Creaghanboy
Creaghanboy is a townland in the civil parish of Manulla, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Críochán Buí.
- Area
- 65 ha
- 161 acres
- Land parcels
- 46
- registered freehold, median 12,202 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creaghanboy, from 296 m² to 108,719 m² (10.87 ha, 26.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Creaghanboy 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jan 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2519
18 Dec 2020Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION, REFERENCE NO. P20282. THE ALTERATIONS PROVIDE FOR A CHANGE IN THE DESIGN OF THE EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED FULL PLANNING AND PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT TO CONSTRUCT A PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE ON THE SITE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 201005
27 Apr 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED AND TO CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALL A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM ALONG WIH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20282
3 May 2019Refused
Demolish existing shed and construct extensions and alterations to a private dwelling house and install a proprietary effluent treatment unit and percolation area to replace the existing septic tank system along with all associated services.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19323
9 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1873
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Creaghanboy.
Recorded monuments
- MA079-082001 Church
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.
- MA079-082002 Children's burial ground
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creaghanboy.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Creaghanboy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creaghanboy.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Creaghanboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Creaghanboy · An Críochán Buí
- Area
- 649,569 m² (64.96 ha, 160.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Manulla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Manulla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 991 people lived in 349 households in the Manulla electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Derreen, Drumnaslooeen, Knockmore Eighter, Knockmore Oughter, Lisnolan, Manulla, Rinnahulty
- Placenames
- Creaghanboy 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.