Cregmore (Browne)
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmainemore, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Chreig Mhór (Browne)
- Area
- 70.8 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 45,601 m² (4.56 ha, 11.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregmore (Browne), from 1,106 m² to 102,117 m² (10.21 ha, 25.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Cregmore (Browne) 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
29 Sept 2023Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360403
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Skealoghan Turlough SAC 000541
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Skealoghan Turlough 000541
Recorded monuments
- MA118-035 Castle - tower house
Description
On high rocky area with small turlough to E. Poorly preserved remains of rectangular tower (8.5m N-S; 8m E-W), constructed of roughly coursed masonry. SW angle with well-dressed quoins survives (H 2.5m), with slight returns to S and W. Batter on S wall. Barrel vaulted basement is badly damaged and contains much rubble infill. Slight traces of spiral stairs remain in SW corner. Tower; stands at E end of small bawn (15m X 15m); enclosed by larger bawn (62m N-S; 52m E-W) containing corner tower (H 2m) in NE. 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. 715. Date of upload: 19 November 2013
- MA118-035001 Bawn
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.
- MA118-035002 Bawn
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.
- MA118-036 Ringfort - rath
Description
In field under cultivation. Circular area (36.5m N-S; 37.5m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.4m), levelled SE to SW. Two linear earthen banks (L 16.5m N-S; L 11.6m E-W) situated in interior. 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. 147. Date of upload: 19 November 2013
- MA118-037002 Earthwork
Description
In undulating pasture. Series of low earthen banks visible on aerial photograph (BDT 47). No visible surface traces. 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. 389. Date of upload: 19 November 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cregmore (Browne).
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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_378 (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 Cregmore (Browne) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Cregmore (Browne) · An Chreig Mhór (Browne)
- Area
- 707,823 m² (70.78 ha, 174.91 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
- Ballyjennings, Cahernacreevy, Cahernamallaght, Cregmore (Lynch), Kilquire Lower, Lisduff, Skealoghan, Tullyduff
- Placenames
- Cregmore (Browne) 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.