Creevagh

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creevagh, from 396 m² to 162,973 m² (16.3 ha, 40.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Creevagh 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 Oct 2024Conditional

  extension to house

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2460378

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 Creevagh.

Recorded monuments

• SL041-024 Souterrain
  Description

  In rough pasture, in a hollow covered with overgrowth, at the base of a S-facing slope. A narrow lintelled entrance is visible extending into the slope. Named 'cave' on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL041-025 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope overlooking Lough Skean to SE. An oval raised area (int. diam. 28m x 30m) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.6m; T 2.4m). Along the E arc the wall has collapsed down the slope. The cashel is densely covered with overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL041-026 Sweathouse
  Description

  Listed in both the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified 'Sweathouse'. Near a stream, c. 500m N of Lough Skean and built against a rock outcrop. A rectangular chamber (Wth 0.5m; H 0.9m) with drystone walls and a corbelled roof covered by a rocky mound (1.5m x 2.9m; H 1.9m). There is a partially blocked lintelled doorway on the N side. The sweathouse is covered with overgrowth. It is likely to be post-1700 AD in date. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC Date of upload: 10 January 2012

• SL041-027001 Hut site
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope, c. 100m N of Lough Skean. There are no visible remains of this hut site. It was described during a previous site inspection in 1993 (SMR (1989) file) as an oval structure (5.3m N-S) with sod-covered limestone slab walls (T 1.1m; int. H 1.25m; ext. H 1.3m). The walls were lower on the W side forming an entrance (Wth 0.4m). The interior was scooped out and the E side was covered with overgrowth. A quarry lies immediately to S. Though named 'Giant's Grave' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map, the remains were not those of a megalithic tomb. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Creevagh.

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 Creevagh.

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 Creevagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Creevagh · An Chraobhach

Area

1,364,881 m² (136.49 ha, 337.27 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmactranny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirerrill

Electoral division

Kilmactranny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmactranny electoral division: 360 people in 133 households; 93% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardline, Carricknagrip, Carrigeenboy, Corderry (Co. Roscommon), Kilmacroy (Co. Roscommon)

Placenames

Creevagh 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.