Creaghanroe

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creaghanroe, from 2,066 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 135,335 m² (13.53 ha, 33.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Creaghanroe 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  planning permission to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s)) and site works associated. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2660157

• 25 Oct 2018Conditional

  permission to construct 2 No. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal storage bin(s) and soiled water tank(s) and site works. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environment protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) will be submitted with this planning application

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18501

• 7 Sept 2018Conditional

  permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses, together with all ancillary structures ( to include meal storage bin (s), etc.) and associated site works (to include new/upgraded site entrance)

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 18420

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  The construction of a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tanks, the formation of a new entrance onto public roadway and all associated site development works

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 17364

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 Creaghanroe.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creaghanroe.

Architectural heritage

• Creaghanroe Railway Station, railway station, 1920–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Railway station complex at Creaghanroe, built c.1923, comprising railway station, remains of platform and stationmaster's house. Built as part of Great Northern Railway Line from Castleblayney to Armagh via Keady. Multiple-bay single-storey station building, with flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystack. Timber tongue and groove cladding to walls, with timber lettering 'MOORES' to road elevation. Segmental-headed window openings with original two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber block-and-start window surrounds. Square-headed fixed timber window openings to north and south ends of front elevation, one set within former doorway. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to south. Recent brick-built windbreak to front porch with metal gate. Remains of platform to rear. Former petrol station forecourt to front of site. Former stationmaster's house to north, much altered and now in use as private dwelling. Set back from road at busy crossroads.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, now vacant, with farm buildings to west. Originally comprised of three-bay house, extended by one bay to south. Pitched natural slate roof, gabled to north and south, with clay ridge tiles, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Two red brick chimneystacks, on north gable end and at junction with extension to south. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, diminishing to first floor, with rendered reveals and painted stone sills. Breakfront to front elevation, rising to meet slope of roof as catslide. Square-headed door opening with replacement metal door, having rectangular paned coloured glass over-light. Two-storey farm buildings to west, having pitched slate roofs and exposed rubble and limewashed stone walls, square-headed openings and external steps to loft to north elevation of outbuilding. Wrought-iron traffic gate to south, hanging on one roughcast rendered round-plan gate pier with render conical cap. Located to west of Castleblayney to Keady road, south of Creaghanroe crossroads.

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 Creaghanroe, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Creaghanroe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Creaghanroe · Crícheán Rua

Area

848,401 m² (84.84 ha, 209.64 acres)

Civil parish

Muckno, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Carrickaslane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

715 people lived in 240 households in the Carrickaslane electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cornahoe Upper, Corrintra, Erryroe, Lisnagreeve, Lurganboy, Tullinearly, Tullynagrow, Tullynamalra

Placenames

Creaghanroe 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.