Cregg

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregg, from 339 m² to 263,256 m² (26.33 ha, 65.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Cregg 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.

• 25 May 2018Conditional

  for an extension to the existing quarry and all associated site works including improved access and landscaping arrangements .

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18687

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 Cregg.

Recorded monuments

• GA125-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m E-W; c. 34m N-S), which was possibly a rath. A roughly NNW-SSE running field boundary clipped it at E. On inspection in May 1983 no visible surface trace survived. However, its outline is clearly visible on OSi Ortho_ITM aerial photographs dated 2005-2012 and Digital Globe aerial imagery dated 2011-2013. More recent aerial imagery dated 2013-2018 (see http://map.geohive.ie/ last accessed 27 January 2021) suggests that the monument has been quarried away as a result of the expansion of the gravel works shown c. 60m to its NW on the 2005-2012 imagery. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 27 January 2021

• GA125-043 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 September 2015

• GA125-044 Quarry
  Description

  In cleared pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1920 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

• GA125-045 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
  Description

  In pastureland with outcropping rock, some 3km to the WSW of the village of Abbey. This tomb is very ruined and comprises a gallery (L c. 4.5m; Wth c. 1.3m), aligned E-W, which is incorporated in a roughly oval mound. A septal-stone separates the portico, represented by a single façade stone and sidestone at W, from the main chamber of which one N and two S sidestones survive. (MacMahon 1978, 78) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019

• GA125-047 Kiln - lime
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Cregg, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Cregg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cregg · An Chreig

Area

646,328 m² (64.63 ha, 159.71 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballynagar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill, Creggpark, Cuilleendaeagh, Garraunphaudeen, Knockadrum, Lissaniska, Newtown South, Toorsmuttaun

Placenames

Cregg 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.