Greenaun

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenaun, from 126 m² to 358,293 m² (35.83 ha, 88.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 42 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 Greenaun 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.

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the extension and renovation of a derelict dwelling house, the installation of a proprietary wastewater treatment system, construction of a domestic garage and all associated site development works at Greenaun, Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560931

• 30 Nov 2023Conditional

  retain the extensions to the front, rear and side of the existing dwelling house along with all associated services

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23635

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  Extension and renovation to an existing dwelling, upgrade of existing treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21295

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 Greenaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenaun.

Architectural heritage

• Glensaul National School, school, 1840–1898 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey single-cell national school, extant 1898. Disused, 1952. Closed, 1974. Pitched slate roof on timber construction with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles terminating in rendered chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pot, and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with concrete or cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows with timber casement windows to side (north-east) elevation. Square-headed door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door. Set in unkempt grounds with roughcast boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-covered concrete coping.

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 high, 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 Greenaun.

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 Greenaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Greenaun · An Grianán

Area

2,235,986 m² (223.6 ha, 552.52 acres)

Civil parish

Ballinrobe, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Ballinchalla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinchalla electoral division: 235 people in 96 households; 84% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Churchfield Upper, Garranagerra, Gortmore, Lettereeneen, Tonaglanna, Trean

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Greenaun 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.