Creggan

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggan, from 153 m² to 313,025 m² (31.3 ha, 77.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Creggan 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.

• 11 Oct 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-BAY SLATTED SHED WITH LAYBACK, THREE-BAY MACHINERY SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 24150

• 30 Jul 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-BAY SLATTED SHED WITH LAYBACK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19381

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: Ferbane Bog SAC 000575
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ferbane Bog 000575

Recorded monuments

• OF014-021 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on high ground with good views in undulating countryside. No surface trace visible of this levelled enclosure (approx. diam 30m) except for a portion of the SE bank which is now utilised as part of a field boundary. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 526/7) shows the enclosure when it was fully intact. 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

• OF014-022 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on high ground with good extensive views in undulating countryside. Circular area (diam 25m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.5m) stone faced at N and E, external fosse (Wth 1.9m; ext. D 0.2m; int. D 0.7m) with possible entrance gap (Wth 2m) at E. The external fosse is only visible from S through W to N elsewhere it is intersected by a modern road. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Creggan · An Creagán

Area

2,684,897 m² (268.49 ha, 663.45 acres)

Civil parish

Wheery or Killagally, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Moyclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyclare electoral division: 628 people in 227 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyclare, Ballyvora, Clonlyon Glebe, Endrim, Ferbane, Moyclare

Placenames

Creggan 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.