Creggaree

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggaree, from 68 m² to 67,530 m² (6.75 ha, 16.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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.

• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Creggaree in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Creggaree.

Recorded monuments

• GA027-029 Forge
  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.

• MA120-053002 Ford
  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

• The Forge, forge/smithy, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted single-storey former smithy, built c.1850, currently disused but maintained. Pitched slate roof with concrete copings to gables, and having rendered chimneystack to north gable. Roughly coursed rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed quoins and having tooled limestone decorative quatrefoil panel to front gable over entrance. Square-headed window openings to north gable and west side having dressed block-and-start surrounds, sills and lintels with replacement battened timber shutters. Square-headed intrusive door opening to east elevation having replacement timber door. Horseshoe arch vehicular entrance to south gable having tooled limestone surround, voussoirs and keystone and having replacement double-leaf battened timber door. Located on roadside.

• Bridge, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge over Canáil Chonga [Cong Canal], built c.1860, having segemental arch with dressed voussoirs, walls and piers. Snecked dressed limestone parapet with rusticated limestone coping stones. Dressed limestone blockwork to soffit.

• The Ivy, house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1840, having single-bay single-storey addition to east, side-entry porch to front, lean-to addition to west, and recent extension to rear elevation. Hipped slate roof to house with pitched slate roofs to porch and side additions and having gablets to first floor front windows with carved timber bargeboards. Limestone chimneystack to house with rendered coping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed quoins. Square-headed window openings throughout having stone and replacement render sills and dressed stone lintels having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to front, mainly one-over-one pane to rear, and replacement uPVC window to rear addition. Square-headed door openings, having replacement timber-glazed door to front and replacement battened timber doors elsewhere. Rubble limestone enclosing wall to west having square-plan gate piers with rusticated capping and replacement double-leaf timber gate.

• Canal (section of), 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Length of disused canal cutting, built c.1848. Largely cut into bedrock without any trace of lining along its length. Bridged at northern end by single-arch road bridge. Remains of dressed limestone lock, never completed, to south and having single set of gate recesses, snecked stone walls with occasional corbels and some limestone coping stones, and curved ends. Further feature located to south of basin is what was possibly intended to be used as aqueduct, comprising snecked limestone walls, ashlar voussoirs and dressed string course, located over small river.

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 Creggaree, 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 Creggaree.

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

Name

Creggaree · Creig an Rí

Area

275,119 m² (27.51 ha, 67.98 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashford or Cappacorcoge, Clogher, Cloonnamarve, Cong North (Co. Mayo), Cregaree (Co. Mayo), Drumsheel Upper (Co. Mayo), Nymphsfield (Co. Mayo), Strandhill (Co. Mayo)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Creggaree 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.