Creggawatta

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggawatta, from 1,671 m² to 102,329 m² (10.23 ha, 25.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Creggawatta 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Creggawatta 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 Creggawatta.

Recorded monuments

• MA111-049 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In average pasture, located on a fairly level plateau, defined at SE−S by limestone outcropping, with commanding views of the surrounding gently undulating limestone grassland. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) crossed E of centre on a N–S axis by a field boundary; not shown on the 1930 edition. The outline of a roughly circular enclosure (48.5m N–S; 52.5m E–W) can still be discerned, defined by the remnants of a stone bank or wall (Wth 1.8-2m; H 0.2m). The wall survives as a sod-covered, flat-topped rise from which stones protrude randomly. At N–NE its outer edge is clipped by a later E–W property wall. The enclosure straddles the natural contours of the elevation, with the enclosing wall at E at a slightly lower level that exterior ground level, and coinciding at SE–SW with a break of slope where the ground falls away in a series of natural terraces. The interior is level and not noticeably raised above exterior ground level. The surface is uneven and disturbed in parts, especially in the W half, by pockets of past quarrying of bedrock seams. A N−S field wall which crossed the interior has been removed, but slight traces of it can still be seen. Remnants of a relict field boundary on a NE–SW axis abut the enclosing wall at NE. Sunk in the enclosing wall at NW is a limestone slab. In its naturally corrugated surface is a circular depression (diam. c. 0.3m), in the base of which there are three smaller depressions. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 December 2022

• MA111-095 Burnt mound
  Description

  In pasture, located on a gentle E–facing slope which bordering a natural depression of wet ground fed by a spring. The ground falls to E for c. 6m towards a small pool. This possible burnt mound is evident as a low amorphous rise, without clearly defined limits. When inspected in 2000, the top (diam. c. 5m) of the rise has been denuded by farm stock revealing a concentration of limestone fragments in soil noticeably darker than in the surrounding field. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 March 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Creggawatta, 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_448 (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 Creggawatta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Creggawatta · Creig an Bhata

Area

521,325 m² (52.13 ha, 128.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommon (Ballinrobe Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilcommon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

676 people lived in 257 households in the Kilcommon electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brittas, Kilcommon, Lissatava, Shantallow

Placenames

Creggawatta 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.