Kilcreen

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kilcreen, from 206 m² to 100,009 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Kilcreen 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.

• 11 May 2021Conditional

  permission for development consisting of permission to construct a slatted/loose house with underground slurry storage tank together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21259

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 Kilcreen.

Recorded monuments

• MO008-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located at the S tip of a N-S spur. A small circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m) is depicted only on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’. No archaeological feature is visible at ground level in pasture, although a N-S field bank just to the E has more than the usual amount of field stones. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 30 August 2017

• MO008-029 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Located towards the top of the W-facing slope and towards the N end of a N-S drumlin ridge. It is depicted as a small circular enclosure only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a small circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a slight earthen bank that has some mature beech trees planted within it. According to a local tradition, a grave with bones was found in the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 30 August 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Kilcreen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Kilcreen · An Choill Chríon

Area

618,582 m² (61.86 ha, 152.85 acres)

Civil parish

Clones, and its townlands

Barony

Monaghan

Electoral division

Clones, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clones electoral division: 517 people in 180 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalissabeagh, Aghnashalvy, Annahagh North, Cavanacross, Dernahamsha, Derrylusk, Drumgoast, Knockinure, Selloo

Placenames

Kilcreen 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.