Greagharue

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greagharue, from 188 m² to 155,723 m² (15.57 ha, 38.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Greagharue 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.

• 14 Aug 2023Conditional

  to construct industrial shed with yard, car-parking area, upgrade of existing entrance onto public roadway, connection to rear of existing Coolrite facility, landscaping and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2360139

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  a single storey extension to existing dwelling, internal & external alterations, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and ancillary site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20454

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  for a proposed single storey dwelling, proposed new oakstown proprietary waste water treatment system (septic tank) and percolation area. New entrance and all ancillary site services

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20298

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of; the construction of a two storey style dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19530

• 9 Apr 2018Conditional

  for material changes to existing dwelling house to include (A) Raising of walls and roof resulting in increase in overall height (B) Construction of a pitched slated roof over an existing flat roof (C) alteration to existing window openings. PLANNING PERMISSION for (A) completion of the building works to include plastering of the exterior of the house (B) Reconstructing of the internal partitions (C) All ancillary site development works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 18148

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 Greagharue.

Recorded monuments

• CV034-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Raised circular area (int. diam. c. 28m) enclosed by an irregular, wide, low earthen bank from SW-N-NE. At the remainder of the site the bank has been incorporated into the field boundary and from SE-S-SW a field drain runs outside of it. Outline of small rectangular house site close to the centre of the internal area. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

Architectural heritage

• Rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement glebe house, built c.1810, having slight breakfront to front elevation with single-storey porch of c.1890 between original side lights, and central bow window to ground-floor at rear. Now disused. Hipped slate roof to front with replacement slate to rear, clay tiles to ridge with pair of red brick symmetrically arranged chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Curved slate roof to rear bow. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth-rendered ruled-and-lined render finish to breakfront and porch, dressed stone eaves and plinth courses. Six-over-six timber sash windows to first floor, wider openings to outer bays at ground floor, northern bay having historic timber Wyatt window of six-over-six sliding-sash and fixed side-lights, southern bay altered as door from bridge over basement area alongside two-over-two sash window. uPVC windows to sidelights, two-over-two timber sash window to front of porch with replacement timber entrance door to side. Six-over-six timber sash windows to rear diminishing in height from ground to first floor. Central bow window rising from basement with three bowed six-over-six timber sash windows. Porch opens to steps with cast-iron railings around basement area to front of house with square-profile rendered piers resting on stone plinth. Three ranges of two-storey outbuildings enclosing courtyard to north-east with pitched slate roofs and brick chimneystacks, rubble stone walls with round-headed openings to ground floor and remains of three-over-three timber sash windows and timber sheeted doors. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge with pitched slate roof, brick gable chimneys, projecting entrance bay, and smooth rendered finish.

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 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 Greagharue.

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 Greagharue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Greagharue

Area

545,208 m² (54.52 ha, 134.72 acres)

Civil parish

Bailieborough, and its townlands

Barony

Clankee

Electoral division

Bailieborough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bailieborough electoral division: 4,230 people in 1,546 households; 73% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Greaghnamale, Leitrim, Lisanalsk, Lisnalea, Rakeevan, Tanderagee

Placenames

Greagharue 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.