Greenridge
Greenridge is a townland in the civil parish of St. John's, barony of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Its name in Irish is An tIomaire Glas.
- Area
- 57.5 ha
- 142 acres
- Land parcels
- 0
- registered freehold
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenridge. The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Greenridge 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Jan 2024Conditional
for a new agricultural entrance from the public road, extension of existing slatted cubicle shed to include cow cubicles, underground slatted slurry storage, robotic milking machines with clean area, dairy plant room, farm office and straw bedded area, relocation of milk bulk tank, clean water tank, meal bin, erection of new wall to existing silage pit, animal handling and drafting area, concrete yards, clean hardcore yards, farm road and ancillary works
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2410
29 Sept 2022Conditional
for a Solar Farm and Storage Park consisting of linear arrays of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels mounted on steel supported structures with associated cabling and ducting (including underground cable connection to the proposed on-site 110kV substation); 50 no. inverter substations, a storage park (including 55 no. containers with cells and 15 no. containers with PCS and inverters); perimeter fencing; 6 no. palisade double security gates; 3 no. temporary construction compound/material storage area; 2 no. steel storage containers; 25 no. turning bays, on-site pole mounted CCTV cameras (at 60 locations); and 2 no. temporary construction stage Moby Dick type wheel wash systems (with over ground settlement tank); and all associated ancillary development services and works, all to be provided within an application boundary of 112ha. Permission is sought for the proposed Solar Farm and Storage Park for a period of 10 years with an operational period of 40 years. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared for this development and submitted as part of the planning application
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 22644
16 Sept 2019Conditional
to change the proposed house type permitted under planning ref. 16/466
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19659
4 Sept 2019N/a
to change the proposed house type permitted under planning reference 16/466
Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 19631
5 Mar 2019Conditional
for construction of two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, foul effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 19129
20 Apr 2017Conditional
to erect a new two storey private residence, new combined access from existing roadway, new treatment plant and associated site works all located on lands
Permission, 1 home · Kilkenny County Council, 17251
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Greenridge.
Recorded monuments
- KK015-023001 Enclosure
Description
In rolling reclaimed grassland. Identified as a roughly circular cropmark (diam. c. 50m) on an aerial photograph (GSI S 447, 1973-7). This possible enclosure is not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 March 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenridge.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Greenridge, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2191 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Greenridge with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.
The townland
- Name
- Greenridge · An tIomaire Glas
- Area
- 574,845 m² (57.48 ha, 142.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. John's, and its townlands
- Barony
- Gowran
- Electoral division
- Kilkenny Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 18,603 people lived in 6,480 households in the Kilkenny Rural electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Archersrath, Brownstown, Cellarstown West, Sandfordscourt
- Placenames
- Greenridge 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.