Creeve

49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Creeve, from 4 m² to 172,083 m² (17.21 ha, 42.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Creeve 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.

• 6 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct two slatted tanks with an ancillary concrete area with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Westmeath County Council, 2560394

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  The development will consist of changes to previously approved house extension, planning permission reference no 16/7151, to include alterations to plans to reduce the floor area, revised elevations, and alterations to existing house, replacement of the existing septic tank and percolation area with a new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Westmeath County Council, 187019

• 8 Sept 2017Conditional

  Retention Permission for a single storey extension to the south elevation of existing dwelling. Retention permission is also sought for two number bedrooms in the existing basement with external staircase to same and for one number domestic garage. The application will also consist of the retention of minor revisions to existing elevations, all associated site works and drainage.

  Retention · Westmeath County Council, 177167

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 Creeve.

Recorded monuments

• WM024-167 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a slight rise, in gently undulating, rough pasture and scrub. Ringfort (WM024-168----) lies c. 25m to WNW. Bivallate monument described as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a wide berm, an outer bank and an outer fosse. No clear entrance feature visible. The inner earthen bank is well-defined and there are slight remains of an intervening fosse. A wide berm is present outside the intervening fosse. There is a low linear bank extending radially across the berm at ESE. The remains of an outer earthen bank are almost completely defaced. Slight traces of an outer fosse are visible from SSW-W-N-E-S-SE and are completely filled up from SE-S-SSW. A later bank intersects the outer scarp at ESE. The interior has a gentle rise toward the centre and is traversed by old cultivation ridges running N-S. The site is almost completely obscured by dense vegetation. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019

• WM024-168 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a slight rise, in gently undulating, pasture. Ringfort (WM024-167----) lies c. 25m to ESE. Bivallate monument described in 1979 as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by an inner bank, an intervening fosse, a berm, an outer bank and an outer fosse with entrance at SSW. The inner bank of earth and stone is wide and low and is set on a fairly steep natural scarp from WSW-W-WNW. There are slight remains of a shallow intervening fosse visible from NE-E, outside which is a flat berm varying in width from 4m at N and S to 10m at E. On the outer edge of the berm there is a low outer bank of earth and stone. An outer fosse is visible beyond this from S-SW-W-N-NE. The interior is very uneven with stony outcrops, low rises & shallow depressions. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout with floral detail, and a ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle. Original head now removed and replaced by a modern dome finial. Set on concrete platform adjacent to modern house. Located to the southwest of Loughanavally.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Creeve.

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 Creeve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Westmeath.

Name

Creeve

Area

1,790,137 m² (179.01 ha, 442.35 acres)

Civil parish

Ardnurcher or Horseleap, and its townlands

Barony

Moycashel

Electoral division

Jamestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Jamestown electoral division: 175 people in 58 households; 84% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghabrack, Bunanagh, Clonyrina, Garhy, Killaroo, Killeagh, Killeenagh, Killeenagroagh, Kilnalug, Sraduff

Placenames

Creeve 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.