Creeve (Smith)
Creeve (Smith) is a townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 4662772
- Area
- 335 m²
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 103 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Creeve (Smith)
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 93.4 ha
- 231 acres
- Land parcels
- 420
- registered freehold, median 324 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 43
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
420 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeve (Smith), from 2 m² to 165,635 m² (16.56 ha, 40.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Creeve (Smith) 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jul 2026Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONVERSION OF ATTACHED GARAGE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION, (3) REPLACEMENT OF FLAT ROOF ON ATTACHED GARAGE WITH PITCHED ROOF AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661241
20 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH RENOVATION WORKS, ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FRONT PORCH, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660462
26 Feb 2026Refused
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO FOUL SEWER AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650027
22 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562322
15 Dec 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND OUTBUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 3 STOREY APARTMENT BLOCK CONTAINING 9 NO. 2 BED APARTMENTS IN TOTAL, (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CARPARKING, BIN COMPOUND, EXTERNAL STORAGE COMPOUNDS FOR EACH APARTMENT, LANDSCAPED AMENITY AREA, FOOTPATH / CYCLE PATHS AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND (4) CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES INCLUDING FOUL, STORM AND WATERMAINS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562217
9 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, MAKING USE OF EXISTING SERVICES AND INCLUDING ANY NECESSARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560946
7 Apr 2025Conditional
DEVELOPMENT OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER TO TREAT FOUL EFFLUENT FROM 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE IN LIEU OF CONNECTING INTO THE PUBLIC MAIN SEWER AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50118 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560510
22 Mar 2025Conditional
SITE FILLING AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE PUBLIC SEWER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560417
13 Dec 2024Refused
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING WITH (A) 12 NO. 1 BEDROOM, 2 PERSON APARTMENTS AND (B) 13 NO. 2 BEDROOM, 3 PERSON APARTMENTS, (2) INTERNAL CIRCULATION ROUTES, ANCILLARY AND COMMUNAL ROOMS, (3) 36 NO. CAR PARKING SPACES, (4) NEW WASTEWATER AND SURFACE WATER CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SYSTEMS AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING EXTENSION OF EXISTING PUBLIC FOOTPATH NETWORK
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462071
7 Nov 2024Conditional
DEVELOPMENT OF A SAND POLISHING FILTER TO TREAT FOUL EFFLUENT FROM THE EXISTING PUMPED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF CONNECTING INTO THE PUBLIC MAIN SEWER AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50118 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461789
24 Oct 2024N/a
DEVELOPMENT OF A SAND POLISHING FILTER TO TREAT FOUL EFFLUENT FROM THE EXISTING PUMPED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF CONNECTING INTO THE PUBLIC MAIN SEWER AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50118 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461709
24 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING, DETACHED DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) NEW CONNECTION TO THE MAINS SEWER AND DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND THE RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO ALL OTHER EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461505
16 Sept 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461456
2 Aug 2024Refused
DEVELOPMENT OF A SAND POLISHING FILTER WITHIN THE SITE AREA TO TREAT FOUL EFFLUENT FROM THE EXISTING PUMPED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM IN LIEU OF CONNECTING INTO THE PUBLIC MAIN SEWER AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50118 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461191
31 May 2024Conditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO’S. 06/80149 AND 20/50479. THE REVISIONS NOW SOUGHT ARE AS FOLLOWS: CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NO’S 94, 95, 140 & 141 AND REVISIONS TO ELEVATIONS ON HOUSE NO. 127
Permission, 5 homes · Donegal County Council, 2460809
31 May 2024Conditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO’S. 06/80149 AND 18/51993. THE REVISIONS NOW SOUGHT ARE AS FOLLOWS: CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NO’S 50, 53 & 54 AND REVISIONS TO ELEVATIONS ON HOUSE NO. 49
Permission, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2460808
18 Mar 2024Conditional
ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460350
7 Dec 2023Unconditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO'S. 06/80149 AND 18/51993 TO INCLUDE: (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NO'S 26,27,35 & 36, (2) REVISIONS TO APARTMENT NO'S 1 TO 8 TO INCLUDE RAISING OF FLOOR LEVELS, REVISIONS TO SERVICE ROAD, REVISED ENTRANCE LOCATION & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS SERVING APARTMENT NO'S 1 TO 8
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2351892
7 Dec 2023Unconditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 06/80149 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO'S 12/80073 & 17/51689: (1) REVISIONS TO PART OF INTERNAL SITE LAYOUT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE UPGRADING/REALIGNMENT OF KNOCKANAR ROAD AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER, (2) OMISSION OF 94 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AND CONSTRUCTION OF 72 NO. DWELLINGS AND 16 NO. APARTMENTS (TOTAL NO. 88 RESIDENTIAL UNITS). RELOCATION OF CRÉCHE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2351891
1 Dec 2023Unconditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 06/80149 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO'S 12/80073, 17/51689 & 21/52009: (1) REVISIONS TO PART OF INTERNAL SITE LAYOUT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE UPGRADING/REALIGNMENT OF KNOCKANAR ROAD AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER, (2) OMISSION OF 94 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AND CONSTRUCTION OF 72 NO. DWELLINGS AND 16 NO. APARTMENTS (TOTAL NO. 88 RESIDENTIAL UNITS). RELOCATION OF CRÉCHE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 4 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351855
23 Nov 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351802
29 Sept 2023Conditional
EXISTING EXTERNAL COVERED AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351467
8 Sept 2022Conditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO'S: 06/80149 AND 20/50479 CONSISTING OF (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NO'S 87, 103, 108 122,125,128,152,155 & 160 (2) MINOR REVISIONS TO LAYOUT TO INCLUDE ALIGNMENT OF ROADS AND TURNING AREAS AND ADDITIONAL PARKING TO APARTMENT BLOCKS
Permission, 9 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251501
3 Jun 2022Conditional
REVISIONS TO CRECHE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO 06/80149 AND EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REF NO'S 12/80073, 17/51689 AND 21/52011 ALSO PLANNING REF NO 18/51993 AND EXTENDED UNDER REF NO 21/52009. THE REVISIONS NOW SOUGHT ARE AS FOLLOWS, CONSTRUCTION OF REVISED CRECHE DESIGN AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO INCLUDE REVISED CARPARKING LAYOUT, SECURE TODDLERS PLAY AREAS, BIN AND BICYCLE ENCLOSURES, STORAGE SHED AND LANDSCAPED AREAS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250965
11 Feb 2022Conditional
REVISIONS TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING REF. NO. 06/80149 AND 18/51993 CONSISTING OF CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE ON SITE NO'S. 62, 73 & 74
Permission, 3 homes · Donegal County Council, 2250221
The 25 most recent of 43 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Swilly Valley Woods 002011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creeve (Smith).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creeve (Smith).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Creeve (Smith), 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creeve (Smith).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Creeve (Smith) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Creeve (Smith)
- Area
- 934,479 m² (93.45 ha, 230.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leck, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Ballymacool, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,741 people lived in 963 households in the Ballymacool electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 66% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacool, Calhame, Creeve Glebe, Lismonaghan, Oldtown, Rann, Woodpark
- Placenames
- Creeve (Smith) 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.