Creggs

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggs, from 45 m² to 138,641 m² (13.86 ha, 34.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Creggs 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.

• 29 Jun 2026N/a

  to refurbish and renovate and addition of 1st floor and change of use to a domestic dwelling "Creggs Presbyterian Church" which is a protected structure record no:30402001 and connect to existing services and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661092

• 29 Jan 2026Refused

  to refurbish and renovate to include the addition of a 1st floor and change of use to a domestic dwelling of "Creggs Presbyterian Church" which is a protected structure record no :30402001 and connect to existing services and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660112

• 28 May 2024Conditional

  for: (i) the construction of a connecting single-storey school extension, containing a 2No. Classroom SEN Base, 1 No. Central Activities Space, together with all associated ancillary educational spaces and circulation area. Installation of a new raised percolation area and attenuation tank. Together with the provision of a bus drop off area, pedestrian footpaths and all associated ancillary site works, along with connections to services. (ii) Permission for Retention for the relocated synthetically surfaced sports pitch and associated fencing and floodlighting, previously granted under PL. Ref No.: 13/78. Gross floor space of proposed works: 448.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460637

• 26 Sept 2023N/a

  to refurbish & renovate an addition of 1st floor & change of use to a domestic dwelling ''Creggs Presbyterian Church'' which is a protected structure record no: 30402001 & connect to existing services & carryout all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361152

• 4 Aug 2022N/a

  to refurbish and renovate and addition of 1st floor and change of use to a domestic dwelling “Creggs Presbyterian Church” which is a protected structure Record No: 30402001 and connect to existing services and carryout all ancillary site development works.Gross floor space of proposed works 150.60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260790

• 18 Aug 2020Conditional

  for 1. Construction of Sports Complex building, comprising gymnasium, dressing rooms, club rooms, toilet facilities and ancillary development with proprietary sewerage treatment plant and percolation area. 2. Permission for retention of existing development on site comprising Astro Turf playing pitch, Spectator Stand and flood lighting standards erected on the grounds of Creggs R.F.C. at the Green, Creggs, Co. Galway.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201155

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 Creggs.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creggs.

Architectural heritage

• Creggs Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Presyterian church, built c.1860, having four-bay nave, and now ruined but undergoing renovation. Pitched roof missing covering. Limestone ashlar walls. Pointed-arch windows to nave with lighter coloured limestone dressings. Pointed-arch doorcase to gable-front with moulded surround and hood-moulding, set in shallow projection having trefoil window opening above and bellcote with round-arched bell opening and low-pitched, pyramidal roof. Entrance gates have limestone piers of rusticated limestone with capstones and cast-iron gates.

• Parnell Monument, monument, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding ashlar limestone monument to Charles Stewart Parnell, unveiled 1946, in form of aedicule framing portrait sculpture of Parnell. Aedicule made up of piers, which resemble jambs, and support lintel capped by stepped pyramid. Portrait framed with words 'Ireland a Nation' and 'Let my love be conveyed to my colleagues and to the Irish people'.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having fluted shaft, spout with bucket grip, banding above spout, fluted neck with attached cow's tail pumping handle, and fluted conical cap with pointed finial. Flat metal base set in concrete on platform with recent rubble walling to front, approached by two steps, and flanked by flared coursed limestone and rendered walls. Stands next to graveyard of disused and ruinous Church of Ireland church.

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 Creggs, about 1 in 10 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

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

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

Name

Creggs · Na Creaga

Area

374,184 m² (37.42 ha, 92.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbegnet, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Creggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

351 people lived in 139 households in the Creggs electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 23% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghagad (Co. Roscommon), Creggauns, Derryhippoo (Co. Roscommon), Millford, Park

Placenames

Creggs 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.