# Creelagh, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Rathdowney, barony of Clandonagh, Co. Laois; in Irish Croithleach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 437,282 m² (43.73 ha, 108.05 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 17,137 m² (1.71 ha, 4.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Rathdowney, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/rathdowney.md - Barony: Clandonagh - Electoral division: Rathdowney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Rathdowney electoral division: 1,317 people in 524 households; 64% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28092 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100454 - Centre: latitude 52.839169, longitude -7.588073 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creelagh, from 51 m² to 179,633 m² (17.96 ha, 44.39 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 243541: 179,633 m² (17.96 ha, 44.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/243541.md - Parcel 254126: 82,490 m² (8.25 ha, 20.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254126.md - Parcel 226542: 57,049 m² (5.7 ha, 14.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/226542.md - Parcel 235491: 41,441 m² (4.14 ha, 10.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/235491.md - Parcel 254664: 28,401 m² (2.84 ha, 7.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/254664.md - Parcel 5504366: 24,561 m² (2.46 ha, 6.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5504366.md - Parcel 261459: 9,714 m² (0.97 ha, 2.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261459.md - Parcel 2457132: 8,927 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2457132.md - Parcel 261497: 4,237 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/261497.md - Parcel 4950491: 970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950491.md - Parcel 264847: 64 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/264847.md - Parcel 242146: 51 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/242146.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Creelagh 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 May 2019, Laois County Council 18674: Conditional. Permission. construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18674/0 - 30 Oct 2018, Laois County Council 18660: N/a. Permission. construct and complete, for a period of 5 years, a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 67.6 hectares, to include two single storey, 38KV electrical substation buildings & associated infrastructure within a compound, inverter station modules, spare parts container, solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, internal access tracks, security fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, drainage, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works including vehicular access works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/18660/0 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 Creelagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA034-006: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA034-006----. Cropmark of subcircular enclosures visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 38-9). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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 Creelagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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_1884, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1884.zip (ZIP). - 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/laois/creelagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/creelagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/creelagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Creelagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballybuggy: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballybuggy.md - Ballyedmond: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballyedmond.md - Glasha: https://everytownland.com/laois/glasha.md - Kilcoran: https://everytownland.com/laois/kilcoran.md - Levally: https://everytownland.com/laois/levally.md - Rathdowney: https://everytownland.com/laois/rathdowney.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/laois/creelagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/creelagh