# Creagh, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Drum, barony of Athlone South, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 778,844 m² (77.88 ha, 192.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 22,495 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Drum, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/drum.md - Barony: Athlone South - Electoral division: Thomastown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 777 people lived in 264 households in the Thomastown electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/42611 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190893 - Centre: latitude 53.415318, longitude -8.030601 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creagh, from 157 m² to 89,550 m² (8.95 ha, 22.13 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 679398: 89,550 m² (8.95 ha, 22.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679398.md - Parcel 5777227: 79,538 m² (7.95 ha, 19.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777227.md - Parcel 648330: 55,436 m² (5.54 ha, 13.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/648330.md - Parcel 647117: 55,037 m² (5.5 ha, 13.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/647117.md - Parcel 648334: 50,865 m² (5.09 ha, 12.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/648334.md - Parcel 5777270: 48,165 m² (4.82 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777270.md - Parcel 667017: 46,620 m² (4.66 ha, 11.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/667017.md - Parcel 653257: 45,979 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/653257.md - Parcel 716135: 42,889 m² (4.29 ha, 10.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716135.md - Parcel 713175: 41,748 m² (4.17 ha, 10.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/713175.md - Parcel 648332: 35,894 m² (3.59 ha, 8.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/648332.md - Parcel 716140: 32,050 m² (3.21 ha, 7.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716140.md - Parcel 716139: 24,733 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716139.md - Parcel 716136: 23,157 m² (2.32 ha, 5.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716136.md - Parcel 5777219: 22,495 m² (2.25 ha, 5.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777219.md - Parcel 701820: 22,028 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701820.md - Parcel 5777241: 21,427 m² (2.14 ha, 5.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777241.md - Parcel 716137: 8,421 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716137.md - Parcel 722639: 8,027 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/722639.md - Parcel 5777208: 5,867 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777208.md - Parcel 714632: 4,517 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/714632.md - Parcel 648335: 3,430 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/648335.md - Parcel 712585: 2,802 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/712585.md - Parcel 5777015: 2,370 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5777015.md - Parcel 3201250: 1,699 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3201250.md - Parcel 662712: 1,260 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/662712.md - Parcel 716141: 1,201 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/716141.md - Parcel 649712: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/649712.md - Parcel 648331: 157 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/648331.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 21 Jun 2021, Roscommon County Council 21350: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/21350/0 - 31 Jan 2020, Roscommon County Council 2036: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2036/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Creagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO051-105: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO051-105----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1491, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1491.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Creagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon: https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bellanamullia: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/bellanamullia-190248.md - Cuilglass: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cuilglass.md - Curraghaleen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/curraghaleen.md - Mihanboy: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/mihanboy.md - Rooskagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/rooskagh.md - Taduff West: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/taduff-west.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/creagh