Creggan and Glosterboy

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggan and Glosterboy, from 14 m² to 66,965 m² (6.7 ha, 16.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 22 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Village Centre/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C3Enterprise and Employment (Office, business/technology park and related)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Strategic Residential Reserve
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S5Community Services/Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space, Amenity and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Offaly County Development Plan 2021-2027, Offaly · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 25 May 2026Conditional

  development at Saint Mary’s Parochial Hall (RPS No. 30-06), which is also listed on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Reg. No. 14811006). The development will consist of: The construction of a single-storey rear extension to the existing Parochial Hall, together with all associated site works, services connections, and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development. The proposed works are designed to remain subordinate to the existing Protected Structure, to support its ongoing community use, and to ensure full compliance with conservation and development plan requirements

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660278

• 1 May 2026N/a

  The construction of a single-storey rear extension to the existing Parochial Hall, together with all associated site works, services connections, and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development. The proposed works are designed to remain subordinate to the existing Protected Structure, to support its ongoing community use, and to ensure full compliance with conservation and development plan requirements. Permission for development at Saint Mary’s Parochial Hall (RPS No. 30-06), Ferbane Street, Cloghan, Co. Offaly, which is also listed on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (NIAH Reg. No. 14811006)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2660236

• 27 Mar 2025Conditional

  (i) Construction of a canopy at existing car wash slab and construction of a fuel storage shed; (ii) Installation of bicycle shelters; (iii) Extension of hours of operation of fuel card pumps to 24 hours per day; (iv)Access to parking area for overnight truck parking.

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 2560096

• 14 Jun 2024Conditional

  1. A motor retail showroom extension (Area: 120 sq.m.) to the south side of the existing showroom and new showroom vehicle loading door. 2. A motor vehicle workshop extension to the rear (Area: 370 sq.m.) 3. A first floor mezzanine office extension over the new showroom (Area: 60 sq.m.) and associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460224

• 9 Jun 2024N/a

  1. A motor retail showroom extension (Area: 120 sq.m.) to the south side of the existing showroom and new showroom vehicle loading door to the north side. 2. A motor vehicle workshop extension to the rear (Area: 370 sq.m.) 3. A first floor mezzanine office extension over the new showroom (Area: 60 sq.m.) and associated ancillary site works on exiting site.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2460215

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A DWELLING HOUSE TO A CRECHE FACILITY, DEMOLISH EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AS PREVIOUSLY AGREED WITH OFFALY COUNTY COUNCIL AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY CRECHE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 22116

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF; A NEW SINGLE-STOREY SERVICE STATION WITH PETROL/DIESEL FILLING STATION AND CANOPIES, RETAIL WITH ANCILLARY OFF-LICENSE, RESTAURANT, UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS (FOR FUEL), PICNIC AREA, PARKING FOR CARS, TRUCKS, HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES, BUSES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES INCLUDING: NEW ENTRANCE, TWO TOTEM SIGNS, BOUNDARY FENCING, GATES AND CONSTRUCTION OF A CAR WASH, SERVICE YARD, GAS STORAGE AREA AND ASSOCIATED PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 19420

• 21 Jun 2019Conditional

  THE ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND REAR OF AN EXISTING PRIVATE DWELLING; ALTERATIONS WITH PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE; DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK; AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL ASSOICATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Offaly County Council, 19294

• 19 Apr 2017Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING CRECHE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 17135

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 Creggan and Glosterboy.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creggan and Glosterboy.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1880, with return and extensions to rear and porch to façade. Set back from street. Hipped tiled roof with terracotta ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks. Pebbledashed walls with smooth rendered plinth and quoins. Replacement uPVC windows with tooled stone sills. Square-headed door opening recessed within round-headed porch with replacement uPVC door. Front site bounded by low plinth wall surmounted by cast-iron railings.

• Saint Mary's Parochial Hall, 1945–1955 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted three-bay single-storey parochial hall, built in 1950, with projecting flat-roofed porch. Fronting directly onto street. Barrel-vaulted corrugated-iron roof. Smooth rendered plinth to pebbledashed walls with stepped gable. Blind and timber casement window openings with painted sills. Square-headed door opening with overlight, sidelights and timber battened double doors, set within flat-roofed projecting porch. Auxiliary gable-fronted barrel-vaulted corrugated-iron structure to north-east.

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 Creggan and Glosterboy, 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 Creggan and Glosterboy.

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 Creggan and Glosterboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Creggan and Glosterboy · An Creagán agus Clais tSearbhóg

Area

646,850 m² (64.69 ha, 159.84 acres)

Civil parish

Gallen, and its townlands

Barony

Garrycastle

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,044 people lived in 375 households in the Cloghan electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughan, Cloghan, Coolreagh or Cloghanhill, Killeenboy, Killowney Beg, Magherabane

Placenames

Creggan and Glosterboy 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.