Creevagh
Creevagh is a townland in the civil parish of Tullycorbet, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Chraobhach.
- Area
- 85.7 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 1,834 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevagh, from 710 m² to 63,652 m² (6.37 ha, 15.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Creevagh 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
2 Jun 2021Conditional
permission to construct a two storey dwelling house with detached domestic garage, new site entrance & proprietary waste water treatment system, along with other associated ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21321
11 Mar 2021Conditional
permission for a development consisting of the infilling of lands and raising of ground levels using imported inert material consisting of natural excavated sub-soil and stones, and builder's rubble to a depth of approximately 1-2 metres over an area of 0.423Ha and all associated site works and site access road. The land will be infilled with imported inert material not exceeding 25,000 tonnes. This development will require a Certificate of Registration in accordance with the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007, as amended. In accordance with Article 81(ca) and 120(1B)(b)(i) of the above-mentioned regulations, Monaghan County Council, as the competent authority, has concluded from a Screening Determination, based on an examination of the nature, size and location of the proposed development that there is no real likelihood of significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development and as such has determined that an EIA is not required. The details of which are available to the general public. At any time before the expiration of 4 weeks from the date of publication of this notice, any person may apply to An Bord Pleanála for a screening determination as to whether the proposed development would be likely to have significant effects on the environment
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 218003
25 May 2017Conditional
Permission to erect a single storey dwellinghouse with a detached domestic garage including a proprietary wastewater treatment system & polishing filter plus associated site works. Permission is also sought for the extension of a new vehicular laneway accessing proposed dwelling including upgrading works to entrance. The required significant further information/revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17250
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 Creevagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creevagh.
Architectural heritage
- Creevagh Reformed Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1785–1905 · Regional interest
Description
Free-standing single-cell gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1789 and refurbished 1900, having four-bay long walls. Pitched slate roof with rendered copings and replacement rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, roughcast rendered to south elevation with render quoins and inscribed date plaques to front (north) elevation. Pointed-arch window openings to long walls with margined Y-tracery timber lights under render mouldings and having tooled limestone sills, pointed opening to south elevation with timber tracery. Recessed pointed-arch door opening to front elevation having render moulding, and double-leaf timber battened door opening to rounded splayed concrete steps. Interior having smooth rendered walls, with timber panelled dado to nave, having flat plastered ceiling with roll-moulded cornice. Central line of nineteenth-century carved pews flanked by an aisle and pews to east and west, original timber flooring throughout. Carved wooden pulpit with pointed-arch arcade to centre of south end, having steps from nave to each side. Timber panelled screen with pointed-arch detail behind pulpit, filling pointed-arch window opening. Chamfered rendered window surrounds, with timber sills. Two pointed-arch door openings, with timber door surround and panelled doors, accessing vestibule at north end. Dog-legged timber stairs to west of vestibule, accessing meeting room at first floor level. Graveyard to east and grassy area to west, with hedge to road having wrought-iron pedestrian gate, and with gateway having square-plan render piers with stone caps set at diagonals to west elevation.
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 Creevagh, about 1 in 20 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2377 (ZIP).
- 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 Creevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Creevagh · An Chraobhach
- Area
- 856,942 m² (85.69 ha, 211.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullycorbet, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Caddagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 544 people lived in 181 households in the Caddagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghnaclea, Caddagh, Edenaferkin, Lantaur, Monantin, Shantonagh
- Placenames
- Creevagh 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.