Greaghawillin (Richey)
Townland in the civil parish of Magheracloone, barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan; in Irish Gréach an Mhuilinn (Richey)
- Area
- 53.2 ha
- 131 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 65,433 m² (6.54 ha, 16.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghawillin (Richey), from 1,020 m² to 101,780 m² (10.18 ha, 25.15 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 Greaghawillin (Richey) 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
27 Nov 2024N/a
permission for the construction of 3no. mushroom growing tunnels, an associated storage shed for packaging, plant and product, site boundaries, site entrance, hardstandings, underground wash water storage tank, drainage, and all associated site works.
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2460429
1 Jun 2022Conditional
permission consisting of the erection of a detached storey and a half dwelling with single storey elements, detached garage, new site access to the public road with entrance gates and piers, access lane, waste-water treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22247
1 Oct 2021Conditional
permission for (1) renovation and a two-storey extension of an existing dwelling (2) construction of a domestic garage (3) installation of an advanced waste water treatment system and percolation area (4) new entrance walls and piers and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 21551
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 Greaghawillin (Richey).
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greaghawillin (Richey).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghawillin (Richey).
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 Greaghawillin (Richey).
- 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 Greaghawillin (Richey) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Greaghawillin (Richey) · Gréach an Mhuilinn (Richey)
- Area
- 531,586 m² (53.16 ha, 131.36 acres)
- Civil parish
- Magheracloone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Farney
- Electoral division
- Drumcarrow, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornalaragh, Greaghawillin (Jackson), Lisdrumturk, Mullaghcroghery, Tirnadrola
- Placenames
- Greaghawillin (Richey) 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.