Creeve

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeve, from 51 m² to 302,973 m² (30.3 ha, 74.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Creeve 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.

• 1 May 2025Conditional

  proposed construction of a single storey extension to the rear of an existing storey and a half type dwelling house, construction of detached garage, proposed replacement of an existing septic tank system with an onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2560076

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of an extension to existing bungalow type dwelling house together with the proposed upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system in accordance with EPA code of practice 2021 to service the existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460328

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of an extension to existing bungalow type dwelling house together with the proposed upgrade of existing wastewater treatment system in accordance with EPA code of practice 2021 to service the existing dwelling house and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460207

• 14 Aug 2024Conditional

  the proposed construction of a single storey type dwelling house, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite treatment system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460172

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrickglass Demesne 001822

Recorded monuments

• LF014-011 Moated site
  Description

  On wet, low-lying ground. A subrectangular area (48.3m NNE-SSW; 32.7m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.2m; H 0.1-0.35m) with a wide, deep, intervening fosse (Wth 4.1m; D 1.45m) and a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth 3.5m; H 0.7m). There is much disturbance by quarrying, particularly at ESE and SSW. The original entrance is not recognisable. Dense overgrowth rendered inspection difficult. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 May 2012

Architectural heritage

• Creeve Lodge, house, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1770 having slightly projecting single-bay breakfront to the centre of the main elevation (southeast) and two-bay two-storey return to rear (northwest). Recent extension to return. Possibly formerly in use as a mill manager’s house (c. 1838; Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch map). Pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and raised cut stone verges to gable ends (northeast and southwest). Cut stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over rendered plinth course, and painted rendered finish to central breakfront. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one timber sliding sash windows, rendered reveals and painted limestone sills. Central round-headed door opening with carved rusticated limestone block-and-start surround with architrave, replacement glazed timber panel door and with plain overlight. Set back from road in extensive grounds to the northeast of Longford Town. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to rear (northwest) having pitched corrugated-metal roof with rendered chimneystack and rubble stone masonry walls, partially rendered to the southeast end. Square-headed window and door openings with timber battened doors and remains of timber windows. Segmental-headed carriage arch to centre of the main elevation (northeast) having roughly dressed voussoirs. Main entrance gates to the west having ashlar limestone gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron gate, stile to north wall.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway, c. 1900, comprising a pair of tooled limestone gate posts and a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Rubble stone boundary walls to either side (east and west). Located in the rural countryside to the east of Longford Town.

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 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 Creeve.

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 Creeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Creeve · An Chraobh

Area

1,294,798 m² (129.48 ha, 319.95 acres)

Civil parish

Killoe, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Corboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corboy electoral division: 420 people in 151 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygarve, Carrickglass Demesne, Killyfad, Lissavaddy, Toorfin

Placenames

Creeve 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.