# Creta, Co. Roscommon: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltrustan, barony of Roscommon, Co. Roscommon. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 437,054 m² (43.71 ha, 108 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,698 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltrustan, https://everytownland.com/roscommon/parish/kiltrustan.md - Barony: Roscommon - Electoral division: Ballygarden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 223 people lived in 82 households in the Ballygarden electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Roscommon, https://everytownland.com/roscommon.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/43776 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 190915 - Centre: latitude 53.821451, longitude -8.105962 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creta, from 374 m² to 143,990 m² (14.4 ha, 35.58 acres); 38 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 716470: 143,990 m² (14.4 ha, 35.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/716470.md - Parcel 652266: 112,288 m² (11.23 ha, 27.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/652266.md - Parcel 649368: 72,285 m² (7.23 ha, 17.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/649368.md - Parcel 717184: 63,707 m² (6.37 ha, 15.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/717184.md - Parcel 4694486: 21,799 m² (2.18 ha, 5.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4694486.md - Parcel 679191: 11,596 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/679191.md - Parcel 715669: 4,299 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/715669.md - Parcel 701463: 3,597 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/701463.md - Parcel 2861365: 3,008 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2861365.md - Parcel 4694651: 374 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4694651.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Creta 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. - 20 Jan 2026, Roscommon County Council 266: Conditional. Retention. Retention Permission to retain partly completed domestic entrance onto public road L-1404 to serve existing dwelling and Permission to complete entrance at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/266/0 - 7 Oct 2025, Roscommon County Council 2570: N/a. Permission. Permission to form new entrance from public road to service existing dwelling and associated works at. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/RoscommonCC/AppFileRefDetails/2570/0 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 Creta. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - RO023-079001: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-079001-. Marked as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 45m) only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as a subrectangular area (dims c. 25m x c. 25m) defined by a widely-spread bank and with traces of a house (RO023-079002-) in the interior and an enclosure or annexe (RO023-079003-) to one side (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Church (RO023-078001-) is c. 180m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 - RO023-079002: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-079002-. Situated on a slight N-facing slope within rath (RO023-079001-). Described in 1968 as a house site (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 - RO023-079003: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CRO023-079003-. Situated on a slight N-facing slope. Described in 1968 as an enclosure or annexe attached to one side of rath (RO023-079001-) (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. 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 Creta. ## 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 Creta, 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 low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creta. - 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/creta.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creta.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/creta.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Creta 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) - Cuilmore: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/cuilmore-190940.md - Kiltrustan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/kiltrustan.md - Largan: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/largan-191511.md - Lisheen: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/lisheen-191561.md - Mihanagh: https://everytownland.com/roscommon/mihanagh.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/creta - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/roscommon/creta