# Greethill, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Monivea, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Cnocán Eibhir.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,013,919 m² (101.39 ha, 250.54 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 7,997 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Monivea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/monivea.md
- Barony: Athenry
- Electoral division: Greethill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,086 people lived in 326 households in the Greethill electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19888
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 62403
- Centre: latitude 53.271906, longitude -8.798078 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greethill, from 813 m² to 375,929 m² (37.59 ha, 92.89 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 2075741: 375,929 m² (37.59 ha, 92.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075741.md
- Parcel 2075745: 209,587 m² (20.96 ha, 51.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075745.md
- Parcel 2075739: 165,198 m² (16.52 ha, 40.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075739.md
- Parcel 2075746: 51,755 m² (5.18 ha, 12.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075746.md
- Parcel 2028037: 50,483 m² (5.05 ha, 12.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028037.md
- Parcel 2436601: 30,837 m² (3.08 ha, 7.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2436601.md
- Parcel 2028038: 23,677 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028038.md
- Parcel 4939717: 22,706 m² (2.27 ha, 5.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4939717.md
- Parcel 2028036: 22,389 m² (2.24 ha, 5.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028036.md
- Parcel 2075740: 15,769 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075740.md
- Parcel 5054292: 8,290 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5054292.md
- Parcel 2075744: 7,705 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075744.md
- Parcel 2028040: 6,111 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028040.md
- Parcel 5054295: 4,514 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5054295.md
- Parcel 2075743: 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075743.md
- Parcel 2028039: 3,623 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2028039.md
- Parcel 4683809: 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4683809.md
- Parcel 4933101: 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4933101.md
- Parcel 5884682: 2,092 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5884682.md
- Parcel 2075742: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2075742.md
- Parcel 2490736: 1,562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2490736.md
- Parcel 5885373: 813 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5885373.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Greethill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

2 applications, newest first.

- 19 Jul 2022, Galway County Council 2260733: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works 328.60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260733/0
- 27 Feb 2020, Galway County Council 20256: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. the changes to the dwelling house that was granted under planning permission 03/4045 and to retain the garage. Gross floor space of work to be retained 148sqm House, 24.5sqm Garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/20256/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Greethill.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA096-106: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-106----. On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (32m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a drystone wall best preserved at W; elsewhere it survives as a grassed-over stony bank. A gap (Wth 1m) at SW appears to be modern. A hay-shed has been constructed in the NW quadrant of the interior. (Cody 1989, 259-60, no. 84) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018
- GA096-107: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-107----. On a S-facing slope with pastureland to the N and scrub and rock outcrop to the S. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (26.5m E-W; 23m N-S) is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, now reduced to a grassed-over stony bank, which is overlain by a later field wall from N to E. The enclosing element is obscured at SW by a large concrete water tank and is breached by tractor gaps at W and NE. An opening (1m by 0.6m), the purpose of which is unclear, in the SW quadrant of the interior is filled with loose stones (Cody 1989, 258-9, no. 83). The interior is used as a cattle-feeding station. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018
- GA096-108: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA096-108----. On a hillock in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 41m) is defined by a drystone wall from N through E to S; it is obscured by overgrowth. A field wall cuts across the monument at N and S, and to the W of this no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives. (Cody 1989, 261-2, no. 85) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Greethill, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_796, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_796.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/greethill.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/greethill.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/greethill.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Greethill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Caherfinesker: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherfinesker.md
- Cloran: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloran.md
- Coldwood or Foorkill: https://everytownland.com/galway/coldwood-or-foorkill.md
- Derrydonnell More: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrydonnell-more.md
- Gortroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortroe-62345.md
- Moneyteige: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneyteige.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/greethill
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