Greenfield

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenfield, from 83 m² to 101,772 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Greenfield 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.

• 12 May 2021Conditional

  RENOVATION OF DERELICT FORMER APPLE STORE FOR PROVISION OF TOILET FACILITIES AND CANTEEN FOR THE COMMUNITY GARDEN AND ALLOTMENTS AT CONVOY HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND WATER SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150904

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF 2 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851104

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 Greenfield.

Recorded monuments

• DG069-017001 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Built into the main gate-lodge of Convoy House (DG069-017003-) are a number of 'primitive carved faces, coats-of-arms and date-stones' (DG069-017002-). These apparently belong to the 17th century house (DG069-017-), of the Montgomery family, which no longer survives (Rowan 1979, 214). 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

• DG069-017002 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Built into the main gate-lodge of Convoy House (DG069-017003-) are a number of 'primitive carved faces, coats-of-arms and date-stones'. These apparently belong to the 17th century house (DG069-017-), of the Montgomery family, which no longer survives (Rowan 1979, 214). 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

• DG069-017003 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  Built into the main gate-lodge of Convoy House (DG069-017003-) are a number of 'primitive carved faces, coats-of-arms and date-stones'. These apparently belong to the 17th century house, of the Montgomery family, which no longer survives (Rowan 1979, 214). 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

Architectural heritage

• Convoy House, country house, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay two-storey over basement (to rear) county house, built c. 1806-7, having full-height three-bay shallow bowed projections to either end of the main elevation (west) and with remains of single-bay single-storey structure to the centre of the rear elevation (west). Damaged by fire to interior in 1971 and re-roofed c. 1990. Hipped slate roof (added c. 1990), having central valley, wide overhanging eaves with projecting sandstone eaves course with paired cut stone brackets/modillions, some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two rendered chimneystacks. Curved sections of roof over shallow bowed projections to front elevation. Irregularly coursed and squared rubble stone walls with flush quoins to the corners; projecting cut stone stringcourse/plinth course at ground floor level. Square-headed window openings with flush red brick block-and-start surrounds, cut stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level and three-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level. Continuous cut stone sill course to main elevation at first floor level and cut stone entablatures supported on cut stone console brackets to ground floor window openings. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation with timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to rear and side elevations at basement level having rubble stone voussoirs over and with wrought-iron security bars. Central square-headed doorway to main elevation having plain ashlar surround, replacement timber door, plain overlight; square-headed window openings to either side of doorway having plain cut stone surrounds and timber sliding sash windows. Doorway reached up flight of cut stone steps giving access to raised cut stone platform; steps and platform flanked by wrought-iron railings. Set well back from road in extensive mature wooded and parkland grounds a short distance to the west/south-west of Convoy. Deale River flows west to east to the south of the house and demesne. Main entrance gates with castellated gateway and lodge (see 40832003) to the north at start of long approach avenue to house. Remains of extensive complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (east) and to the north-east having rubble stone walls, pitched and barrel-shaped slate and corrugated-metal roofs, and square-headed openings. Remains of former horse-powered churning mill to one of the outbuildings. Possible former chapel to the east, now ruinous. Walled garden (on rectangular-plan with bowed wall to the north) to the east having rubble stone boundary walls and integral round-headed doorways with roughly dressed voussoirs and surrounds, remains of rubble stone outbuildings/former greenhouses to the interior of walled garden. Possible remains of former icehouse to the north (not viewed). Site of former house to the north-east.

• Convoy House, gate lodge, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Castellated entrance gateway and ruinous gate lodge serving Convoy House (see 40832001), built c. 1810, comprising a central Tudor-arched integral carriage-arch having castellated parapet over and with engaged castellated turrets/towers (on circular-plan) to either side (east and west); gateway flanked to either side by curved sections of castellated quadrant walling, terminated to either side (east and west) by engaged castellated turrets/towers (on circular-plan); two-stage tower (on square-plan) to the east end having bartizans set on corbelled bases to the corners at parapet level, one castellated (north-east corner). Machicolated parapets with cut stone corbels to tower; perforated cut stone disk (on circular-plan) to the front face of tower at parapet level; cut stone stringcourse to tower differentiating stages. Rubble stone construction with evidence of roughcast rendered finish over in places. Pointed-arch window openings to tower at first stage level to the north and the east elevations having rubble stone voussoirs with inset keystone detail to heads. Loop hole openings/blind loop hole openings to towers. Tudor-arched carriage-arch to the central gateway having rubble stone voussoirs, and with cut stone keystone having incised coat-of-arms, date '1693' and incised monogram 'RM'; gates now gone. Integral pointed-arched pedestrian entrance to the east face of tower having rubble stone voussoirs, cut stone keystone (on triangular-plan) and with remains of cast-iron gate; pedestrian gateway flanked to either side (east and west) to the north elevation by engaged single-stage towers (on square-plan) having castellated parapets over. Square-headed doorway to the west face of two-stage tower at second stage level (fittings now gone) accessed curved flight of cut stone steps to the rear of curtain wall having rubble stone boundary wall to the south terminated at the base to the west by rubble stone gate pier (on circular-plan). Projecting cut stones to south elevation of tower at second stage level give access to parapet level. Architectural fragments to site (DG069-017002-; including keystone to main gateway), apparently from former seventeenth-century house located to rear of the site of the present Convoy House, built into wall(s) of site. Now ruinous three-bay single-storey former gate lodge to the east, built c. 1810, having remains of hipped natural slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods, roughcast rendered walls over rubble stone construction, square-headed window openings (now infilled with modern blockwork) having stone sills, and with central square-headed doorway to the south elevation (now infilled with modern blockwork). Located adjacent to road way to the north of Convoy House (see 40832001) and a short distance to the west of the centre of Convoy. Located at start of long approach avenue to main house.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1792 (ZIP).

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

Name

Greenfield

Area

237,448 m² (23.74 ha, 58.67 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Convoy Townparks, Findrum, Glasly, Milltown

Placenames

Greenfield 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.