Creggaun

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggaun, from 18 m² to 153,120 m² (15.31 ha, 37.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Creggaun 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 Creggaun 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 Creggaun.

Recorded monuments

• MA049-060 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA049-061 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA049-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a rise. This possible rath is shown on 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It has been levelled. The S arc can still be traced as a slight, levelled scarp. There is a cashel (MA050-002001-) 70m to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA049-063 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 6 January 2012

• MA050-002001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located a gentle break of slope on the S side of an E–W ridge, with excellent views in all directions. This ringfort, possibly a cashel, is engulfed in dense blackthorn and brambles, which impeded inspection. It consists of a broadly oval area (c. 25m E−W; 20m N−S) defined by a substantial sod-covered stony bank (Wth c. 3-4m; int. H 0.3m at SW, 1m at NW; ext. H 0.8m at SW, 1m at NW), possibly a collapsed drystone wall, which is covered in dense overgrowth and piles of field clearance stones. There appears to be a gap (Wth c. 3-4m) at N, now obscured by overgrowth. The interior is level, built up on the S side to compensate for the natural ridge slope. There is a souterrain (MA050-004002-) in the centre of the interior. A stony rise is evident on the S edge of the interior, possibly a field clearance heap; it is obscured by overgrowth. A possible rath (MA050-001-/MA049-062-) is located 70m to W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-002002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a possible cashel (MA050-004001-). A souterrain is indicated as ‘Cave’ on the S perimeter of the cashel on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and in the centre of the interior on 1929 edition. A shallow sunken feature (2m E–W; 1m N–S; D 0.2m) defined by stones is evident beneath dense overgrowth to W of centre in the cashel interior. It may be a collapsed souterrain passage. Surface depressions adjacent to this at NE and W may also relate to the souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

• MA050-003 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, located at the break of slope on the S side of an E–W ridge, with excellent views E–W–S but somewhat restricted to N. There is a ruined 19th century farmstead immediately adjacent at N. Broadly oval area (21m N–S; 24m E–W) enclosed by a ruined stone wall (Wth 1.5-2m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.2m). This cashel has been modified as a result of incorporation into a series of later field walls, and by its use as an extension of the farmstead, which lies to N. It is bisected centrally by a farm lane (Wth 2m) flanked by field walls, now tumbled, which extends to SSE through the cashel from the farmstead, and an E–W field wall, now ruined, divides the W half of the interior into two equal quadrants.. The cashel wall is evident as a sod-covered jumble of stones; sections at W have been rebuilt in modern times. At ENE–SE it is largely obscured by heaps of field clearance debris, which have been push up against it following the removal of nearby field walls. This gives the wall enclosing the E side of the enclosure a linear appearance. At S the wall appears to have been built on top of a scarp, cut into the natural slope, but this now obscured by heaps of field clearance. The interior has a slight slope to S in the S half. A break (Wth 5.8m) in the enclosing wall at N allows access from the farmyard to the cashel interior, but this is unlikely to have been the original entrance. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Creggaun, about 1 in 10 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 Creggaun.

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 Creggaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Creggaun · An Creagán

Area

1,525,083 m² (152.51 ha, 376.86 acres)

Civil parish

Killasser, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Tumgesh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 136 households in the Tumgesh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attinaskollia, Belclare (Co. Sligo), Carrownageeragh, Cartron, Cartronmacmanus, Drumagh, Knockbrack (Co. Sligo), Toorard

Placenames

Creggaun 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.