Greagh
Townland in the civil parish of Knockbride, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan; in Irish Gréach
- Area
- 111.4 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 18,804 m² (1.88 ha, 4.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greagh, from 895 m² to 135,110 m² (13.51 ha, 33.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Greagh 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
20 May 2020Conditional
retain alterations to site boundaries, elevations, plans and all ancillary works (previous planning ref 04/643)
Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20184
13 Mar 2020Conditional
for the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling, installation of a new proprietary effluent treatment system including mechanical aeration system and percolation area, and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2085
29 Nov 2018Conditional
to erect fully serviced two storey dwelling with detached domestic garage, entrance, sewerage treatment facilities and all ancillary works. Significant further information and revised plans have been submitted
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18503
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Greagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greagh.
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 20 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 Greagh.
- 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 Greagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Greagh · Gréach
- Area
- 1,114,168 m² (111.42 ha, 275.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Knockbride, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clankee
- Electoral division
- Canningstown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Canningstown electoral division: 543 people in 204 households; 95% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardmone, Ardmone East, Ardmone West, Drumhillagh, Fartagh, Latsey, Legland, Tonyduff
- Placenames
- Greagh 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.