Cree

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cree, from 441 m² to 357,924 m² (35.79 ha, 88.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cree 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.

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A LIVESTOCK SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ADJOINING HANDLING AREA, INCLUDING ALL ASSOICATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2460053

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cree.

Recorded monuments

• OF038-042 House - fortified house
  Description

  Cree [Crea] castle is depicted on the 1655-57 Down Survey map of Ballybritt barony as a tower house type fortification with an angle tower (NLI, MS 716). On this map the castle is shown located near the northern edge of the townland border between Cree and Coolnagrower. The faintest traces of low earthworks in a field are all that survive of this seventeenth century house known as Cree Castle. The upstanding remains of the castle were levelled by the landowner in the early 1980s and only a few humps and bumps mark the site of this levelled castle. This castle is the building within the townland of Cree that is mentioned in the 17th century (Loeber 1988, 73-4). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 April 2014

• OF038-046 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area with entrance gap at E visible on aerial photograph taken on 13/07/2018. See attached aerial photograph taken 13/07/2018 by Daragh Dunkin Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details kindly provided by Daragh Dunkin Date of upload: 22 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Saint Colman's Church (Kilcolman), church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted Church of Ireland church, built in 1844 with a loan from the Board of First Fruits. Entrance porch to front elevation and modern extension to north-facing side elevation. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, limestone coping, tooled limestone bellcote over entrance bay and squared limestone saddlestone over end gable wall. Pitched slate roof to entrance porch with limestone ball-finial. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone eaves course and limestone pediment to front elevation. Date plaque to front elevation. Date plaque reads 'Cree Church Erected 1844'. Pointed-arched window openings with hammer dressed limestone sills, timber Y-tracery and cast-iron lattice windows. Pointed-arched door opening to porch with timber battened door. Church enclosed behind rubble stone wall and accessed through square-profile limestone piers.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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_1674 (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.

No address of the register names Cree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Cree · An Chroithigh

Area

3,483,221 m² (348.32 ha, 860.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Ballybritt

Electoral division

Dromoyle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dromoyle electoral division: 361 people in 111 households; 91% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinree, Bigwood, Boherdeel, Castletown, Coolnagrower, Dromoyle, Kilcolman, Killeenbreaghan, Lisduff

Placenames

Cree 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.