Greaghagibney

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghagibney, from 225 m² to 141,887 m² (14.19 ha, 35.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Greaghagibney 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.

• 20 Jul 2025Conditional

  for 1. The construction of a 4-no. bed bungalow type dwelling 2. The construction of a domestic garage 3. To construct a new private site entrance with proper sightlines of 90m. 4. A new sewage treatment system with percolation area 5. Connection to the local group water scheme (Clifferna). 6 To maintain the existing hedgerow and all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560411

• 13 May 2025Conditional

  for a bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, formation of new site entrance onto the public road, installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and completion of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560233

• 25 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct a new bungalow style dwelling house & detached domestic garage, install new mechanical effluent treatment system with following percolation area. New entrance onto public road together with all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2461

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  renovate derelict dwelling, construct single storey extension to side of same, install effluent treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360074

• 26 Jun 2023N/a

  renovate derelict dwelling, construct single storey extension to side of same, install effluent treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360067

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto public road, install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2368

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  for construction of a bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, formation of new site entrance onto existing laneway, installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and completion of all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21475

• 17 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a storey and a half style dwelling with detached domestic garage, form new entrance from public roadway, install waste water treatment system and percolation area, together with all associated site works. Significant further information / revised plans have been submitted.

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18437

• 13 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a bungalow type dwelling, domestic garage, form new site entrance onto existing laneway, install proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17530

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 Greaghagibney.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greaghagibney.

Architectural heritage

• House, shop/retail outlet, 1910–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1930, with entrance between eastern bays and integral shop to western bay, set on sloping site exposing full basement level to rear with recent return. Flat roofed single-storey over basement side extension to the west, c.1970. Hipped slate roof with clay ridge tiles, eaves course, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Substantial smooth rendered chimneystacks with capstones indicating a tripartite internal plan and hearth-lobby entrance to domestic section. Smooth rendered walls, stucco pilasters to corners. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with wide margin panes, stone sills, and raised stucco surrounds. Segmental-headed entrance with stucco surround, replacement door with shallow fanlight, and sidelights over low sills. Shopfront having raised stucco architrave enclosing door and large fixed double pane window divided vertically over a low sill. Double-leaf timber battened door to shop. Historic shop interior with back screen to display window with diagonal sheeting. Timber battened doors to basement level to rear. External concrete stair up to ground level of return. Range of outbuildings to side with rendered walls and pitched corrugated-iron roofs. House and shop open directly to footpath, set back from road, with small garden at east bay enclosed by horizontal railing on plinth wall.

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

At the centre of the townland of Greaghagibney, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greaghagibney.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Greaghagibney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Greaghagibney · Gréach Uí Ghibne

Area

2,126,781 m² (212.68 ha, 525.54 acres)

Civil parish

Larah, and its townlands

Barony

Tullygarvey

Electoral division

Larah South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

507 people lived in 173 households in the Larah South electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bogesky, Carrickacroman, Carricknamaddoo, Clifferna, Knockataggart, Moylett, Tirlahode Upper

Placenames

Greaghagibney 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.