Creagh

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creagh, from 73 m² to 296,538 m² (29.65 ha, 73.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

• S5Social/Community/Education/Public Utility (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
  LONGFORD COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2021-2027, Longford · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Jul 2026Conditional

  renovation of existing derelict gate lodge to include a new roof to accommodate first floor dormer, single extension to the rear, amendments to relevant elevations, installation of new WWTP and percolation area (all within the curtilage of a Protected Structure Kilcommock Glebe Rectory & Outbuildings) and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Longford County Council, 2660216

• 21 Mar 2023Conditional

  to erect a three bay double dry bedded shed and all associated works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2358

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of 140 sq. m. single storey outbuilding to rear boundary of site, the construction of driveway and hard standing adjacent to existing dwelling

  Permission · Longford County Council, 1769

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 Creagh.

Recorded monuments

• LF022-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in low-lying pasture. A slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 28m) enclosed from W-N-NE by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.4m; H 0.1m) and elsewhere defined by a scarp (H 0.5m). At the exteranl base of the scarp at S are traces of a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.1m). A break (Wth 1.5m) in the bank at W may mark the original entrance. Some outcropping rock is evident within the interior. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 3 December 2011

• LF022-024 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NNW-facing slope in pasture. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this raised circular area (diam. c. 63m) was enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone and a shallow external fosse. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.3-0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Creagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Creagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Creagh · An Chríoch

Area

916,944 m² (91.69 ha, 226.58 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcommock, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Kilcommock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,161 people lived in 410 households in the Kilcommock electoral division. 62% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartronawar, Clogh, Glenmore, Keenagh, Kilcommock Glebe, Laughil

Placenames

Creagh 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.