Greenhill

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhill, from 444 m² to 89,930 m² (8.99 ha, 22.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Greenhill 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.

• 2 Aug 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351151

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351023

• 21 Jun 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350881

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED, INSTALL WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150662

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Horn Head and Rinclevan SAC 000147
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Horn Head And Rinclevan 000147

Recorded monuments

• DG025-010 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  This site is described as a 'cashel' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It now consists of a subcircular area measuring c. 36m N-S and c. 30m E-W bounded by a modern stone field wall. Presumably this follows the line of the cashel wall. Outside the field wall on the N is a grassed over bank, c. 1m wide, of loose stones which probably came from the cashel wall collapse. The interior of the enclosure is flat and grassed. It is sited in level pasture land. 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

• DG025-011 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The monument was first shown on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where it is named 'Calluragh Burial Ground', although on the pre-publication field map it is named 'Labby Dermot and Grania'. It is said to be known locally as 'Grania's Bed'. The monument, 2.5km SW of Dunfanaghy, lies c. 300m W of Port Lough. It stands on a gentle slope in a small area of pasture among furze-grown rocky hills. It is overlooked from the S by the low mountain ridge of Croaghaderry, and beyond this the steep slope of Muckish Mountain forms the skyline. The monument now appears as a grass-grown D-shaped mound up to lm high. Its straight side, aligned WNW-ESE, is 9.3m long. A stone wall runs alongside it here. The mound measures 3.8m NNE-SSW. It was originally larger, but, according to local information, the southern end was removed many years ago. The faces of four orthostats are exposed at the eastern side of the mound. One to the S leans outward and is 2.2m long and 0.7m high. A second, just N of this, is 0.2m high and at least 0.6m long. Inside the junction of these a third stone, 0.6m long, rises 0.1m above the first. The face of a fourth stone is exposed at the mound edge c. 0.5m beyond the others. It is 0.15m high and at least 0.3m long. Approximately 0.6m S of this a stone 0.6m long rises 0.1m above the top of the mound. It is uncertain whether this low stone is structural, and it is not hatched on the plan. Two orthostats, parallel to each other, protrude above the surface of the mound at the N. The northern one rises 0.9m above the top of the mound. The southern one, 0.5m to the S of this, rises 0.7m above the mound. Another orthostat, lm S of the western end of the last and at right angles to it, also protrudes from the top of the mound. This rises 0.35m clear of the mound. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) has recorded that stones were removed from the site for use in buildings and that decayed bones were unearthed here. The occurrence of large orthostats in the surviving portion of the mound indicates that the remains are those of some form of megalithic gallery, but it cannot be classified in its present state. It has been interpreted as a wedge tomb (Ó Nualláin 1983a). This interpretation suggests that the two stones at the N are the backstone of a gallery and an outer-wall stone, that the stone to the S of these is a sidestone, and that the stones exposed at the eastern edge of the mound represent outer-walling. However, the N-S orientation of such a structure leaves some doubt about this interpretation. Alternatively, it may be that the two stones at the N are closely spaced jambs in a N-S-aligned gallery. In such a scenario the stone (unhatched on plan) E of the southern of these may also prove to be a jamb. The name 'Calluragh Burial Ground' accorded the site on the OS 6-inch map indicates that it was used as a burial place for infants. This practice has been noted at a number of other megalithic tombs (Aldridge 1969). Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 20; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 6; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 42, 105; SMR 1987, 25:11; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 25:11. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002) Date of upload: 22 September 2008 Excavation licence number 01E0568 Testing was carried out in the townland of Greenhill, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal, on 5 July 2001 on the site of a proposed dwelling-house and percolation area. The site is south-east of a possible megalithic tomb, marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a burial-ground. Three machine-cut test-trenches were excavated. The underlying geology in the area consists of quartzite, a dolomitic marble and schist. Topsoil and sod was 0.2-0.3m in depth and consistently overlay a greyish brown silty subsoil with frequent inclusions of small to medium-sized stones. Testing in the field revealed nothing of archaeological significance. (Excavations Bulletin 2001) Declan Moore, Moore Archaeological and Environmental Services Ltd, 200 Dún na Coiribe

• DG025-025 Enclosure
  Description

  The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map records this 'Fort'. No trace of it is now visible. The site is a grassed-over, flat-topped, platform of rock, sub-circular on plan and measuring c. 20m N-S and c. 23m E-W. There are sharp falls to the N and E but lesser ones to the S and W. Sited in undulating pasture land. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenhill.

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 5 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 Greenhill.

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

Name

Greenhill

Area

673,107 m² (67.31 ha, 166.33 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunfanaghy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunfanaghy electoral division: 1,015 people in 376 households; 78% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 50% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corcreggan, Magheramenagh, Port, Roshin

Placenames

Greenhill 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.