Greenane
Greenane is a townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Grianán.
- Area
- 95.9 ha
- 237 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenane, from 187 m² to 254,255 m² (25.43 ha, 62.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Greenane 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
19 Apr 2024Conditional
the development that will comprise the construction of a livestock underpass including underground effluent storage tank and all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460363
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 Greenane.
Recorded monuments
- LI014-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated on a gentle NE-facing slope in flat, poorly-drained pasture, with good views in all directions. The monument is obscured by dense scrub vegetation but is evident as a roughly circular area (diam. 19m NW-SE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 4.5m; H 1.5m) with an external fosse (Wth 6.2m) and an external counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.5-0.8m; Wth 1.5-3.7m; ext. H 0.3m) of earth-and-stone. The interior is uneven and slopes down from the centre in all directions. A sub-oval depression in the centre (4m NE-SW; 3.5m N-S; D 0.8m) is partially obscured by scrub. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 25 June 2013
- LI014-085 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated in poorly-drained, gently rolling pasture with good views in all directions. The monument is evident as a roughly circular area (15.4m NE-SW; 14.6m NW-SE) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 1m; ext. H 1.1m) which dips in the S (Wth 12m), with an external fosse from NNE to NW (Wth 4.6m), and an external earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; Wth 1.2m; ext. H 0.3m) evident from NNE to E and from SE to SW and from WSW to NW. The interior and the enclosing element have been heavily poached by cattle. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 25 June 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenane.
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 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 moderately low, low, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greenane.
- 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 Greenane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Greenane · An Grianán
- Area
- 958,671 m² (95.87 ha, 236.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Kilmurry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boskill, Castle-Erkin North, Garryduff, Gortbrien, Lombardstown, Templemichael
- Placenames
- Greenane 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.