Greyford

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greyford, from 179 m² to 332,800 m² (33.28 ha, 82.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Greyford 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.

• 14 Apr 2026Conditional

  to construct new stables/hay shed, horse arena and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660561

• 27 Mar 2026Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and on-site sewage treatment system and retention of on-site mobile home for temporary occupation during the build. Mobile home to be removed upon completion of new dwelling, all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660469

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  and completion of two horse stables, retention of widening of existing quarry access roadway and permission for a manure pit and effluent tank

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561605

• 21 Oct 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict dwelling house and sheds and to construct a new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 361.1 sqm(H), 96.6 sqm (G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461394

• 8 Aug 2019Refused

  consisting of the infilling of part of a disused quarry with inert material (construction and demolition waste, sub-soil etc.) and the restoration of the lands for future agricultural use

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191246

• 24 Aug 2018Conditional

  consisting of the demolition of the existing house and construction of a new 2 storey dwelling with garage and wastewater treatment system plus associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works, 286sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition works, 146sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181212

• 13 Jun 2018N/a

  for construction of an extension to existing 2 storey dwelling with garage and new wastewater treatment system plus associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 286 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition 39 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18797

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 Greyford.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-107 Ringfort - cashel
  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

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Greyford · An Caithrín Liath

Area

1,484,063 m² (148.41 ha, 366.72 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltullagh electoral division: 827 people in 264 households; 89% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brusk, Caherakilleen, Cahernalee, Curragh Beg, Curragh More, Kiltullagh North, Kiltullagh South, Raherneen

Placenames

Greyford 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.