Greaghettiagh
Townland in the civil parish of Knockbride, barony of Clankee, Co. Cavan
Parcel 2687331
- Area
- 106,956 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres)
- Buildings
- 8 buildings touch it, 1,149 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Greaghettiagh
Planning applications on this parcel
28 Jan 2026Conditional
for (1) Construction of a two storey extension to front elevation of existing two storey type dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom and living accommodation, (2) Carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts, (3) Decommissioning existing septic tank and percolation area, (4) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (5) Completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660036
27 Jan 2026N/a
for (1) Construction of a two storey extension to front elevation of existing two storey type dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom and living accommodation, (2) Carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts, (3) Decommissioning existing septic tank and percolation area, (4) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (5) Completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660029
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 172.6 ha
- 427 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 2,901 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghettiagh, from 95 m² to 114,016 m² (11.4 ha, 28.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 44 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 Greaghettiagh 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
28 Jan 2026Conditional
for (1) Construction of a two storey extension to front elevation of existing two storey type dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom and living accommodation, (2) Carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts, (3) Decommissioning existing septic tank and percolation area, (4) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (5) Completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660036
27 Jan 2026N/a
for (1) Construction of a two storey extension to front elevation of existing two storey type dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom and living accommodation, (2) Carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts, (3) Decommissioning existing septic tank and percolation area, (4) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (5) Completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission · Cavan County Council, 2660029
22 Nov 2023Conditional
for (1) Construction of a two storey and single storey extension to end elevation of existing single storey type dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom, living and sanitary accommodation, (2) Carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts (3) Formation of new site entrance onto existing private laneway, (4) Decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area, (5) Installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (6) Completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360282
25 Oct 2023N/a
to erect new dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, boundary walls, piers with sewerage treatment system & percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2360242
22 Sept 2021Conditional
construct dormer style dwelling, domestic garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21585
6 May 2020Conditional
for (1) demolition of single storey extension to rear of existing single storey type dwelling, (2) construction of single storey extension to front of dwelling to incorporate additional bedroom and sanitary accommodation, (3) construction of single storey over basement extension to rear of dwelling to incorporate additional living accommodation with external terrace area at ground floor level with domestic garage and plant room area at basement level, (4) carrying out amendments and alterations to remaining existing elevations and floor plan layouts resulting in a revised front elevation orientation to the south-east, (5) installation of proprietary wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, (6) closing off existing site entrance onto public road and formation of new replacement site entrance, (7) completion of all ancillary and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 20164
14 Aug 2019Conditional
for a storey and a half style dwelling, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system including mechanical aeration system and percolation area, new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 19308
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 Greaghettiagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greaghettiagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghettiagh.
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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greaghettiagh.
- 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 Greaghettiagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.
The townland
- Name
- Greaghettiagh
- Area
- 1,726,181 m² (172.62 ha, 426.55 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
- Carrickacroman, Cavantimahon, Lear, Seefin, Turfad
- Placenames
- Greaghettiagh 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.