Cregg
Townland in the civil parish of Newtownlennan, barony of Iffa and Offa East, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Chreig
- Area
- 285.7 ha
- 706 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 3,157 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cregg, from 95 m² to 693,689 m² (69.37 ha, 171.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cregg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Dec 2023Conditional
converting the existing outbuilding into a habitable dwelling, construction of extension to the building, installation of a new Domestic Wastewater Treatment System for the new dwelling, installation of a new Domestic Wastewater Treatment System to serve the existing adjacent dwelling on the site, new entrance onto the public road and all associated works
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 2361038
14 Jul 2023Conditional
a) renovation and alterations to two storey dwelling known as Steward’s House, b) renovation and alterations to outbuilding and change of use from outbuilding to two storey living accommodation, c) renovation and alteration to the stable outbuildings and hay store building, d) construction of roof over silage pit and the change of use of this and adjoining roofed silage pit to loose stabling, e) construction of equine buildings including 2 no. steel framed stable buildings, a horse walker and lunge ring, haybarn, walled manure pit with effluent tank, f) all associated site works associated with the above including hardstand areas, storm and effluent drains, and new septic tank, g) construction of new haybarn and 3 no. run-in horse shelter buildings on the farm lands west of the Cregg house, and PERMISSION to carry out the following: 1. alterations to and extension of existing foul and effluent drains, including the installation of a new effluent tank and upgrade of the septic tank system to incorporate an effluent treatment system and associated percolation area - works are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 2360516
6 Sept 2019Conditional
demolition of existing 20 century extensions to the side and rear of gate lodge, the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, the installation of an on-site waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works. The Lodge is within the curtilage of Cregg House, which is listed as a protected structure in the South Tipperary Development Plan RPS Ref No S155 and the Lodge is also listed on the N.I.A.H. Ref No 22207908
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600986
21 Aug 2019N/a
demolition of existing 20 century extensions to the side and rear of gate lodge, the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, the installation of an on-site waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works. The Lodge is within the curtilage of Cregg House, which is listed as a protected structure in the South Tipperary Development Plan RPS Ref No S155 and the Lodge is also listed on the N.I.A.H. Ref No 22207908
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600925
26 Jul 2019N/a
demolition of existing 20 century extensions to the side and rear of gate lodge, the construction of a new single storey extension to the rear, the installation of an on-site waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated site works. The Lodge is within the curtilage of Cregg House, which is listed as a protected structure in the South Tipperary Development Plan RPS Ref No S155 and the Lodge is also listed on the N.I.A.H. Ref No 22207908
Permission · Tipperary County Council, 19600830
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Suir SAC 002137
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cregg.
Architectural heritage
- Cregg Bridge, bridge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Five-arch rubble stone road bridge over river, c.1800. Random rubble stone walls with dressed rubble stone triangular cut-waters to piers, and rendered rounded coping to parapets. Series of five segmental arches with cut-stone voussoirs, and rubble stone soffits. Sited spanning Lingaun River with grass banks to river.
- Cregg House, country house, 1825–1835 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey country house over half basement, built c. 1830, with central rear stairs return, three-bay side elevations, having two-bay three-storey offset addition to northwest corner and recent stairway to rear. Hipped slate roofs with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls, smooth to basement with limestone plinth between. Two round-headed windows to rear of house, fixed timber window to rear wall and timber sliding sash nine-over-six pane windows with cobweb fanlight to stairs return. Square-headed openings elsewhere, with timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six panes to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first and barred three-over-three pane to basement, all with limestone sills. Elliptical-headed entrance opening with Ionic limestone doorcase and portico having pulvinated frieze, moulded architrave and cornice, with timber panelled door and decorative spoked fanlight, approached by flight of limestone steps with cast-iron railings. Cast-iron external stairway to west side of addition. Extensive outbuildings, steward's house, and walled garden to rear. Gate lodge, gates and railings to site entrance.
- Cregg House, gate lodge, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Detached double-pile two-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1825, with later single-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roofs with red brick chimneystacks and bracketed sheeted eaves and decoratively-carved timber bargeboards to front elevation. Recessed square-headed panels with round-headed multi-light windows with lozenge-shaped lattice glazing. Square-headed entrance opening with timber panelled half-glazed double doors, sidelights and overlights. Wrought-iron garden gate to front and rubble limestone boundary walls with dressed limestone coping, bollards and cast-iron chains, and tooled chanelled limestone piers to demesne entrance.
- Cregg House, walled garden, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
Description
Former walled garden, built c. 1825, now in use as chicken run, with disused garden building to south-west corner and buttress to north side of entrance archway in west wall. Rubble limestone walls, brick-lined to inside of north wall, and having slate capping to garden. Elliptical-arched entrance opening with dressed limestone voussoirs. Pointed arch opening to east wall having brick voussoirs and surround. Garden building is two-bay single-storey with hipped slate roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings.
- Cregg House, farmyard complex, 1850–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of farm buildings, built c.1865. Comprises four-bay two-storey former steward's house, built c. 1865, with full-height canted-bow to south gable, projecting gabled entrance bay and flat-roofed two-storey extension to rear, now in use as house, and having pitched slate roof with brick and rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered walls, square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with tooled limestone sills, and replacement timber door. Five-bay lofted single-storey outbuilding attached to north gable of house with pitched slate roof, brick chimneystack, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Building to north-east of house comprises lofted single-storey stables with pitched slate roofs, rendered bellcote, rendered walls, square-headed openings, and lean-to additions with corrugated-iron roofs. Buildings to east of that with bellcote comprise L-plan multiple-bay two-storey stables, built c. 1825, having rubble stone external staircase to west elevation, with hipped slate roofs, unpainted rendered walls, and square-headed openings with louvred fittings. North side of yard has integral elliptical-arched carriage entrance leading towards walled garden and flanked by single-storey outbuildings with lean-to slate roofs. Yard to west of house comprises multiple-bay two-storey stables, having pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, roughly-dressed limestone walls with cast-iron tie-bars, and square-headed and elliptical arched openings with brick voussoirs. Building to to west has hipped slate roof, rubble limestone walls, and elliptical-arched integral carriage arch with brick voussoirs.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cregg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cregg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Cregg · An Chreig
- Area
- 2,856,799 m² (285.68 ha, 705.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Newtownlennan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Iffa and Offa East
- Electoral division
- Carrick-On-Suir Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick-On-Suir Rural electoral division: 515 people in 182 households; 91% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyrichard, Castletown (Co. Kilkenny), Cloghapistole, Killonerry (Co. Kilkenny), Knocknaconnery, Mainstown, Newtown Lower, Tinvane, Whitechurch (Co. Kilkenny)
- Placenames
- Cregg 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.