Creagh

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creagh, from 157 m² to 89,550 m² (8.95 ha, 22.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Creagh 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.

• 21 Jun 2021Conditional

  permission for the construction and operation of a solar PV farm, which will operate as an extension of the consented TDC Community Solar Park (Roscommon County Council Planning Ref. 20/36). The solar PV development will consist of solar arrays on ground mounted steel frames, with a maximum overall height of 3 metres, over an area of 60 ha and ancillary electrical equipment including string inverters and up to 13 no. transformer stations, and all other associated site development works and services, including: Internal solar PV farm underground electrical cabling and ducting; 1 no. temporary construction compound; Security fencing; CCTV camera stands; Provision of internal access tracks, including the installation of clearspan bridge structures, linking the solar PV development with the consented TDC Community Solar Park track network; Site drainage and landscaping, as required to facilitate the development. The solar PV development will use the site entrance (via the L2026 local road) consented under Pl Ref. 20/36. Planning permission is sought for a period of 10 years with an operational life of 30 years from the date of commissioning. (The application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)) at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 21350

• 31 Jan 2020Conditional

  for the development of a solar PV panel array comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames within a site area of 70 hectares, 19no. single storey inverter/transformer stations, 1no. single storey DSO substation and DSO access road, 1no. single storey customer substation, 1no. single storey spare parts container, boundary security fencing with access gates, CCTV security cameras, associated electrical cabling and ducting, upgraded and new access tracks and all associated ancillary development and landscaping works on land at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2036

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

• RO051-105 Cist
  Description

  Located on a rise in a low-lying undulating landscape, it was at one time close to the NW angle of a field and was preserved during land reclamation. This is a rectangular feature (dims 1.2m E-W; 1.1m N-S) defined by a stone at E (dims 1.2m N-S; 0.25m E-W; H 0.6m) and N (dims 0.8m E-W; 0.2m N-S; H 0.4m), and drystone walling at S. It is surrounded by an overgrown spoil mound (dims c. 8m E-W; c. 5m N-S; H c. 1m). 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 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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1491 (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 Creagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Creagh

Area

778,844 m² (77.88 ha, 192.46 acres)

Civil parish

Drum, and its townlands

Barony

Athlone South

Electoral division

Thomastown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Thomastown electoral division: 777 people in 264 households; 92% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bellanamullia, Cuilglass, Curraghaleen, Mihanboy, Rooskagh, Taduff West

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.