Cregduff
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Chreig Dhubh
- Area
- 100.5 ha
- 248 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 7,263 m² (0.73 ha, 1.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregduff, from 23 m² to 182,306 m² (18.23 ha, 45.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cregduff 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
5 Jun 2020N/a
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE, SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20354
15 May 2019Refused
CONSTRUCT A 24M HIGH MULTI USER LATTICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRUCTURE, CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES ENCLOSED WITHIN A 2.4M HIGH PALISADE FENCE COMPOUND, INCLUDING NEW ACCESS TRACK TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19354
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 Cregduff.
Recorded monuments
- MA121-032001 Castle - tower house
Description
Poorly preserved remains of rectangular tower (9.8m NE-SE; 11.1m NW-SE) on high ground, surrounded by rock outcrop built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. SW corner collapsed. Quoins have been removed. Rough undressed and roughly dressed stonework in rough coursing employed throughout. Contains qeutle base batter. Original entrance on SE now levelled, gave access to lobby, thence to main chamber to NW; small room and guard room to SW and lintelled doorway leading to spiral stairs in E corner. Main ground floor chamber is vaulted and contains fine quality wicker-work. Narrow window in splayed recess beside doorway lights entrance lobby outside. Other walls have deep embrasures with narrow windows. Spiral stairs lit by two narrow windows, lead to 1st-floor chamber. Smaller chambers may have existed overhead lobby. Grass-covered main first floor room contains windows in deep embrasures. Garderobe in NE wall. Low, grass-covered, stone walls run off E and W angles, may be remains of bawn wall (MA121-032003-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 714. Date of upload: 22 December 2014
- MA121-032002 Earthwork
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.
- MA121-032003 Bawn
Description
At a tower house (SL121-032001-). Low, grass-covered, stone walls, extending from the E and W angles of the tower house, may be the remains of a bawn wall (Lavelle 1994, 108, no. 714). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cregduff.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Cregduff.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cregduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cregduff · An Chreig Dhubh
- Area
- 1,005,032 m² (100.5 ha, 248.35 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmainemore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmaine
- Electoral division
- Kilmaine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmaine electoral division: 1,014 people in 375 households; 82% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrownturly, Frenchbrook South, Kilmainepark, Tawnagh, Turin
- Placenames
- Cregduff 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.