Greetiagh
Greetiagh is a townland in the civil parish of Martry, barony of Navan Lower, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 4,341 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greetiagh, from 444 m² to 246,607 m² (24.66 ha, 60.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 58 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Dec 2025Conditional
1) to construct a single storied dwelling house and a detached domestic garage, 2) to install a proprietary waste water treatment unit and percolation area, 3) to make a new entrance onto the road including gates, walls and piers, 4) all ancillary site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561389
2 May 2024Conditional
proposed private residence, install proposed wastewater treatment system and percolation area, construct new entrance onto main road, including all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 24184
8 Jul 2022Conditional
development comprising a) the installation of a new gravel pedestrian walkway (circa. 275m length c. 2m wide) east - west linking with existing gravel walkway to the east and terminating at proposed new viewing platform at western end, b) the installation of a new 125m sq. viewing platform comprising timber surround and stone hardcore finish, for the purposes of providing close up viewpoint of existing raised turf bank and c) provision of bench seating at 2 locations along new walkway. Significant further inforamtion/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 22899
19 Dec 2018Conditional
retention of the following:- revised site boundaries, revised site layout, revised domestic garage and brick finish to external walls of existing dwelling & domestic garage to that previously granted under planning reference numbers 00/573 & 00/1981
Retention · Meath County Council, KA181529
6 Dec 2018N/a
retention of brick finish to external walls of existing dwelling & domestic garage and for revised site boundaries to that previously granted under planning reference 00/573
Retention · Meath County Council, KA181458
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Jamestown Bog NHA 001324
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greetiagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greetiagh.
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 Greetiagh, about 1 in 10 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greetiagh.
- 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 Greetiagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Greetiagh
- Area
- 919,792 m² (91.98 ha, 227.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Martry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Navan Lower
- Electoral division
- Martry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 792 people lived in 246 households in the Martry electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Durhamstown, Faughanhill, Herbertstown, Jordanstown, Ongenstown, Tullaghanstown
- Placenames
- Greetiagh 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.