Creevy

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevy, from 274 m² to 295,195 m² (29.52 ha, 72.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Creevy 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.

• 11 Oct 2023Refused

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, proprietary wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360162

• 7 Jul 2023Conditional

  proposed demolition of an existing semi detached single storey dwelling house with outbuilding together with the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, redesign of existing entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360081

• 23 Jun 2023N/a

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 2360065

• 30 Sept 2022Refused

  the proposed construction of a bungalow type dwelling house with detached garage, entrance, boundary fence/wall, suitable onsite sewerage system with polishing filter and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22230

• 12 Mar 2021Conditional

  to construct two 4-bay slatted sheds and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2172

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling and erect fully serviced single storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, new entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17245

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 Creevy.

Recorded monuments

• LF011-008 Barrow - pond barrow
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope, c. 55m to the NE of a standing stone (LF011-010----). A stone circle (LF011-007----) is c. 840m to the WNW. A concave, circular area (base diam. 12m; max. diam. 30.9m) enclosed by a wide and much-denuded, low bank of earth and stone (base Wth 13.4m; top Wth 7m; H 0.2m) with a wide, shallow, external fosse (base Wth 6m; top Wth 19.3m; D 0.25m). The surface of the concave area is between 0.25m (NNE) and 1.3m (SSE) below the external ground level and is similar morphologically to the possible pond-barrow (LF010-073----) at Ballybrien.Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 14 November 2011

• LF011-010 Standing stone
  Description

  On a NNW-facing slope in pasture. Indicated on all editions of the OS 6-inch map. This irregularly shaped, limestone block (H c. 2m; Wth 1.3m; T 0.3m) is aligned NNE-SSW. A possible pond- barrow (LF011-008----) lies c. 55m to the NE and a stone circle (LF011-007----) is c. 760m to the WNW. (Fredengren et al. 2010, 104, Pl. 3.12) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012

• LF011-071 Standing stone
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. This almost flat-topped, long, upright stone (H 1.05; Wth 1.2m; T 0.55m) is aligned NNW-SSE. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 1 March 2012

Architectural heritage

• Creevy House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic level, built c. 1780, with recent single-storey extension to the rear (southwest). Half-hipped slate roof with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks. Painted roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, rendered block quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings with replacement double glazed timber sash sliding windows, smooth rendered reveals and with painted limestone sills. Venetian/Serlian window to centre of main elevation (northeast) at first floor level. Central round-headed door opening having cut limestone rusticated block-and-start surround with architrave and with timber panelled door. Doorcase flanked to either side by square-headed sidelights with stained glass windows and painted limestone sills. Set back from road within its own grounds, atop a steep incline. Modern boundary walls and gateway to site. Located to the northeast of Granard, close to the border with County Cavan.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creevy.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Creevy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Creevy · An Chraobhaigh

Area

2,228,292 m² (222.83 ha, 550.62 acres)

Civil parish

Granard, and its townlands

Barony

Granard

Electoral division

Creevy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creevy electoral division: 326 people in 116 households; 95% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghaboy (Co. Cavan), Ballinrud East, Ballywillin, Cartronbore, Cloghchurnel, Cullaboy Upper (Co. Cavan), Springtown, Tullygullin (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Creevy 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.