# Creggane, Co. Tipperary: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Youghalarra, barony of Owney and Arra, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Creagán.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 432,360 m² (43.24 ha, 106.84 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 30,721 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Youghalarra, https://everytownland.com/tipperary/parish/youghalarra.md
- Barony: Owney and Arra
- Electoral division: Youghalarra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,001 people lived in 346 households in the Youghalarra electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Tipperary, https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/46720
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 211077
- Centre: latitude 52.870103, longitude -8.281261 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creggane, from 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 146,150 m² (14.62 ha, 36.11 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 542360: 146,150 m² (14.62 ha, 36.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/542360.md
- Parcel 523308: 76,889 m² (7.69 ha, 19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/523308.md
- Parcel 516014: 46,678 m² (4.67 ha, 11.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/516014.md
- Parcel 4672985: 42,267 m² (4.23 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4672985.md
- Parcel 540898: 34,532 m² (3.45 ha, 8.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/540898.md
- Parcel 561792: 30,721 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/561792.md
- Parcel 4140748: 23,751 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4140748.md
- Parcel 494709: 19,840 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/494709.md
- Parcel 4140747: 6,903 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4140747.md
- Parcel 526924: 2,462 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/526924.md
- Parcel 547484: 2,167 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/547484.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Creggane 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)

1 application, newest first.

- 5 Apr 2017, Tipperary County Council 17600345: Conditional. Permission. (a) an extension to the Southern end to match the existing structure and to install a window at ground floor level at the Northern gable of the existing dwelling, to remove original site entrance and re-align front timber post & rail boundary as previously permitted in relation to planning permission ref: 07/51/1233 together with other ancillary works. (b) permission to retain 4 no. roof windows in the existing roof and site entrance on the northern boundary to the rear of the dwelling to replace the position as agreed in planning ref: 07/51/1233, together with associated siteworks. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC/AppFileRefDetails/17600345/0

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 Creggane.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- TN020-009: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CTN020-009----. Situated on a local rocky rise in farmland. The feature, now obscured by thorn bushes, is referred to as a 'Pagan Altar' in the OS Memoranda (1840) though no details are provided. According to an OS Name Book (1904) there were then two large stones here. A rough sketch by Seán P. Ó Riordáin dating to about the mid 1950s shows a large orthostat, some 2m high and apparently orientated E-W, at the southern edge of a pile of field stones among or on which are two partly overlapping prostate slabs. In 1967 a pile of overgrown field stones marked the spot. (De Valera and Ó Nualláin 1982, 97, No.2) Monument was described in 1915 as following; ‘In the townland of Creggawns in the parish of Youghal Ara are the remains of a Druid’s Altar and Grove. Three large stones remain; one stone is 12 feet [3.65m] high by 4 feet 6 inches [1.37m] wide, it is still standing erect; two other stones lie at its base, the latter stones are about 9 feet [2.75m] long by 1 foot 6 inches [0.45m] to 3 feet [0.9m] wide. The land in which the stones are situated underwent reclamation about twenty years ago, and many stones removed at that time. During the reclamation a stone axe was found at the base of the largest stone; the blade of axe was complete, and the stone of which it was composed was of very hard quality ; silver coins, about the size of crown pieces and of the purest silver, were also found here. About fifty yards from the altar a subterranean chamber was found, its dimensions were 14 feet [4.25m] long, 14 feet deep [4.25m] and 3 feet 6 inches [1.05m] wide- it was lined with flags. This chamber was filled with a substance resembling bone, which crumbled away on exposure to the air The present owner of the field removed a quantity of stones from the altar, they are still to be seen in the surrounding fences’ (Gleeson 1982, 507). The site has recently been partially cleared of vegetation by the landowner and the tall orthostat with possible collapsed capstone and side-stone described by Gleeson in 1915 are now clearly visible (pers. comm. Derek Ryan 26/04/2016). While the monument cannot be classified with certainty the tall orthostat with sloping top and the large prostrate slab are strongly suggestive of the last remnants of a portal tomb. The interpretation given is purely tentative and a proper elucidation of the monument must await further investigation. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien & Jean Farrelly Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 5 May 2016

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 Creggane.

## 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 Creggane, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Creggane.
- 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/tipperary/creggane.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/creggane.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/creggane.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Creggane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary: https://everytownland.com/tipperary.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Boolaroe: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/boolaroe.md
- Esker: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/esker.md
- Gorteennakilla: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/gorteennakilla.md
- Knockannamohilly: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/knockannamohilly.md
- Loughaun: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/loughaun-212360.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/tipperary/newtown-212596.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/tipperary/creggane
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/tipperary/creggane