 11 Feb 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 213.31 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19176

• 11 Dec 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247.5 sqm (House - 207.5 sqm, Garage - 40 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181775

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 233.6sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171025

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA070-057 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle N-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (D 36m) defined by a drystone wall, best preserved from W through N to E. A field wall cuts the monument at W and E. Gaps at E and W appear modern. 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

• GA070-058 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In grassland. Well-preserved circular cashel (D 35m) defined by a drystone wall. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at E. An earthwork (GA070-059----) lies c. 40m to SE. 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

• GA070-059 Enclosure
  Description

  Some 40m SE of a ringfort (GA070-058----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA070-060 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  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.

• GA070-061 Well
  Description

  In grassland. Known locally as 'Toberglas', this natural well consists of an overgrown roughly oval depression (E-W 4m) which was dry at the time of visit. According to local information, it was delimited by a line of stones and fourteen stone steps lead down to the water level, these are no longer visible. 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 with attic, built c.1800, and having flat-roofed porch to front and single-storey late twentieth-century conservatory to rear. Pitched thatched roof with flush ridge, and rendered chimneystacks, and rendered copings to gables. Rendered and painted walls with rendered plinth, eaves course and plat bands to ends of front and rear elevations. Square headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and doors throughout and painted stone sills. Porch has rendered plinth, cantoned fluted pilasters to corners, stepped cornice, decorative heart motif to parapet, and windows to side walls. Set back from road behind recent rubble limestone boundary wall with piers and timber gates. Single-storey outbuildings to rear.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_673 (ZIP).

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 Cregmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cregmore · An Chreig Mhór

Area

1,517,151 m² (151.72 ha, 374.9 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Lisheenavalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Lisheenavalla electoral division: 1,085 people in 339 households; 90% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymoneen, Cahernashilleeny, Cregcarragh, Grange East

Placenames

Cregmore 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.