Creggaun

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggaun, from 6,960 m² (0.7 ha, 1.72 acres) to 210,400 m² (21.04 ha, 51.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Creggaun 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.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  of pl. ref. 21/1243, for additions and alterations to existing septic tank system and installation of new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area together with associated site development works and retention for existing entrance to dwelling house from public roadway. Gross floor space of proposed works: 87sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.50sqm

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Galway County Council, 26176

• 8 Jul 2021Conditional

  for additions and alterations to existing septic tank system and installation of new wastewater treatment plant and percolation area together with associated site development works and retention for existing entrance to dwelling house from public roadway. Gross floor space of proposed works: 87sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.50sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211243

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 Creggaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA061-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pastureland sloping to the E. This almost circular rath (27m NE-SW; 26.5m NW-SE) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Both banks are heavily overgrown with hazel and hawthorn. The inner bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) is best preserved from WSW to N. From N through E to S it is reduced to a scarp in places. A shallow depression (Wth 2.1-2.4m) indicates the line of the fosse from NNW to WSW. It has been filled in from WSW to NNW. The outer bank has been dug into in number of places between NNE and S. The remains of external stone-facing are visible from ESE to S. From S to WSW it has been incorporated into the curving townland boundary and it has been levelled from WSW to NNW, where its line is marked by a scarp (H 0.8m). It is best preserved from NNW to N (Wth 2.2m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 0.2m). A curving field boundary mirrors its line from N to NNE. Corresponding gaps in the banks (Wth 5.5m inner bank; Wth 4.5m outer bank) at ESE may mark the location of the original entrance. The townland boundary cuts across the interior of the rath from WSW to N. The area to its NW is overgrown with bramble. There is cattle-feeding pen to its SE. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 August 2023

• GA061-072 Enclosure
  Description

  On level marshy ground. On inspection in January 1984, this poorly preserved roughly rectangular enclosure (44m N-S; 37m E-W) was defined by a denuded bank (Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.9m) from SSE to WSW and by a scarp (av. H 0.8m) from WSW through N to SSE. Tentative traces of a possible very shallow external fosse (Wth c. 1m) were visible. A townland boundary wall cut across the S sector of the interior, from roughly ESE to WSW and the bank was only evident to the S of it. There were faint traces of N-S running lazy beds in the interior, which otherwise was clear. On re-inspection in November 2001, the area to the N of the townland boundary, about three quarters of the monument, was completely planted with trees. (Alcock et al., 1999, 187, no. 2465) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 August 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Creggaun, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Creggaun · An Creagán

Area

285,632 m² (28.56 ha, 70.58 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Castleffrench, the unit of the census

Census 2022

522 people lived in 178 households in the Castleffrench electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunavan, Clooncannon (Kelly), Creggaun (Dillon), Creggaun (Machugh), Keave

Placenames

Creggaun 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.