Greenhills

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhills, from 2,420 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres) to 172,472 m² (17.25 ha, 42.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Greenhills 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Greenhills in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Greenhills.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-085 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in rolling grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 49.2m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the inner bank survives at NE. A gap at S could be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA073-086 Country house
  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

• Greenhills House, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c.1780, with projecting stairs bay to middle of rear with catslide roof. Now derelict. Shallow hipped natural slate roof with pair of rendered chimneystacks to middle of ridge, render band at eaves level, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Parallel ashlar limestone quoins and rendered plinth to front elevation, and with roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation, two-over-two pane to upper floors of rear and gone or not visible elsewhere, with raised render reveals and tooled limestone sills. Eight-panel timber entrance door to front elevation, set into carved limestone doorcase, having ornate petal fanlight above, and Doric columns supporting open-bed pediment with carved stone frieze and reached by carved stone steps with rendered balustrade having flat stone copings. Two-storey rendered outbuildings to rear forming courtyard with bellcote to west of dwelling. Set away from road in open field, with coursed random rubble limestone wall to rear boundary and rendered wall to front.

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 moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greenhills.

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 Greenhills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Greenhills · Cnoc an Ghrínigh

Area

1,585,857 m² (158.59 ha, 391.87 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killaan electoral division: 572 people in 200 households; 89% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Carrowholla, Coppanagh, Dooghcloon, Moyarwood, Skehanagh North, Woodlawn

Placenames

Greenhills 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.