Crey
Crey is a townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Créach.
Parcel 5228775
- Area
- 20,063 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 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
- Crey
Planning applications on this parcel
21 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) Refurbishment and redesign of existing dwelling, (2) conversion of existing attic to living accommodation, including works to roof, (3) New windows at attic floor and reconfiguration of existing fenestration at ground floor and (4) new front porch, together with all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560258
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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1509 (ZIP).
- 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
- 33.7 ha
- 83 acres
- Land parcels
- 25
- registered freehold, median 3,634 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Crey, from 70 m² to 112,315 m² (11.23 ha, 27.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Crey 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
22 Apr 2026Conditional
amendments to that already permitted in P.25/60132 comprising of 1) the proposed extinguishing of an existing agricultural entrance onto the R208 & construction of a replacement vehicular entrance to the East; & 2) associated site works & services.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2660102
21 Oct 2025Conditional
(1) Refurbishment and redesign of existing dwelling, (2) conversion of existing attic to living accommodation, including works to roof, (3) New windows at attic floor and reconfiguration of existing fenestration at ground floor and (4) new front porch, together with all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560258
28 May 2025Conditional
1) the proposed reinstatement of use of an existing derelict structure to use as a dwelling along with all associated restoration works to the interior & exterior of the existing structure; 2) the proposed construction of new single storey extensions to the West & North of the existing structure; 3) the proposed construction of a new vehicular entrance to the South East; 4) the proposed demolition of the remains of the existing outhouse structure to the West; 5) the proposed construction of a new wastewater treatment system; and 6) associated site works & services.
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560132
13 Sept 2021Conditional
demolish existing single storey dwelling house, domestic storage areas and erect replacement single storey dwelling house on the same footprint. To upgrade existing effluent treatment unit and percolation area. To upgrade existing pedestrian access to provide vehicular access including all ancillary works necessary to complete the development
Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 21184
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 Crey.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Crey.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Crey.
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 Crey, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1509 (ZIP).
- 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 Crey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Crey · Créach
- Area
- 336,714 m² (33.67 ha, 83.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Moher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 217 people lived in 88 households in the Moher electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cormeeltan, Creenagh, Curragha, Drumcroman, Roscunnish
- Placenames
- Crey 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.