Creta
Creta is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon.
Parcel 4694486
- Area
- 21,799 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 862 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
- Creta
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
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 5 recorded monuments.
- RO023-078001 Church
Description
On the S-facing slope of a slight NW-SE ridge. Traditionally thought to be one of three churches founded by St. Patrick in the Trí Tuatha (O'Flanagan 1931, 33). This is the medieval parish church of Kiltrustan where a functioning Roman Catholic church was situated in the early 19th century (1837 OS 6-inch map). Slight remnants of a structure (int. dims 16m E-W; 6.8m N-S) defined by the W gable (T 1.05m) with a robbed window, and the N end of the E wall survive. Fragments of the N (L 12m; T 1.7m) and S walls (L 5m) survive as foundations. It is within a rectangular graveyard (RO023-078002-) (dims 70m NE-SW; 55m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Rath (RO023-079001-) is c. 180m to the NNE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-078002 Graveyard
Description
The parish church of Kiltrustan (RO023-078001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (dims 70m NE-SW; 55m NW-SE) defined by masonry walls. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-079001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as a subrectangular area (dims c. 25m x c. 25m) defined by a widely-spread bank and with traces of a house (RO023-079002-) in the interior and an enclosure or annexe (RO023-079003-) to one side (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Church (RO023-078001-) is c. 180m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-079002 Hut site
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope within rath (RO023-079001-). Described in 1968 as a house site (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-079003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as an enclosure or annexe attached to one side of rath (RO023-079001-) (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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 5 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 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.
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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
- 43.7 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 16,698 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creta, from 374 m² to 143,990 m² (14.4 ha, 35.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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 Creta 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
20 Jan 2026Conditional
Retention Permission to retain partly completed domestic entrance onto public road L-1404 to serve existing dwelling and Permission to complete entrance at
Retention · Roscommon County Council, 266
7 Oct 2025N/a
Permission to form new entrance from public road to service existing dwelling and associated works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2570
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Creta.
Recorded monuments
- RO023-079001 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as a subrectangular area (dims c. 25m x c. 25m) defined by a widely-spread bank and with traces of a house (RO023-079002-) in the interior and an enclosure or annexe (RO023-079003-) to one side (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Church (RO023-078001-) is c. 180m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-079002 Hut site
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope within rath (RO023-079001-). Described in 1968 as a house site (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO023-079003 Enclosure
Description
Situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as an enclosure or annexe attached to one side of rath (RO023-079001-) (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creta.
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 Creta, about 1 in 5 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 Creta.
- 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 Creta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Creta
- Area
- 437,054 m² (43.71 ha, 108 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltrustan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Roscommon
- Electoral division
- Ballygarden, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 223 people lived in 82 households in the Ballygarden electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cuilmore, Kiltrustan, Largan, Lisheen, Mihanagh
- Placenames
- Creta 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.