Cregg Demesne

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregg Demesne, from 467 m² to 509,139 m² (50.91 ha, 125.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Demesne 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.

• 30 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a new entrance to existing dwelling house and farm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360316

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: Cregg House Stables, Crusheen SAC 002317

Recorded monuments

• GA133-006 House - 18th/19th century
  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

• Cregg House, gates/railings/walls, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates to Cregg House, erected c.1850, comprising double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate, flanked by matching pedestrian gates, all flanked by square-profile cut limestone piers having plinths. Moulded cornices, continuous to each set of piers, acting as lintels to pedestrian openings, with crenellations above. Flanking walls of hammer-dressed ashlar limestone having cut-stone copings, walling to north-east curving around corner. Adjoining estate walls of rubble limestone. Cast-iron post-box to wall, no longer in use. Gateway to north-west comprising double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate flanked by square-profile dressed limestone piers with flat copings, cast-iron pedestrian gate to north, having tooled limestone block-and-start surround and spearhead gate, and rubble stone stile, set within rubble stone wall with rubble coping stones.

• Cregg House, folly, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding square-plan single-bay two-stage folly tower, built c.1810. Pitched slate roof with recent roof light to front. Rubble limestone walls having roughly dressed limestone quoins, with projecting corbel to south-east corner supporting flat stone slab. Pointed arch opening to east elevation with red brick to upper part of surround, and timber battened door. Pointed arch openings to front and side elevations with red brick and tooled limestone surrounds, tooled limestone sills and recent timber-framed leaded and stained-glass windows.

• Cregg House, walled garden, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Square-plan walled garden, built c.1800, having rubble stone walls. Two-storey single-bay outbuilding adjoining attached to north wall of interior, having pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and pointed-arch openings with dressed stone voussoirs with keystones. No roof, and rubble stone walls to single-storey outbuilding. Square-headed pedestrian opening to south wall of garden with squared stone voussoirs. Segmental-headed opening to east wall of garden having cut-stone voussoirs and square stone surround. Opening to north elevation flanked by pair of square-profile rubble stone piers.

• Cregg House, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c.1850, having full-width flat-roofed extension to rear (north-east) elevation and flat-roofed entrance porch to front. Hipped slate roof with tooled limestone chimneystack, and timber eaves brackets. Tooled cut limestone walls having string course, rubble stone walls to side elevations, and lined-and-ruled render to porch. Square-headed opening to south-east side of porch, with replacement timber door. Square-headed half-glazed timber panelled door to rear. Square-headed window openings throughout, with tooled limestone sills and voussoirs, and replacement uPVC windows. Render sill to porch window. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate adjoining road gable, with dressed limestone pier of entrance gateway.

• Cregg Bridge, bridge, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch limestone road bridge, built c.1780, over River Carheeny. Rubble walls, piers, abutments and parapets, and dressed voussoirs to round arches, with dressed stone V-cutwater to north elevation. Gateway at west end to Cregg House, comprising square-plan rubble piers with redent metal double-leaf gate.

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 Demesne, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cregg Demesne · An Chreig

Area

1,287,899 m² (128.79 ha, 318.25 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

789 people lived in 274 households in the Beagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygeagin, Bunnahow (Co. Clare), Cappanapeasta (Co. Clare), Carheeny More, Carheenybaun, Drumgooaun, Knocktoby, Scarriff

Placenames

Cregg Demesne 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.