Greenville
Greenville is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmichael, barony of Muskerry West, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Choill Ghlas.
- Area
- 184 ha
- 455 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 2,799 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenville, from 13 m² to 209,580 m² (20.96 ha, 51.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Greenville 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
21 Dec 2022Conditional
Permission for retention for garage and shed for domestic use adjacent to existing dwelling and all associated works
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/6841
27 Jun 2022Conditional
Construct two storey dwelling and sewerage system, accessed off existing laneway and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 22/5489
19 Nov 2019Withdrawn
To construct new two storey dwelling, domestic garage with loft storage, site entrance, sewerage treatment system and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 19/6743
18 Feb 2013Conditional
Two-storey dwellinghouse and detached single storey garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, new site entrance with walls and piers and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 13/4267
31 Oct 2012Withdrawn
Two-storey dwellinghouse, detached single storey garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, new site entrance with walls and piers, and all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/6258
12 Dec 2008Conditional
Construction of extension to existing dwelling and replacement of existing flat roof front porch with A-frame construction and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/10088
12 Nov 2008Conditional
Raising of existing roof to provide first floor extension to bungalow & construction of bay window to front elevation. Retention of conversion of attached garage to living accommodation, ground floor extension to front of dwelling, porch extension, installation of velux windows, conversion of attic to storage area & detached domestic garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 08/9658
21 Sept 2007Conditional
Installation of proprietary treatment unit to serve existing dwellinghouse to replace septic tank
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/11152
31 Mar 2006Withdrawn
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/6013
12 Aug 2005Refused
Dwelling
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/5822
17 Jun 2005Conditional
Milking parlour building (including dairy, plant room, cow collecting yard, loose pens and underground slurry tank) and machinery shed
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/4244
10 Sept 2004Conditional
Dwellinghouse
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/6902
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 Greenville.
Recorded monuments
- CO083-031 Designed landscape - ornamental lake
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO083-036001 Hilltop enclosure
Description
In pasture, on hilltop. Subrectangular area (66m N-S; 85.4m E-W) enclosed by partially stone-faced earthen bank (H 2.5m), with infilled external fosse (D 0.2m) to NNE. Gaps in bank to SE (Wth 3.4m) and NE (Wth 4m). Silage pit against outer bank face to NNW; concrete wall and floor to E; roadway to S. Interior level to W; sloping downhill in E half. Possible souterrain (CO083-036002-) inside bank to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO083-036002 Souterrain
Description
In enclosure (CO083-036001-), close to bank to S. Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 178) noted the discovery of 'several apartments, communicating by narrow passages' in an 'ancient rath' on the demesne of Greenville. Shallow depression may indicate position. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
- CO083-037 Dam
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- CO083-141 Bridge
Description
Remains of road bridge (Wth 4.5m) over Cummer River. Single overgrown segmental arch (span 2.7m) survives on W bank; roughly cut sandstone voussoirs. Probably originally two or three-arched bridge. Disused road (Wth 2.5m) runs NW-SE to E of bridge. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenville.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Greenville, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greenville.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Greenville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Greenville · An Choill Ghlas
- Area
- 1,839,866 m² (183.99 ha, 454.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmichael, and its townlands
- Barony
- Muskerry West
- Electoral division
- Greenville, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 309 people lived in 99 households in the Greenville electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardaneneen, Clearagh, Dunmarklun, Knockane, Lackareagh, Teereeven
- Placenames
- Greenville 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.