Creenow
Creenow is a townland in the civil parish of Crosserlough, barony of Castlerahan, Co. Cavan.
Parcel 487572
- Area
- 33,808 m² (3.38 ha, 8.35 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Creenow
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 42.8 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 27,383 m² (2.74 ha, 6.77 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creenow, from 1,076 m² to 78,822 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Creenow 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
9 Dec 2025Conditional
for 1. a single-storey extension to the side and a dormer extension to the rear of an existing dormer dwelling; 2. PERMISSION for extension of the dwelling via a part conversion of the domestic garage to residential use including domestic storage above, a new front porch and a dormer extension to link the dwelling and garage conversion; 3. Alterations to elevations; 4. Upgrading the wastewater treatment system and percolation area and associated site services and development works
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560731
7 Aug 2025Conditional
to construct a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, incorporate existing domestic entrance as the proposed site entrance and ancillary site services and development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560461
23 Jul 2025N/a
to construct a single storey dwelling and a domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, incorporate existing domestic entrance as the proposed site entrance and ancillary site services and development works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560417
20 Sept 2022Conditional
for development consisting of: erection of a part two storey/part single storey dwelling with attached carport, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted.
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 22387
14 Jun 2017Conditional
to construct a four bay shed which will consist of a slatted area with underground slurry holding tank, calving pens and all associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 17263
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 Creenow.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Creenow.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creenow.
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 Creenow, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Creenow with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Creenow
- Area
- 427,502 m² (42.75 ha, 105.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crosserlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Electoral division
- Derrin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 473 people lived in 156 households in the Derrin electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumanalaragh, Drumcassidy, Druminisclin, Drumloman, Pollareagh, Sallaghill
- Placenames
- Creenow 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.