Cregg

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregg, from 43 m² to 34,127 m² (3.41 ha, 8.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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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.

• 9 Oct 2025Conditional

  for the replacement (“restringing”) of the existing OHL circuit conductor wires with a new higher capacity conductor between structure no. 81 and 161; the replacement of angle masts in-situ at 3no. locations, with similar structures; the painting of a tower at 1no. location; the replacement of polesets at 54no. locations, with similar structures. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16 m to 23 m along the circuit. The majority of the height increases will be between 0.1 m and 2.0 m (at 40no. structures), with 13no. structure replacements resulting in no change in height. Structure no. 109 will increase in height by 3.0 m; the replacement of insulating and ancillary hardware at all structures from structure no. 81 to 160; the replacement of stay wire / anchors and associated fittings at 3no. locations; the replacement of crossarms at 59no. locations; the installation of fibre wrap on phase conductor between structure no. 1 and structure no. 161; all associated temporary site development works to gain access to the existing structures including the removal and reinstatement of 220m of hedgerow / field boundary (estimated using Táilte Éireann data), vegetation clearance and management, disassembly and reassembly of gate posts / piers and removal and reinstatement of existing fencing; and other temporary associated and ancillary site development works required for the purpose of the uprate of the existing circuit, including construction compounds, silt traps, silt fences, vegetation clearance and management, stone tracks, ground protection mats, infrastructure crossing support systems (i.e., guard poles) and a temporary watercourse crossing to access structure no. 160. Where required, an aerial catenary stringing system will be used to facilitate stringing operations over major obstacles, e.g., national roads, rivers, etc. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561471

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  for a proposed extension to the existing GAA grounds to facilitate the upgrading of an existing training pitch to a full size main pitch No. 02 and the provision of an additional full size playing pitch, main pitch No. 03

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561409

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  of: (i) the existing wall-ball facility and associated flood lighting, (ii) relocation of the car parking facility, granted under Pl. Ref. No. 01/4152, within extended site boundaries. Permission to extend the existing wall-ball facility and permission for the provision of an all-weather Astro turf training facility including for the associated flood lighting

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461212

• 19 Apr 2024Conditional

  to create a new 6400mm (21Ft) opening to an existing stone wall at L-6195 as well as a new access gates and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460430

• 12 Sept 2023Refused

  (i) of the existing wall-ball facility & associated flood lighting; (ii) retention of the relocation of the car parking facility, granted under pl. ref. no. 01/4152, within extended site boundaries; (iii) permission to extend the existing wall-ball facility. (iv) permission for the provision of an all-weather astro turf training facility including for the associated flood lighting at the Annaghdown GAA Club grounds

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2361088

• 27 Sept 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a single dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 282 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211776

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 288.1sqm (House) & 60sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211228

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

• GA069-020 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In low-lying woodland. This tower house, built by the Kirwans in 1648, is incorporated into a later house which was altered and enlarged in the Georgian period when two wings were added (Bence-Jones 1978, 94). Surviving features of the tower house include corbels in the basement, which still support massive oak beams of the floor above, the main hall and, in E wing, broken corbels which supported the battlements: these suggest the tower was four storeys high. Hood-mouldings above blocked-up windows are visible on N wall. A semi-pointed doorway in this wall, now partially covered with plaster, may also be an original feature. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 271; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 288) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA069-022 Church
  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.

• GA069-022001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA070-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 56m) defined by the arc of a grassed-over drystone wall from NE to SE. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S, to W of which only slight traces of the enclosing element are visible. Stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 28; Claffey 1983, 156) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA070-056 Church
  Description

  On a slight rise in low-lying level grassland. When originally visited in August 1983, it consisted of a poorly preserved and heavily overgrown rectangular church (E-W; L 11.9m, Wth 5m), probably of late medieval date. Apart from E gable (Wth 0.9m, H 4.5m), only the lower courses of the other walls survived. There was a large gap (Wth 0.8m) in the centre of N side-wall, to W of which the wall line appeared to have been rebuilt a little to S of the original. The S side-wall (Wth 0.6m) and W gable (Wth 1.8m) also appeared to have been at least partly reconstructed. The only surviving architectural feature was a plain single-light round-headed window in E gable. In 1988, the church was extensively 'rebuilt' as part of a graveyard-cleaning scheme, and a grotto-like feature was built on the line of W gable. The church stands just off-centre in an oval graveyard (E-W c. 70m, N-S c. 40m) defined by a modern stone wall (ASGAP 167:77), possibly mirroring the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. This monument also extends on to OS sheet 69 (GA069-022----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA070-056001 Graveyard
  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 Castle, house, 1640–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multi-period house, comprising tower house of 1648 at centre, later modified and refenestrated to three-bay two-storey over half-basement, flanked to west by lower two-bay two-storey with attic over half-basement block of c.1780 with two-bay gable elevation, and to east by slightly lower three-bay three-storey over half-basement L-plan block of c. 1870 with gables over eastmost bay of front and rear elevations. Lower four-storey return block at right angles to rear of middle and west blocks, having two-bay elevations. Further two-bay single-storey block to rear of four-storey return, two-bay two-storey block to west of west block and with single-storey block further west again. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with crenellations to earlier blocks, supported on corbel tables, west end of west block having machicolation-style detail. Cemented roughcast walls. Square-headed timber transom and mullion windows of c.1870 to front elevation top floor and to middle floor of east block. Windows to basement and ground floor front and to lower floors at rear boarded up. Some timber sliding sash windows to rear, including twelve-over-nine pane window to return block, and some replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway to middle of middle block, having double-leaf mid-eighteenth-century door with raised and fielded panelling and original brass knocker, doorknob and heart-shaped cover for keyhole, with block-and-start render surround and set on perron approached by two flights of limestone steps protected by cemented walls. Square-headed doorway to east block having similar surround and timber panelled door and also reached by flight of steps. Outbuildings of c.1800 to rear of house comprise multiple-bay three-storey block with pitched slate roof having rubble limestone chimneystacks and bellcote, partly lime-rendered rubble limestone walls, square-headed openings, doors being timber battened, external steps to first floor at west gable, with iron railings. Yard encircled by tall crenellated wall. Lower multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to rear at right angles. To east is two-bay single-storey building with pitched slate roof and lime-rendered coursed rubble walls, square-headed doorcase and a tiny window. Tarred forecourt bounded by recent boulder wall to front of house, with pasture field beyond.

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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_523 (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 Cregg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cregg · An Chreig

Area

952,540 m² (95.25 ha, 235.38 acres)

Civil parish

Annaghdown, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Liscananaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,601 people lived in 521 households in the Liscananaun electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aucloggeen, Barravilla, Gardenham or Garrymore, Glebe, Nineacres

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.