# Cregaree, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Creig an Rí. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 869,748 m² (86.97 ha, 214.92 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,825 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/cong.md - Barony: Kilmaine - Electoral division: Cong, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34851 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 151209 - Centre: latitude 53.548602, longitude -9.297998 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregaree, from 12 m² to 288,265 m² (28.83 ha, 71.23 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 944401: 288,265 m² (28.83 ha, 71.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/944401.md - Parcel 885122: 101,240 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/885122.md - Parcel 909238: 100,507 m² (10.05 ha, 24.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909238.md - Parcel 955605: 62,814 m² (6.28 ha, 15.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/955605.md - Parcel 1533286: 59,787 m² (5.98 ha, 14.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1533286.md - Parcel 909038: 46,118 m² (4.61 ha, 11.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909038.md - Parcel 4785595: 33,211 m² (3.32 ha, 8.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785595.md - Parcel 1011594: 31,643 m² (3.16 ha, 7.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1011594.md - Parcel 5247535: 20,552 m² (2.06 ha, 5.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5247535.md - Parcel 970080: 20,169 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/970080.md - Parcel 909450: 19,507 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909450.md - Parcel 932401: 18,812 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/932401.md - Parcel 4785590: 12,201 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785590.md - Parcel 4721097: 9,754 m² (0.98 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4721097.md - Parcel 972089: 4,217 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/972089.md - Parcel 979927: 4,045 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/979927.md - Parcel 921100: 3,605 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921100.md - Parcel 967966: 3,435 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967966.md - Parcel 919545: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/919545.md - Parcel 921909: 3,313 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/921909.md - Parcel 4720962: 2,925 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720962.md - Parcel 879790: 2,589 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/879790.md - Parcel 975800: 2,415 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/975800.md - Parcel 4720992: 2,414 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4720992.md - Parcel 953060: 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/953060.md - Parcel 951192: 1,527 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951192.md - Parcel 950190: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/950190.md - Parcel 951193: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951193.md - Parcel 951194: 159 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/951194.md - Parcel 963766: 131 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/963766.md - Parcel 5449561: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449561.md - Parcel 5568564: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5568564.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Cregaree 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 23 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661254: N/a. Permission, 1 home. for the extension and renovation of the existing dwelling house, the upgrade of the existing septic tank system, and all associated site development works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661254/0 - 31 Jan 2025, Mayo County Council 2560055: Conditional. Permission. McGraths Limestone Works Ltd. intend to apply for permission for development at Cregaree, Cong, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the deepening of 19 ha. of the existing permitted quarry extraction area (Plan File Ref. No. 20/77: ABP-308748-20 & Plan File Ref. No. PL16.SU0132: QD16.QD0009) from 5 mOD to -12 mOD; Landscaping and restoration of the site; All associated ancillary facil-ities/works. The applicant is seeking a 25-year permission as part of the planning application. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560055/0 - 18 May 2024, Mayo County Council 2460304: Conditional. Permission. The development will consist of the refurbishment and modification of the existing derelict dwelling house, together with the construction of a new dormer rear extension, installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works and landscaping.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460304/0 - 10 Feb 2020, Mayo County Council 2077: Conditional. Permission. REMOVAL OF VEGETATION AND OVERBURDEN, EXTRACTION OF ROCK BY BLASTING AND ROCK BREAKING MEANS, LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF SITE, ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS (25 YEAR PERMISSION). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2077/0 - 24 Sept 2018, Mayo County Council 18724: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING WORKSHOP/GARAGE AND THE ERECTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES WITHIN THE EXISTING QUARRY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18724/0 - 20 Oct 2017, Galway County Council 171514: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a dwelling house and garage which will be connected to the existing public sewer. Gross floor space of proposed works 325sqm (House 285sqm and Garage 40sqm).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/171514/0 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 Cregaree. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA120-038: Leacht cuimhne, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-038----. The leacht cuimhne stands on top of an outcropping rock on the north side of the road. It consists of a squat masonry pillar with a pyramidal cap that is surmounted by a roughly-cut cross. A plaque set in its southern side bears a weathered inscription. Hayward (1954, 31) records that: ‘This monument commemorates one of those tragic incidents all too common in the darker history of the west, when, arising out of some feud, John Joyce was set on by his enemies and brutally beaten to death, the same fate overtaking his wife when she went to his rescue. All around this cenotaph you will see little piles of stones and rude stone and wooden crosses. These are known as Crusheens ‒ Croisíní - Little Crosses ‒ and they have been placed here in memory of the dead who passed this way to their last resting place.’ Further information is provided by Fahy (1978, 19‒20) who noted that ‘it commemorates Mary Joyce, a young woman who was killed in a family feud in 1712. The incident was a sensation at the time, three young men, brothers, being subsequently hanged at Ballinrobe Gaol for their part in the affair.’ (O'Dowd 1998, 204) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 November 2019 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) - Bridge, 1850–1855, Regional interest, registry number 31216001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31216001. Single-arch road bridge over canal, built 1852; complete 1854. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Canáil Chonga [Cong Canal] with overgrown embankments to canal. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Cregaree, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Cregaree. - 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/mayo/cregaree.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cregaree.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cregaree.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Cregaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghalahard: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghalahard.md - Breandrim (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/breandrim.md - Cloonnamarve (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonnamarve.md - Cregdotia (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/cregdotia.md - Creggaree (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/creggaree.md - Drumsheel Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumsheel-lower.md - Drumsheel Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/drumsheel-upper.md - Gortnaclassagh (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnaclassagh-62295.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/mayo/cregaree - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/cregaree