Creevagh

242 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevagh, from 10 m² to 161,887 m² (16.19 ha, 40 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 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.

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 21615

• 21 Dec 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20655

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH PROPIERTARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20542

• 19 Oct 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 20504

• 25 Aug 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20387

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19270

• 31 May 2019N/a

  DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, ENTRANCE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER, CONNECTION TO SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19254

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Shannon Callows SAC 000216
• Special Protection Area: Middle Shannon Callows SPA 004096
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Shannon Callows 000216
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Nanag Esker 000910

Recorded monuments

• OF005-037001 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  According to the OS Field Name Books these trees were 'In the E. part of Creevagh td. about 28 chains S.S.W. of the junction of the river Shannon and the tds.of Creevagh and Clonmacnoise. These trees stand in the centre of the road leading from Shannon Bridge to Ballynahown.' Not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-037002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Well known as 'Merrigan's Well' trackway identified in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area as a holy well (McDonald 1987, 14). Not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-038 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  Cairn identified in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area (McDonald 1987, 25). Appears to be a natural glacial hillock with no archaeological features visible. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-043 Souterrain
  Description

  Souterrain identified in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area (McDonald 1987, 11). Not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-044 Well
  Description

  'Corlains Well' identified as a holy well in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area (McDonald 1987, 7). This appears to be a secular well with no religious associations. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-045 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Site of a ringfort identified in 1987 survey of the Clonmacnoise area (McDonald 1987, 10). Not visible at ground level. 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. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-062 Post row - peatland
  Description

  Two pairs of ash stakes (Wth 0.4m; D 0.8m), inserted to various depths with tops machine damaged. The stakes (diam. 0.035-0.043m) are cut to chisel points and irregularities along the surfaces have been trimmed away. Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin). Date of upload: 23 May 2011

• OF005-063 Structure - peatland
  Description

  The location of this site was surveyed but the site was destroyed before a written record could be made. A birch roundwood, however, was identified from this site. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1992. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creevagh.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creevagh.

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 Creevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Creevagh · An Chraobhach

Area

5,248,982 m² (524.9 ha, 1,297.05 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmacnoise, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Clonmacnoise, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonmacnoise electoral division: 345 people in 124 households; 91% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clonmacnoise, Clorhane, Leitra, Tullaghbeg

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.