Greaghglass
Townland in the civil parish of Oughteragh, barony of Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim; in Irish Gréach Shleasa
- Area
- 96.6 ha
- 239 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 15,159 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghglass, from 631 m² to 100,449 m² (10.04 ha, 24.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Greaghglass 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
No planning application touches the townland of Greaghglass 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.
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 Greaghglass.
Recorded monuments
- LE024-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on top of a prominent drumlin. This monument is not marked on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. A circular feature is visible as n aerial photographs (GSIAP: H 133-2). This is a grass-covered circular platform (diam. 25m) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m), with a field bank and outer ditch on the perimeter SW-N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
- LE024-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in a low-lying position with N-S streams c. 5-10m adjacent to N and E. This is a grass-covered subcircular area (int. dims 29.5m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.1m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.35m) with an external fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; D 0.35m). The entrance (Wth 4.5m) at ENE may be original. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghglass.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Greaghglass.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Greaghglass with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Greaghglass · Gréach Shleasa
- Area
- 965,987 m² (96.6 ha, 238.7 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oughteragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carrigallen
- Electoral division
- Greaghglass, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Corramartin, Derrinkeher (Raycroft), Drumbibe, Drumrackan, Greaghrevagh More Glebe, Kiltynashinnagh
- Placenames
- Greaghglass 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.