Creggan

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggan, from 137 m² to 175,198 m² (17.52 ha, 43.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 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 Creggan 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.

• 27 Apr 2020Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house and garage with a proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20161

• 12 Dec 2019N/a

  permission for development consisting of: The construction of a dwelling house and garage with a proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19640

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Tullaghanrock Bog SAC 002354
• Special Area of Conservation: Callow Bog SAC 000595
• Special Protection Area: Lough Gara SPA 004048
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gara 000587
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tullaghanrock Bog 002013

Recorded monuments

• RO008-012 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  Marked faintly as a circular feature (diam. c. 30m) on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 74), and situated on the S end of a low ridge. Described (Gannon 1972) as a tree ring defined by a slight scarp. It is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-013001 Penal Mass station
  Description

  Described as 'Monument' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 74), and situated on the NW-facing crest of a hill. This is a conserved rectangular masonry block (dims c. 2.5m x c. 2.5m; H c. 2.5m) surmounted with a Maltese cross and with an arch (int. Wth 1.4m; L 1.4m; H 2.5m) attached to each face. There is an altar recess (Wth 1.05m; H 0.75m; D 0.25m) in each face of the central masonry block with an aumbry (Wth c. 0.2m; H 0.35m; D 0.2m) in the wall of the arch to the right of each recess. The structure is within a circular enclosure (diam. c. 9m) defined by a masonry wall with an entrance gate at NW. It commemorates the use of mass-rocks at this location, providing four altars, one of which would be the most sheltered on any particular occasion. There is an arched gateway (RO008-013003-) (Wth 2.8m; H 2.5m) with a rebate on the NE side in a field wall c. 120m to the W. See the attached general image taken from the W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-013002 Enclosure
  Description

  The four altars monument (RO008-013001-) is within a circular enclosure (diam. c. 9m) defined by a masonry wall. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-013003 Gateway
  Description

  At the bottom of a W-facing slope, and c. 120m W of the penitential station (RO008-013001-). A masonry arch (Wth 2.8m; H 2.5m) with a rebate on the NE side is incorporated into a NW-SE drystone field wall. See the attached view from the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (MA 64), and situated on a gentle SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 28m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a gapped earthen bank (Wth 3.2-4.1m; int. H 0.3-0.6m; ext H 0.4-0.7m). There is no visible fosse or recognisable entrance. The monument is overlain by an overgrown NW-SE field bank towards the perimeter at NW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-015001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope. Subcircular grass-covered but poached area (int. dims 57m E-W; 53m N-S) defined by a drystone wall WNW-N, and the intermittently visible footing of the wall elsewhere with mature deciduous trees planted inside the perimeter. There is an earthen bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) inside the perimeter S-W. The children's burial ground (RO008-015002-) abuts the inner edge of the perimeter at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-015002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Abutting the inner edge of the perimeter of rath (RO008-015001-) at SE. Rectangular grass-covered area (ext. dims 21m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by a grass-covered stone spread (Wth 3.5m; H 0.1-0.2m at W) with some inner facing stones visible on all sides except the E. It contains four lines of grave-markers (dims c. 0.25m x 0.1m; H 0.3m), and a single grave with head and foot stones is in the NW quadrant of the rath. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-016 Road - class 1 togher
  Description

  On flat bogland which is partly cut-away on the N bank of the W-E Lung river, c. 1km from where it enters Lough Gara Upper. Investigated in 1966 by E. Rynne. A N-S stone and timber structure (L c. 430m), c. 0.6-1.5m below the surface of the bog, led to what must once have been a fording point across the Lung river as it is continued by the wooden togher (RO008-027----) on the S bank. At the S end of this section the construction consisted of a sub-structure of brushwood overlain by tranverse planks (alder) retained by vertical pegs of oak and birch, with a superstructure of two layers of sandstone flags also retained by vertical pegs, forming a narrow walking surface (Wth c. 0.9m). At the N end a stone paving supported by a sub-structure of longditudional roundwoods and planks (Ash) was retained by pegs (alder and oak) above a layer of brushwood. It provided radiocarbon dates of 1398-1217 BC (3050±25 BP; GrN-14730) (Brindley and Lanting 1998, 55). It is no longer visible at ground level, although it may survive in uncut sections of bog. (NMI File; Golden 1992) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO008-061 Standing stone
  Description

  At the S end of a low ridge. A stone (dims of base 0.7m x 0.8m; H 1.2m) with no discernible orientation narrows to a flat top (dims 0.3m x 0.25m). See the attached view from the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• , 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Square-plan lime kiln, built c.1900, now disused. Random coursed rubble walls with limestone lintel to opening.

• Four Altars, church/chapel, 1700–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform penal chapel, built c.1750, with open niches to arms and stone cross to roof. No longer in use. Random coursed limestone walls and corbelled roofs. Altar located in each pointed-arched niche. Located on raised mound in a field enclosed by a random coursed limestone wall accessed through a pointed-arched entrance.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Creggan.

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

Name

Creggan

Area

2,902,183 m² (290.22 ha, 717.15 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Edmondstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Edmondstown electoral division: 458 people in 179 households; 92% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Callow or Runnawillin, Clogher (Co. Sligo), Coollena, Cross North, Cross South, Drumacoo, Keelbanada, Tullaghanmore or Edmondstown Demesne

Placenames

Creggan 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.