Grillough
Grillough is a townland in the civil parish of Clonfert, barony of Duhallow, Co. Cork. Its name in Irish is An Ghreallach.
- Area
- 146.6 ha
- 362 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 2,333 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grillough, from 46 m² to 197,919 m² (19.79 ha, 48.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Grillough 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
27 May 2025Conditional permission
Permission for two storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4991
1 May 2025Incompleted application
Permission for two storey dwelling, domestic garage, sewerage system, site entrance and all associated works
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4821
25 Mar 2025Conditional permission
Permission to a) construct a new dwelling house, b) construct a new vehicular entrance, c) install a new bored well and d) install a new septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission · Cork County Council, 25/4515
20 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission for retention of change of use from shop (commercial use) to residential use at ground floor level and as integrated part of existing private dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 22/4080
13 Dec 2021Incompleted application
Retention of change of use from commercial use to residential use at ground floor level and as integrated part of existing private dwelling.
Retention · Cork County Council, 21/7320
2 Feb 2018Conditional
Construction of a two storey dwelling, with entrance, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4270
2 Jan 2018Incompleted application
The construction of a two storey dwelling with entrance, detached domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area.
Permission · Cork County Council, 18/4001
13 Jun 2012Conditional
(a) Amalgamate house numbers 3 and 4 into one dwelling house with elevational changes and construction of extension to same , (b) decommission 2 no. existing septic tanks and install a proprietary effluent treatment system and polishing filter with all associated site works, and (c) change of site layout from existing with all associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 12/5290
21 Dec 2007Conditional
Alterations, ground floor extensions and change of use of existing dwelling to public house, construction of first floor extension over same for use as dwelling unit/apartment and construction of detached dwellinghouse and domestic store/garage
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/13327
28 Nov 2007Incompleted application
(a)Change of use from existing dwellinghouse to proposed public house including first floor extension and (b) New dwellinghouse with associated services
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/12699
16 Feb 2007Conditional
Extension to dwelling, detached garage and effluent treatment system
Permission · Cork County Council, 07/5147
14 Jul 2006Conditional
Construction of foul water treatment plant to serve residential development permitted under Reg. No. 04/1928
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8895
16 Jun 2006Incompleted application
Construction of foul water treatment plant to serve permitted development 04/1928
Permission · Cork County Council, 06/8175
17 Nov 2005Withdrawn
Construction of treatment plant and associated foul and surface water reed bed systems to serve residential development granted under 04/1928
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/8465
16 May 2005Conditional
Alterations and extensions to school including 3 no. classrooms and new entrance area, new site entrance and associated site works
Permission · Cork County Council, 05/3298
23 Mar 2004Conditional
Residential development - construction of 37 no. dwellinghouses and site development works for 8 no. dwellings
Permission · Cork County Council, 04/1928
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 Grillough.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grillough.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grillough.
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 Grillough, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Grillough.
- 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 Grillough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.
The townland
- Name
- Grillough · An Ghreallach
- Area
- 1,465,715 m² (146.57 ha, 362.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonfert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duhallow
- Electoral division
- Bawncross, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 358 people lived in 135 households in the Bawncross electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bawnmore North, Gardeen, Knockawillin, Knockfadda, Knoppoge, Lismire
- Placenames
- Grillough 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.