Creeve

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeve, from 449 m² to 98,357 m² (9.84 ha, 24.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Creeve 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 Creeve 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 Creeve.

Recorded monuments

• RO017-159 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a large circular embanked enclosure on the 1837 (ext. diam. c. 50m) and 1914 (ext. diam. c. 70m) eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a low-lying landscape. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. However, it is visible as a circular area (int. diam. c. 40m; ext. diam. c. 65m) with two bank and two fosse features surviving SSW-N on OSI Ortho images (c. 2010). Rath (RO017-158----) is c. 170m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 25 June 2018

• RO017-165001 Church
  Description

  An early ecclesiastical site founded by St Finnian of Clonard who left St Grellan there as abbot (Gwynne and Hadcock 1988, 379). The ancestry of Greallán Craoigheach (of Creeve) is not recorded but according to a late 15th century vernacular Life he became a patron of Uí Cheallaigh (O'Kelly) of Uí Máine. His feast was on the 10 November (Ó Riain 2011, 369-71). The parish church of Creeve listed as Cuff in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire., vol. 5, 223). It was described as a Franciscan Third Order possession in 1582 when it was granted to Bryan Mac Dermot (Lewis 1837, 433) but this is not substantiated. Situated at the E end of a low E-W drumlin ridge with the S-N Owenur River c. 200m to the E. The foundations of a rectangular structure (ext. dims 17m E-W; 9.5m N-S) which are visible as a stone spread are at the W end of a rectangular graveyard (RO017-165002-) (dims 57m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by a masonry wall. This is within a subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (RO017-165004-) (dims c. 125m N-S; c. 110m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at NW to 2m at ENE) NW-E-SW, with an outer fosse (Wth of base 5-6m; ext. D 0.3m) ENE-SW. There are traces of an outer bank (Wth 3.25-5m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) at ESE and S-SW, and a causeway (Wth 10m) across the fosse at E. The site of Tober Patrick well (RO017-166----), is c. 120m to the NNE. Archaeological testing (05E1095) c. 40m W of the graveyard failed to produce any related material (Sweetman 2008a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21st Janyaury, 2011.

• RO017-165002 Graveyard
  Description

  There is a rectangular graveyard (dims 57m E-W; 37m N-S) defined by masonry walls around the church (RO017-165001-). Archaeological testing (05E1095) c. 40m W of the graveyard failed to produce any related material (Sweetman 2008, 323, No. 1325). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21st January, 2011.

• RO017-165004 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  The church of Creeve (RO017-165001-) is within a subcircular enclosure (dims c. 125m N-S; c. 110m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.3m at NW to 2m at ENE) NW-E-SW with an outer fosse (Wth of base 5-6m; ext. D 0.3m) ENE-SW. There are traces of an outer bank (Wth 3.25-5m; ext. H 0.4-0.9m) at ESE and S-SW, and a causeway (Wth 10m) across the fosse at E. Archaeological testing (05E1095) c. 40m W of the graveyard failed to produce any related material (Sweetman 2008a). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21st January, 2011

• RO017-166 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Marked on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated in a wet hollow which is S of a stream at the bottom of the NE-facing slope of a drumlin. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Creeve church (RO017-165001-) is c. 120m to the SSW. 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 Creeve.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Creeve · An Chraobh

Area

1,315,555 m² (131.56 ha, 325.08 acres)

Civil parish

Creeve, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Creeve, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Creeve electoral division: 156 people in 61 households; 85% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel Upper, Carrownamaddy, Cloonybrennan, Commeen, Drummullin, Kye, Tansyfield

Placenames

Creeve 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.