Creevy

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevy, from 54 m² to 663,453 m² (66.35 ha, 163.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Creevy 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 the townland of Creevy.

Recorded monuments

• LE025-026 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  Located in pasture with some scrub on undulating low-lying ground within Ballinamore golf club. A mound (dims 35m NW-SE; c. 15m NE-SW; H 1m-1.5m) has the remains of a court with entrance jambstones at either end. There was also evidence of chambers at the NW end and at the centre of the cairn. The NW end of the cairn was damaged in 1999. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 71-2) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• LE025-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a low drumlin in mixed woodland. This is a grass and scrub-covered circular area (diam. 36.5m E-W; 33.6m N-S; int. dims 32.45m E-W; 27.8m N-S) with some trees defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4-7m; int. H 0.2m E-S to 1m W-N; ext. H 2-2.2m) and an external fosse (Wth of top 5-6.5m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 1m). The bank is best preserved at N and incorporated into a field bank NE-SE where the fosse is recut as a drain (Wth of base 1.5-2m; D 0.2m). The original entrance (Wth 2.6m) is a slight dip in the perimeter at SE, the lowest point of the interior. Rath (025-028---) is c. 50m to the S, and this monument remains unplanted, although overgrown, in a coniferous forest (Bing 2013). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 26 January 2017

• LE025-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the S-facing slope of a drumlin in a coniferous forest. This is an oval area (dims 31m E-W; 25m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 8m; max. H 1.2m) with internal stone facing which survives NW-NE. The bank is reduced to a scarp (H 0.7-1m) elsewhere and there is an external fosse (Wth of top 5-6.4m; Wth of base 3-4m; D 0.2m S-W to 0.5-1m W-N). The original entrance is not identified and the interior was planted in young coniferous trees c. 1988. The rath (LE025-027---) is c. 50m to the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 26 January 2017

• LE025-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the top of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass and scrub-covered oval area (int. dims 38m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.2m at W) which is incorporated into a field bank (ext. H 1.8m) SE-SW but reduced to a scarp (H 1m) E-SE. There is an external fosse (at W: Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.5m; D 0.8m) SW-N-NE and an entrance (Wth 4.8m) at E (downslope). The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located towards the bottom of the SE-facing slope of a drumlin. This is a grass-covered circular area (diam. 20m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by a slight bank (Wth 3m at E; 5m at W) at E and W, a scarp down to the centre at N (upslope) and an external scarp (H 0.6m) at SE. There is no visible fosse or entrance but probably is a rath. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a SE-facing slope of a low N-S ridge in pasture with the E arm (dims c. 580m N-S; c. 180m E-W) of a turlough c. 100m to the SE. This is a circular overgrown area (diam. 37.8m N-S; 37m E-W; int. diam. 35m N-S; 32m E-W) with some mature deciduous trees defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.7m at N to 2.2m at W) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.8m) ENE-SW, and an external fosse (Wth of top 3-5.2m; Wth of base 1.5-2.7m; D 0.5m N-E to 1m at W), which cannot be seen SE-SW. The entrance (Wth 4.2m) is at SE. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008

• LE025-063 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated in pasture at the E edge of a plateau with the E arm (dims c. 580m N-S; c. 180m E-W) of a turlough c. 50m to the E in season. This is a small ruinous structure of which only one portal-stone and the sillstone remain in position, with a collapsed portal-stone, sidestone and backstone nearby. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 72-3) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creevy.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1689 (ZIP).

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. Leitrim.

Name

Creevy · An Chraobhaigh

Area

1,242,125 m² (124.21 ha, 306.94 acres)

Civil parish

Oughteragh, and its townlands

Barony

Carrigallen

Electoral division

Ballinamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinamore electoral division: 1,317 people in 516 households; 66% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrum, Callowhill, Killaneen, Mayo, Tomloskan, Tullyoscar

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.