Cregga

80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregga, from 74 m² to 114,757 m² (11.48 ha, 28.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 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 Cregga 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.

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  for: i. Milking parlour including handling yard, feed storage silo and milk storage tank; ii. Agricultural shed consisting of cubicle area and concrete aprons; iii. Silage slab with concrete apron; iv. Slurry lagoon and underground slatted slurry tank; v. Connections to services and all other associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 20493

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 Cregga.

Recorded monuments

• RO023-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as an oval embanked enclosure (ext. dims c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map and as a D-shaped feature (dim. c. 30m NW-SE) truncated by a NW-SE field bank at SW on the 1914 ed. Situated on a steep NW-facing slope and described as a slight arc of a bank (Gannon 1972) which is no longer visible in improved pasture. It was probably a rath. Rath (RO023-014001-) is c. 100m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-014001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of a steep NW-facing slope. Oval grass-covered area (dims 34m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 2.7-4.5m; int. H 0.2-0.4m; ext. H 1.1m at S to 2.2m at W) which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.1m) NE-SE, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 2.3-8.5m; Wth of base 2.2-3.3m; D 0.9-1.1m) which has been extended into a pond at NW. There is no identifiable original entrance, and the fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.9m; D to W 0.1m; D to E 1.2m) alone separates it from rath (RO023-014002-) which is immediately to the E. A field wall circumscribes the N perimeter of both monuments. The probable rath (RO023-013----) is c. 100m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-014002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the top of a steep NW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 30m N-S; 26.7m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.3-4.5m; int. H 0.4m generally to 0.9m at E; ext. H 1.1-1.5m) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.2m) SW-NW, and a complete fosse (Wth of top 4.5-5.7m; Wth of base 2.3-3.4m; D 0.5-0.7m). There is no identifiable original entrance, and the fosse (Wth of top 3.8m; Wth of base 1.9m; D to W 0.1m; D to E 1.2m) alone separates it from rath (RO023-014001-) which is immediately to the W. A field wall circumscribes the N perimeter of both monuments. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a steep NE-facing slope at the E end of an E-W drumlin ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 33.8m E-W; 30.9m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.5m; int. H 0.4-0.9m; ext. H 1.1-1.3m), which is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) NNW-E where it is slightly truncated by a NW-SE road bank, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 5.5m; Wth of base 3m; D 0.6m) SSW-N, which is partly dug-out W-NW. The original entrance is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-200001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Marked as a structure on the 1837 and 1914 eds of the OS 6-inch map, and situated at the NE edge of a karst limestone outcrop which is at the top of Cregga Hill. It is traditionally regarded as the site of a Mac Dermot Roe castle, although it is more likely to be O'Conor Roe (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 217). A rectangular structure (int. dims 8.3m N-S; 3.8m N-S; H 2.6m) is excavated in a rock face, with a destroyed fireplace (Wth 1.8m) and flue in the masonry face of the W wall. There is a blocked doorway (Wth 0.9m) towards the E end of the N wall with a cupboard (Wth 0.9m; D 0.4m; H 1.2m) beside it. A masonry vault is built overhead (H c. 4m) with a window under the vault in the E wall and a doorway (Wth 0.8m; H 1.6m) under the vault in its W wall (T 1.3m plus). This doorway leads onto the top of the outcrop but there is no evidence of further floors. The building was converted into a coach house when a large flat-arched doorway (Wth 2.15m; H 3.15m) with an external rebate was inserted into the E wall. House (RO023-200002-) is c. 100m to the E. (Kennedy 2000) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-200002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of Cregga Hill. Cregga was acquired by McDermot Roe in 1661 (Kennedy 2000, 80-1) and the house may have been built thereafter. Cregga House is depicted as an occupied U-shaped building with two wings extending to the SW on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The SW wing survives as a vaulted chamber (int. dims 5.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE; H 2.2m) which had an upper floor. It communicated by a doorway (Wth 1.23m; H 1.6m) in its NE wall with the rest of the house which is now represented by a grass-covered mound (dims c. 25m NE-SW; c. 5.5m NW-SE; max. H 1.5m). Three rooms and a passageway (Wth 2.3m) leading through the house to a yard (dims 12m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) between the wings can be identified in the mound. The NW wing, which survives as a featureless NW gable and a SW wall (Wth 0.6m; H 1.8m) with one window, appears to be later than the rest of the structure. An underground store (int. dims 3.3m ENE-WSW; 1.2m NNW-SSE; H 0.9m) with a corbelled roof is no longer visible. Dovecote (RO023-201----) is c. 20m to the SSE, and tower house (RO023-200001-) is c. 100m to the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO023-201 Dovecote
  Description

  On the E-facing slope of Cregga Hill and c. 20m SSE of Cregga House (RO023-200002-). This is a rectangular two-storey structure (ext. dims 3.6m NE-SW; 3.6m NW-SE; int. dims 2.2m x 2.2m) which has a barrel-vault roof, two windows, and a doorway (Wth 0.62, H 1.64m) in the NW wall. The first floor is inaccessible but has a window in the NW wall and alcoves for roosts. There are gables on the NE and SW walls. (Kennedy 2000) 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 Cregga.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Cregga · Creaga

Area

1,939,754 m² (193.98 ha, 479.32 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltrustan, and its townlands

Barony

Roscommon

Electoral division

Cregga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cregga electoral division: 166 people in 59 households; 98% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caldragh, Clooncullaan, Cuilrevagh, Dunmurraghoe, Largan, Lisduff, Lugboy

Placenames

Cregga 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.