# Creggan, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Wheery or Killagally, barony of Garrycastle, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Creagán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,684,897 m² (268.49 ha, 663.45 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,499 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Wheery or Killagally, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/wheery-or-killagally.md
- Barony: Garrycastle
- Electoral division: Moyclare, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41533
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180517
- Centre: latitude 53.285332, longitude -7.857497 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggan, from 153 m² to 313,025 m² (31.3 ha, 77.35 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 275985: 313,025 m² (31.3 ha, 77.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275985.md
- Parcel 269064: 214,602 m² (21.46 ha, 53.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269064.md
- Parcel 282705: 192,197 m² (19.22 ha, 47.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282705.md
- Parcel 313553: 139,863 m² (13.99 ha, 34.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313553.md
- Parcel 308385: 133,221 m² (13.32 ha, 32.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308385.md
- Parcel 300622: 132,191 m² (13.22 ha, 32.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300622.md
- Parcel 2388249: 129,968 m² (13 ha, 32.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388249.md
- Parcel 2978137: 119,004 m² (11.9 ha, 29.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978137.md
- Parcel 4951864: 115,251 m² (11.53 ha, 28.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4951864.md
- Parcel 270729: 111,063 m² (11.11 ha, 27.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270729.md
- Parcel 294380: 108,086 m² (10.81 ha, 26.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294380.md
- Parcel 4631887: 88,581 m² (8.86 ha, 21.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4631887.md
- Parcel 298495: 81,439 m² (8.14 ha, 20.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/298495.md
- Parcel 268908: 68,306 m² (6.83 ha, 16.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268908.md
- Parcel 269062: 62,758 m² (6.28 ha, 15.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269062.md
- Parcel 273761: 54,706 m² (5.47 ha, 13.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273761.md
- Parcel 291000: 52,419 m² (5.24 ha, 12.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291000.md
- Parcel 291001: 47,323 m² (4.73 ha, 11.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/291001.md
- Parcel 269059: 44,647 m² (4.46 ha, 11.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269059.md
- Parcel 268909: 38,559 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268909.md
- Parcel 300621: 35,415 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300621.md
- Parcel 300628: 32,057 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300628.md
- Parcel 311380: 31,865 m² (3.19 ha, 7.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311380.md
- Parcel 300626: 26,449 m² (2.64 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300626.md
- Parcel 300618: 23,640 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300618.md
- Parcel 300620: 23,441 m² (2.34 ha, 5.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300620.md
- Parcel 290998: 17,825 m² (1.78 ha, 4.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290998.md
- Parcel 2978133: 16,008 m² (1.6 ha, 3.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2978133.md
- Parcel 269058: 12,611 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269058.md
- Parcel 277274: 11,718 m² (1.17 ha, 2.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/277274.md
- Parcel 294867: 11,572 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294867.md
- Parcel 4690388: 9,812 m² (0.98 ha, 2.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690388.md
- Parcel 274441: 9,514 m² (0.95 ha, 2.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/274441.md
- Parcel 268907: 9,485 m² (0.95 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/268907.md
- Parcel 294686: 8,906 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294686.md
- Parcel 2388250: 8,876 m² (0.89 ha, 2.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2388250.md
- Parcel 299719: 8,831 m² (0.88 ha, 2.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299719.md
- Parcel 282405: 8,518 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282405.md
- Parcel 304418: 8,423 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304418.md
- Parcel 290999: 8,341 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/290999.md
- Parcel 282406: 8,214 m² (0.82 ha, 2.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/282406.md
- Parcel 275237: 8,125 m² (0.81 ha, 2.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/275237.md
- Parcel 269969: 7,936 m² (0.79 ha, 1.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269969.md
- Parcel 313701: 7,865 m² (0.79 ha, 1.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313701.md
- Parcel 269061: 7,755 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269061.md
- Parcel 269060: 7,086 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269060.md
- Parcel 272264: 5,355 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/272264.md
- Parcel 300619: 5,164 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/300619.md
- Parcel 304620: 4,769 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304620.md
- Parcel 2473841: 4,646 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2473841.md
- Parcel 269325: 4,280 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269325.md
- Parcel 2487255: 4,199 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2487255.md
- Parcel 271065: 3,944 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271065.md
- Parcel 4654315: 3,670 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4654315.md
- Parcel 284635: 3,517 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284635.md
- Parcel 269063: 3,355 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269063.md
- Parcel 269515: 3,088 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269515.md
- Parcel 311154: 2,744 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/311154.md
- Parcel 2529227: 2,218 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2529227.md
- Parcel 309578: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309578.md
- Parcel 5122477: 1,593 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122477.md
- Parcel 4690389: 839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4690389.md
- Parcel 300627: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/300627.md
- Parcel 5122475: 317 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5122475.md
- Parcel 4222535: 281 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4222535.md
- Parcel 282404: 153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/282404.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 11 Oct 2024, Offaly County Council 24150: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-BAY SLATTED SHED WITH LAYBACK, THREE-BAY MACHINERY SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/24150/0
- 30 Jul 2019, Offaly County Council 19381: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR-BAY SLATTED SHED WITH LAYBACK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19381/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Ferbane Bog SAC, site code 000575, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000575
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ferbane Bog, site code 000575

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- OF014-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF014-021----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2COF014-022----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/creggan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Creggan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyclare: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyclare.md
- Ballyvora: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyvora.md
- Clonlyon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/offaly/clonlyon-glebe.md
- Endrim: https://everytownland.com/offaly/endrim.md
- Ferbane: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ferbane.md
- Moyclare: https://everytownland.com/offaly/moyclare.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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