Cregaree

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregaree, from 12 m² to 288,265 m² (28.83 ha, 71.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Cregaree 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.

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  for the extension and renovation of the existing dwelling house, the upgrade of the existing septic tank system, and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661254

• 31 Jan 2025Conditional

  McGraths Limestone Works Ltd. intend to apply for permission for development at Cregaree, Cong, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the deepening of 19 ha. of the existing permitted quarry extraction area (Plan File Ref. No. 20/77: ABP-308748-20 & Plan File Ref. No. PL16.SU0132: QD16.QD0009) from 5 mOD to -12 mOD; Landscaping and restoration of the site; All associated ancillary facil-ities/works. The applicant is seeking a 25-year permission as part of the planning application. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560055

• 18 May 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the refurbishment and modification of the existing derelict dwelling house, together with the construction of a new dormer rear extension, installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works and landscaping.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460304

• 10 Feb 2020Conditional

  REMOVAL OF VEGETATION AND OVERBURDEN, EXTRACTION OF ROCK BY BLASTING AND ROCK BREAKING MEANS, LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF SITE, ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES/WORKS (25 YEAR PERMISSION)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2077

• 24 Sept 2018Conditional

  EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING WORKSHOP/GARAGE AND THE ERECTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES WITHIN THE EXISTING QUARRY

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18724

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house and garage which will be connected to the existing public sewer. Gross floor space of proposed works 325sqm (House 285sqm and Garage 40sqm).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171514

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 Cregaree.

Recorded monuments

• MA120-038 Leacht cuimhne
  Description

  The leacht cuimhne stands on top of an outcropping rock on the north side of the road. It consists of a squat masonry pillar with a pyramidal cap that is surmounted by a roughly-cut cross. A plaque set in its southern side bears a weathered inscription. Hayward (1954, 31) records that: ‘This monument commemorates one of those tragic incidents all too common in the darker history of the west, when, arising out of some feud, John Joyce was set on by his enemies and brutally beaten to death, the same fate overtaking his wife when she went to his rescue. All around this cenotaph you will see little piles of stones and rude stone and wooden crosses. These are known as Crusheens ‒ Croisíní - Little Crosses ‒ and they have been placed here in memory of the dead who passed this way to their last resting place.’ Further information is provided by Fahy (1978, 19‒20) who noted that ‘it commemorates Mary Joyce, a young woman who was killed in a family feud in 1712. The incident was a sensation at the time, three young men, brothers, being subsequently hanged at Ballinrobe Gaol for their part in the affair.’ (O'Dowd 1998, 204) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 November 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1850–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over canal, built 1852; complete 1854. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone walls with lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Canáil Chonga [Cong Canal] with overgrown embankments to canal.

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 Cregaree, 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 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 Cregaree.

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 Cregaree with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Cregaree · Creig an Rí

Area

869,748 m² (86.97 ha, 214.92 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Cong, the unit of the census

Census 2022

994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalahard, Breandrim (Co. Galway), Cloonnamarve (Co. Galway), Cregdotia (Co. Galway), Creggaree (Co. Galway), Drumsheel Lower, Drumsheel Upper, Gortnaclassagh (Co. Galway)

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Cregaree 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.