Greenan

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenan, from 188 m² to 1,293,668 m² (129.37 ha, 319.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Greenan 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.

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION INCORPORATING A FLAT-ROOFED LINK TO THE GABLE OF THE EXISTING GATE COTTAGE TO INCLUDE THE RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE, ENCOMPASSING ROOF REPAIRS, BARGE BOARD RESTORATION, WINDOW REPLACEMENT, RENDER REPAIR, AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY UPGRADES AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A DEDICATED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH POLISHING FILTER, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561999

• 26 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/50976 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561468

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560941

• 14 May 2025N/a

  (1) PROVISION OF APPROXIMATELY 5.2KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE TO CONNECT THE TOWNAWILLY GROUP WATER SCHEME TO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY SCHEME AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE, (2) THE RE-LAYING OF EXISTING PIPELINE WITH APPROXIMATELY 1KM OF 150MM MAXIMUM DIAMETER PIPELINE AND (3) THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING TOWNAWILLY WATER TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560778

• 10 Oct 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351516

• 7 Jun 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250976

• 12 Apr 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150645

• 30 Aug 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751331

• 15 Jun 2017Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (1) CHANGES TO WINDOW OPENINGS (2) TIMBER BOARDING FINISH TO SOME FACADES AND (3) REPLACEMENT OF THE CONCRETE TILE ROOF WITH A METAL SHEET ROOF FINISH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750927

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

The National Parks and Wildlife Service did not answer.

Recorded monuments

• DG085-001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Caldragh' on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map and known as a children's burial ground. There are no surface features. The site is located in rough pasture sloping gently to the S towards Lough Eske. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG085-002 Hut site
  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.

• DG085-004 Clochan
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Ardnamona House, gate lodge, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge associated with Ardnamona House (see 40908504), built c. 1840, having later single-storey extension to the rear (north) having mono-pitched roof over. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof having clay ridge tiles, small central rendered chimneystack with terracotta pot over, and with decorative pierced timber bargeboards to gable ends (east and west). Moulded eaves course to the south elevation. Roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction with flush roughly dressed quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having smooth rendered reveals and stone sills; leaded/metal lattice window to west gable end having cut stone hoodmouldings over; bipartite timber casement windows to the south elevation. Square-headed door opening having timber sheeted door. Located to the west/north-west of Ardnamona House (see 40908504) and to the north-west of Donegal Town. Overlooks Lough Eske from the north-west. Attendant gateway adjacent to the west. Rubble stone estate boundary walls to the west and the east (see 40908511).

• Ardnamona House, house, 1830–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house on complex irregular-plan, built c. 1835 and altered c. 1880, comprising three-bay two-storey entrance block to then north-east corner having central gable-fronted single-bay projection with two-storey canted bay window, recessed bay adjacent to the south-east having open wrought- and cast-iron veranda/porch with decorative cast-iron column and pierced cast-iron spandrels; central single-bay gabled breakfront to the south-east elevation having open porch to the north-east side (see above) and single-storey timber conservatory/sunroom to the south-west; long multiple-bay return to the north-west having gabled breakfronts and two-storey box bay window, and with open Victorian arcade to the rear (north-east) with cast-iron columns and decorative spandrels. Later in use as a holiday home, now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roofs, hipped to porch and conservatory, having brick chimneystacks, wide overhanging timber eaves (in places) having timber brackets, timber bargeboards to gables, and some remaining sections of profiled cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat roof and decorative parapet with moulded coping and moulded brick cornice to canted window opening to north-east elevation, flat roof to first floor over open arcade to rear elevation of return. Roughcast rendered finish over rubble stone construction with flush ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Mainly square-headed window openings, some paired and in tripartite arrange, having stone sills and with variety of differing multiple-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Number of lancet window opening to main return at ground floor level having timber sliding sash windows. French doors and a number of spoked motifs to heads of number of windows to sunroom. Some timber casement windows to main return. Square-headed door opening to porch having paired glazed timber panelled doors with multiple-pane overlights. Interesting interior with decorative plaster ceiling cornices, wooden floors, timber panelling to walls, carved wooden staircase, ‘courting seat’ in sunroom, decorative cut stone fireplace to drawing room ( replica of seventeenth-century fireplace?), recessed alcove and cast-iron fireplace to dining room, and with exposed timber ceiling beams to return. Set well back from road in extensive mature wooded and landscaped grounds to the north/north-west corner of Lough Eske and to the north-east of Donegal Town. Courtyard to the rear (north-west) having complex of two outbuildings (see 40908505), garden to the south-west having glasshouse, gate lodges to the north-west (see 40808503) and to the south (see 40808510), and main gateway to the north-west (see 40808511). House approached by fountain located in grounds to rear (formerly in courtyard).

• Ardnamona House, outbuilding, 1830–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of two-storey outbuildings associated with Ardnamona House, built c. 1835 and c. 1880, comprising an attached four-bay two-storey outbuilding, c. 1835, with central segmental-headed carriage-arch to the north-west (adjoining house) and detached six-bay two-storey former outbuilding to the north-east , c. 1880, now converted to living accommodation with additions to the rear elevation (north-east). Pitched artificial and natural slate roofs to main building to the north-west; replacement natural slate roof to building to the north-east. Rubble stone walls, formerly rendered, having flush dressed ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners. Roughcast rendered finish to north-west elevation of outbuilding to the north-west. Square-headed window openings having stone sills, and with replacement timber multi-pane windows. Remaining timber sliding sash windows to the north-west elevation of outbuilding to the north-west. Square-headed doorways having timber doors and half-doors, some with multi-pane overlights and some with cut stone plinth blocks. Two integral segmental-headed carriage-arches to the centre of the outbuilding to the north-west having roughly dressed cut stone voussoirs and flush ashlar block-and-start surrounds; one carriage-arch forms entrance gateway to yard from the north-west. Buildings arranged around a courtyard to the rear of Ardnamona House. Single-storey outbuilding to the north-west of return of house having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed doorways with timber battened doors. South-east gable end of building extends above roof to form parapet attached to north-west end of return to Ardnamona House. Pointed-arched door opening to the south-east gable end, now blocked, having shell mosaic to surround. Garden adjacent to the west having single-storey glasshouse, c. 1880, with squared rubble stone walls, timber windows and with cast-iron ridge cresting. Set well back from road in extensive mature wooded and landscaped grounds to the north/north-west corner of Lough Eske and to the north-east of Donegal Town.

• Ardnamona House, summerhouse, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey former summerhouse or garden structure associated with Ardnamona House (see 40908504), erected c. 1880. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verge and chimneystack to one gable end. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Pointed-arched window opening having replacement timber window. Square-headed doorway with no door fittings. Located to the west of Ardnamona House. Set well back from road in extensive mature wooded and landscaped grounds to the north/north-west corner of Lough Eske and to the north-east of Donegal Town.

• Ardnamona House, pier/jetty, 1830–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Boat jetty/pier, erected c. 1840, associated with Ardnamona House (40908504). Projects into Lough Eske. Constructed of rubble stone. Located to the south-east of the main house and to the north end of Lough Eske.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, 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 Greenan.

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 Greenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Greenan · An Grianán

Area

5,985,286 m² (598.53 ha, 1,479 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Lough Eask, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 66 households in the Lough Eask electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altilow, Burns Mountain, Cornaveagh, Edergole, Eglish, Friary, Goladoo

Placenames

Greenan 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.