Creevelea

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevelea, from 62 m² to 37,324 m² (3.73 ha, 9.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Creevelea 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.

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1).To construct a single story split level type domestic extension 2. To construct a domestic garage. (3). To relocate the existing site entrance. 4. To upgrade an existing Wastewater treatment facility to comply with all current EPA code of practice criteria and all ancillary works. .

  Permission, 1 home · Leitrim County Council, 2560146

• 13 Jun 2024Conditional

  Planning permission to retain the as constructed layout and changes to planning permission PL22/138. Including the following changes: (1) First Floor changes: 2-bedroom suite to 2no. 1 bedrooms and associated changes to access and internal layout, a bedroom to a kitchen, (2) Ground Floor changes: new corridor through 2-bedroom suite and change to access to suite, kitchen and bedroom in managers suite swapped, laundry room changed to computer room and new ESB Room, all associated changes. (3) Upper Basement Changes: new corridor through 3-bedroom suite and internal changes, staff toilet and store amalgamated into a laundry room, location of internal stairs, all associated changes. (4) Lower Basement Changes: open plan kitchen and dining area with toilets and upper sitting area and ESB room in lieu of 2no. 3-bedroom suites and laundry room and all associated changes. (5) All other minor internal changes, (6) Fenestration changes at basement levels to side and rear elevations. (7) Changes to retaining wall and ground level to side with ramps from car park (8) all ancillary site works at the Abbey Manor Hotel, Main Street, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim, F91 AT22. This is a protected structure

  Retention · Leitrim County Council, 2460117

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC 001976
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill 001976

Recorded monuments

• LE014-004001 Religious house - Franciscan friars
  Description

  Situated on a shoulder overlooking the Bonet River, which is c. 150m to the NE. This is an Observant Franciscan friary, known as Carraig Phádraigh – Patrick’s Rock - founded by Owen O'Rourke and his wife Margaret O'Brien in 1508, the pious couple who also commissioned the Shrine of St Caillín of Fenagh (LE025-096001-) in 1526 (Murphy 1892). Creevelea was accidentally burned in 1536 before it was suppressed in 1541, but it continued to be used intermittently by the friars until the 1590s (O'Connell 1937, 137-50; Kelly 2019, 200-01). Con O’Rourke, a grandson of the founders, entered the order at Carraig Phádraig, but on returning from a period in Rome was martyred at Kilmallock in 1579 (ibid. 199). The church, consisting of nave, chancel, tower and S transept, survives almost complete. The cloister and domestic buildings, largely reduced to the ground-floor level and foundations, are N of the church. The nave (int. dims 18.6m E-W; 6.6m N-S) has a pointed W doorway (Wth 1.1m; H 2.1m) with a hood-moulding which has carved tendrils at the terminals. Overhead is a twin-light tracery window (Wth 1.4m; H 3.7m). Two round arches, springing from an octagonal and two attached semi-octagonal piers, lead to a S transept (int. dims 13.3m N-S; 6.75m E-W), which has a number of recesses and a large three-light pointed window (Wth 1.75m; H 4m) in the S wall from which the tracery has been removed. Its E wall has two windows, each with a two-light round-headed window and an altar inside. East of the transept is the tower (ext. dims 8.6m N-S; 3.75m E-W) supported on two round arches (Wth 3m; H 5m) with decorated terminals, and a spiral stair from the SE angle leads to two inaccessible upper levels with a chimney over the NW angle (H 15m). The chancel (int. dims 12.6m E-W; 6.6m N-S) has four twin-light elliptical-headed windows in the S wall and a four-light tracery window in the E wall. The founders of the abbey, who died in 1528 and 1512, were buried in a magnificent tomb in the chancel (ibid. 138), but the tomb does not survive. Doorways from the nave and chancel lead N to the cloister (dims 19m E-W; 17.7m N-S at W to 19m N-S at E), of which about half the arcading survives with some carved pillars (Crawford 1916a; Leask 1960, 149-51). A doorway from the chancel leads to a sacristy in the E range, from which a doorway leads to a room with a fireplace. North of this is the remains of the chapterhouse, accessed from the cloister. An entrance passage leads E from the NE angle of the cloister. N of this is a large room (int. dims 6.6m x 6.6m) with a fireplace in the N wall and a doorway at the E end of the N wall leading to a garderobe (int. dims 6.6m N-S; 4.5m E-W), which projects N and E of the ranges and had five lights. The refectory (int. dims 12.4m E-W; 6.4m N-S) with five windows, including the remains of a readers window in the N wall, is in the N range and entered from a passage at W which separates it from the foundations of the kitchen. The foundations of a later wing (int. dims 16.4m N-S; 4.5m E-W) with the remains of an oven project N from the W end of the N range, to which it is not bonded. The W range consists of two rooms, the S of which (int. dims 7.6m N-S; 4.8m E-W) has a doorway to the cloister and two on the W wall, which also has a single light. The N room (int. dims 4m N-S; 4.8m E-W) is entered from the cloister, was vaulted, and has a single light in the W wall. A connecting passage goes N to the kitchens, with a garderobe tower (ext. dims 2.5m x 2.5m) surviving to two stories off the passage to the W. A night stairs leads from the NW angle of the cloister garth to dormitories which do not survive over the W range. A small, old graveyard (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 10-20m N-S) where many of the headstones have been recorded (Crawford 1916) is attached to the N, while a new graveyard is laid out to the S. The structure is now a National Monument. Archaeological testing (93E0173) to the N failed to record any archaeological features (Crumlish 1994), and testing (03E0166) for an extension of the graveyard to the S had a similar result (Read 2006). (MacKenna and Scott 1898-9; Anon. 1914, 52-63; O'Connell 1937; Leask 1960, vol. 3, 129, 149-51; Conlon 1988, 118-19; Harbison 1970, 211-12; Harbison 2002, 47-50) This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 69 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 Amended: 3 January 2020

• LE014-004002 Graveyard
  Description

  Situated on a shoulder overlooking the Bonet River, which is c. 150m to the NE. A small, old graveyard (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 10-20m N-S), where many of the headstones have been recorded (Crawford 1916c) extends N down the slope from the cloister of Creevelea Abbey (LE014-004001-), while archaeological testing (03E0166) for a new graveyard to the S produced no related material (Read 2006). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 10 May 2016

• LE014-004003 Tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The founders of the Creevelea Abbey (LE014-004001-), Eoin O'Rourke who died in 1528 and his wife Margaret who died in 1512, were buried in a magnificent tomb in the chancel (O'Connell 1937, 138), but the tomb does not survive. Date of upload: 07 December 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Creevelea, 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 Creevelea.

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 Creevelea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.

Name

Creevelea · An Chraobh Liath

Area

176,514 m² (17.65 ha, 43.62 acres)

Civil parish

Killanummery, and its townlands

Barony

Drumahaire

Electoral division

Drumahaire, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,714 people lived in 639 households in the Drumahaire electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardakip Beg, Drumahaire, Friarstown, Mullanaskeagh

Placenames

Creevelea 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.