Creggaunnahorna
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmeena, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Creagán na hEorna
- Area
- 36.7 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,328 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- P1
- Agriculture
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggaunnahorna, from 63 m² to 102,671 m² (10.27 ha, 25.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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
- P1Agriculture
Westport Local Area Plan, Mayo · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 Mar 2026Conditional
construction of a 4 bay cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank together with cattle crush, dry storage area and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2661
11 Dec 2025Conditional
retain existing dwelling house and garage along with all necessary site works and ancillaries
Retention · Mayo County Council, 25499
21 Jul 2025Conditional
Reinstatement of ground works for proposed agricultural access, provide access via existing private access road, permission to construct a private dwelling house with an effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560491
10 Mar 2025N/a
Retention of existing agricultural access onto the L-5844 together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560135
3 Mar 2025Conditional
construction of a cattle slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank together with cattle crush, dry storage area and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2581
23 Sept 2024Conditional
retention of staff accommodation & amenity rooms adjacent to existing sheds, (2) retention of rear elevation alterations where proposed dining room granted under P90/1135 was omitted in lieu of 2 no. access patio doors, (3) renovate and extend existing gate lodge, (4) install 6 no. of glamping pods to be used in conjunction with existing guest house/ enterprise, (5) upgrade existing septic tank & percolation area for existing guest house, (6) and to install new septic tank and percolation area for the gate lodge together with all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460588
15 Jul 2024N/a
Retention of ground works for agricultural/ domestic access and to construct a private dwelling house with an effluent treatment system including all ancillary site works.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2460447
11 Sept 2023N/a
Planning Permission to (1) renovate and extend existing gate lodge, (2) Install 6 no. of glamping pods to be used in conjunction with existing guest house, (3) retain staff accommodation over existing sheds, (4) retain rear elevation alterations where proposed dining room granted under P90/1135 was omitted in lieu of 2 access patio doors, and (5) upgrade existing septic tank and percolation area together with all ancillary site works
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2360365
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 Creggaunnahorna.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creggaunnahorna.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over railway line, built 1893-4; opened 1894; extant 1897. Creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with overgrown coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
- Barley Hill, farm house, 1840–1897 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1897, on a U-shaped plan with four-bay (west) or three-bay (east) two-storey side elevations. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1926. Renovated. Replacement pitched and hipped artificial slate roofs on a U-shaped plan with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, rooflights, and uPVC rainwater goods on eaves boards on overhanging eaves on cast-iron spandrels. Coursed or snecked rubble stone walls originally rendered, ruled and lined; rendered, ruled and lined surface finish (west). Round-headed central door opening in round-headed recess approached by flight of two drag edged tooled cut-limestone steps, timber doorcase with pilasters on drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold supporting "Cavetto"-detailed cornice, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed window openings with drag edged tooled cut-limestone sills, and squared limestone-blocked red brick block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing four-over-four timber sash windows. Interior including entrance hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled shutters on panelled risers. Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled cut-limestone monolithic piers to perimeter.
- Bridge, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch "accommodation bridge" over railway line, built 1893-4; opened 1894; extant 1897. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered drag edged rock faced cut-limestone coping. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning uprooted railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.
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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_214 (ZIP).
- 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 Creggaunnahorna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Creggaunnahorna · Creagán na hEorna
- Area
- 367,257 m² (36.73 ha, 90.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeena, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Kilmeena, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmeena electoral division: 1,616 people in 558 households; 88% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Attireesh, Coolbarreen, Deerpark East, Derrynanaff, Slaugar, Westport Demesne
- Placenames
- Creggaunnahorna 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.