Castlecreagh

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Castlecreagh, from 63 m² to 296,126 m² (29.61 ha, 73.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Castlecreagh 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.

• 14 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, new entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21828

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  the construction of a dwellinghouse and associated site works including roadside entrance and wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18196

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 Castlecreagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI049-081 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 145m E of townland boundary with Snugborough and 50m S of Glenefy House, an enclosure (LI049-080----) lies 230m to the W. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 45m NW-SE; 52m NE-SW) defined by a scarp from SE-S-W-N-NE. Monument visible as a raised oval shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 October 2021

• LI049-083 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 198) recorded the following details about Castle Creagh (an Chaisleáin Chria / castle of clay); '1540 Caislean criaidh in Duntriliag (Burke Rental). 1655 Castle creh, J. Cantwell, sold to Hugh Massy (B.D., p. 89). 1667 Confirmed to latter, then to W. Barraby, then the next year to J. Cantwell. It was afterwards a residence of the Bennetts, and had fallen into ruin by 1827 (FitzGerald, i., p. 385)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 September 2021

Architectural heritage

• Glenefy, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1800, having shallow breakfront to front (east) elevation, bows to north and south and two-bay single-story over basement extension to north-west elevation. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls having cut limestone plinth course and tooled cut sandstone walls to basement south elevation. Slate hangings to rear (west) elevation. Square-headed openings to first floor with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and tooled limestone sills. Square-headed openings to centre-bay, first floor having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having four-over-nine pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to basement with limestone block-and-start surrounds, four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows and cast-iron sill guards. Round-headed opening to rear elevation having replacement timber casement window and limestone sill. Render surround to entrance comprising cornice and fluted pilasters flanking round-headed opening with spoked fanlight over timber panelled double-leaf doors. Flanking square-headed openings having four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking fluted pilasters. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Wrought-iron pedestrian entrance leading to basement courtyard to north-west, having carved sandstone head to west. Multiple-bay two-storey L-plan range of outbuildings to north-west, having pitched slate roofs and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughly dressed sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with sandstone sills and cut voussoirs, some with fixed windows, casement windows and timber fittings. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors and cut sandstone voussoirs. Camber-headed carriage arch with cut sandstone voussoirs.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Castlecreagh.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Castlecreagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Castlecreagh · An Caisleán Cria

Area

1,019,984 m² (102 ha, 252.04 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Galbally, the unit of the census

Census 2022

588 people lived in 223 households in the Galbally electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Deerpark, Galbally, Kilgreana, Killinane, Lissard, Snugborough

Placenames

Castlecreagh 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.