Creta

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creta, from 374 m² to 143,990 m² (14.4 ha, 35.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 38 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 Creta 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  Retention Permission to retain partly completed domestic entrance onto public road L-1404 to serve existing dwelling and Permission to complete entrance at

  Retention · Roscommon County Council, 266

• 7 Oct 2025N/a

  Permission to form new entrance from public road to service existing dwelling and associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2570

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 Creta.

Recorded monuments

• RO023-079001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as a subrectangular area (dims c. 25m x c. 25m) defined by a widely-spread bank and with traces of a house (RO023-079002-) in the interior and an enclosure or annexe (RO023-079003-) to one side (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Church (RO023-078001-) is c. 180m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-079002 Hut site
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope within rath (RO023-079001-). Described in 1968 as a house site (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-079003 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as an enclosure or annexe attached to one side of rath (RO023-079001-) (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Creta with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Creta

Area

437,054 m² (43.71 ha, 108 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltrustan, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Ballygarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballygarden electoral division: 223 people in 82 households; 92% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cuilmore, Kiltrustan, Largan, Lisheen, Mihanagh

Placenames

Creta 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.