Creeves

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeves, from 1,242 m² to 421,605 m² (42.16 ha, 104.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Creeves 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 Feb 2022Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22145

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a slatted cubicle house and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201261

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 Creeves.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-149 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough low-lying pasture, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.05m) best preserved WNW->NNE. Bank, masked by vegetation overgrowth S->WNW and NE->E, is eroded by cattle E->SE (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m). Bank partially quarried out at SE where crescent shaped area (Wth 11m) extends into interior for c. 8m. Interior, covered by scrub vegetation, has roughly circular mound of stones near centre (5m N-S; 4.9m E-W; H 0.4m). A stony bank (H 0.5m) abuts enclosure at NNE and extends 20m to NNE before fading out. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-150 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map and as penannular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is not apparent in area covered by rough grazing with numerous limestone outcrops which are covered by thickets of scrub. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-156 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope of hillock, in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular area (33.4m N-S; 36.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m) best preserved SSE->W. Entrance (Wth 5m) at E. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-157 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope in area of outcropping limestone. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. Site now evident as oval area (40.5m N-S; 31m E-W) covered with clover and thistles in field otherwise covered by grass. A farm passage skirts around E and S sides of this area. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-158 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope into river valley. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Farm passageway runs tangentially to site of enclosure along W side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop low limestone hillock. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 36m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.75m; Wth 6.6m); entire enclosure is covered in dense overgrowth of briars and thorn bushes, with scarp only accessible at SE and NNW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-255 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying rough pasture, on the W edge of a small pond in an area of outcropping limestone. A circular mound of burnt material (diam. 8.3m; H 1.05m). The mound is best preserved along its E side where it borders the pond. It lies 10m SE of another fulacht fia (LI019-262---). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-262 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying rough pasture, close to the W edge of a small pond, in an area of outcropping limestone. A crescent-shaped mound (H 0.7m; 6m NW-SE; 6.1m NE-SW) of burnt material. The opening faces N and is completely obscured by a dense overgrowth of briars. Another fulacht fia lies 10m to the NW (LI019-262---). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Creeves, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_488 (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.

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

Name

Creeves · An Chraobh

Area

1,048,475 m² (104.85 ha, 259.08 acres)

Civil parish

Lismakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Lismakeery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

479 people lived in 167 households in the Lismakeery electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinloughane, Conigar, Cooltomin, Creeves, Liffane

Placenames

Creeves 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.