# Greenhills, Co. Offaly: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballyburly, barony of Warrenstown, Co. Offaly; in Irish An Cnoc Glas.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,615,296 m² (161.53 ha, 399.15 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 12,094 m² (1.21 ha, 2.99 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballyburly, https://everytownland.com/offaly/parish/ballyburly.md
- Barony: Warrenstown
- Electoral division: Ballyburly, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,388 people lived in 478 households in the Ballyburly electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Offaly, https://everytownland.com/offaly.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/41598
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 180744
- Centre: latitude 53.374801, longitude -7.175416 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhills, from 23 m² to 474,501 m² (47.45 ha, 117.25 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 308242: 474,501 m² (47.45 ha, 117.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308242.md
- Parcel 294899: 129,409 m² (12.94 ha, 31.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/294899.md
- Parcel 5022991: 106,951 m² (10.7 ha, 26.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5022991.md
- Parcel 301369: 106,150 m² (10.61 ha, 26.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301369.md
- Parcel 299972: 102,633 m² (10.26 ha, 25.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299972.md
- Parcel 273671: 101,508 m² (10.15 ha, 25.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/273671.md
- Parcel 270933: 97,539 m² (9.75 ha, 24.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270933.md
- Parcel 276481: 83,449 m² (8.34 ha, 20.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/276481.md
- Parcel 289361: 56,136 m² (5.61 ha, 13.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289361.md
- Parcel 287866: 53,494 m² (5.35 ha, 13.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/287866.md
- Parcel 271557: 46,272 m² (4.63 ha, 11.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/271557.md
- Parcel 6063561: 36,619 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6063561.md
- Parcel 309285: 33,095 m² (3.31 ha, 8.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/309285.md
- Parcel 299127: 24,380 m² (2.44 ha, 6.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/299127.md
- Parcel 284032: 14,345 m² (1.43 ha, 3.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/284032.md
- Parcel 308350: 12,993 m² (1.3 ha, 3.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/308350.md
- Parcel 278833: 12,720 m² (1.27 ha, 3.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/278833.md
- Parcel 289305: 12,619 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289305.md
- Parcel 307719: 12,570 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/307719.md
- Parcel 289944: 11,619 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/289944.md
- Parcel 312415: 11,281 m² (1.13 ha, 2.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/312415.md
- Parcel 2494039: 9,900 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2494039.md
- Parcel 304365: 9,444 m² (0.94 ha, 2.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/304365.md
- Parcel 303844: 8,250 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/303844.md
- Parcel 313398: 6,216 m² (0.62 ha, 1.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/313398.md
- Parcel 302917: 6,069 m² (0.61 ha, 1.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/302917.md
- Parcel 270857: 6,035 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/270857.md
- Parcel 269877: 5,190 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/269877.md
- Parcel 2426737: 4,944 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2426737.md
- Parcel 5022988: 4,893 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5022988.md
- Parcel 301477: 4,515 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/301477.md
- Parcel 361112: 3,664 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/361112.md
- Parcel 314423: 2,398 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/314423.md
- Parcel 293831: 2,222 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/293831.md
- Parcel 298512: 1,183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/298512.md
- Parcel 279448: 564 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/279448.md
- Parcel 2427032: 222 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2427032.md
- Parcel 6063572: 23 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6063572.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Greenhills in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 20 Mar 2025, Offaly County Council 2560082: Conditional. Permission. Amendments to the development permitted under Offaly County Council Planning Register Reference 20/494 to: (i) revise the layout of the permitted development including solar array and inverter/transformer units; (ii) increase the height of the permitted solar array from 2.914 metres to up to 3.3 metres; (iii) provide for variable spacings between the solar array rows; (iv) provide for varying solar array tilt-angles; (v) alter the design of the electrical inverter/transformer units and reduce the number of electrical inverter/transformer units from 27 no. to 14 no.; (vi) revise the alignment of approximately 250 metres of existing on-site access tracks and construct approximately 7,500 metres of access track; (vii) relocate and redesign the permitted battery energy storage system compound including an increase in the compound footprint from approximately 3,850 square metres to approximately 10,100 square metres; (viii) alter the design of the battery energy storage system and increase the number of battery energy storage system and ancillary containers from 38 no. to 83 no.; (ix) alter Condition No. 6(b) to provide for the planting of screening vegetation at the end of the construction phase; (x) alter Condition No. 5(a) to provide for the decommissioning of the development no later than 40-years from the date of commissioning; and, (xi) all associated site development, drainage, access and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560082/0
- 20 Mar 2025, Offaly County Council 2560083: Conditional. Permission. Amendments to the development permitted under Offaly County Council Planning Register Reference 21/488 to: (i) revise the layout of the permitted development including solar array and inverter/transformer units; (ii) increase the height of the permitted solar array from 2.914 metres to up to 3.3 metres; (iii) provide for variable spacings between the solar array rows; (iv) provide for varying solar array tilt-angles; (v) alter the design of the electrical inverter/transformer units and reduce the number of electrical inverter/transformer units from 6 no. to 2 no.; (vi) construct approximately 1,600 metres of access tracks; (vii) alter Condition No. 5(b) to provide for the planting of screening vegetation at the end of the construction phase; (viii) alter Condition No. 4(a) to provide for the decommissioning of the development no later than 40-years from the date of commissioning; and, (ix) all associated site development, drainage, access and reinstatement works. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560083/0
- 6 Aug 2021, Offaly County Council 21488: Conditional. Permission. A 10 YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE PERMITTED SOLAR PV AND BATTERY STORAGE DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED AT SRAH, GREENHILLS AND WOOD, RHODE, CO. OFFALY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE: 20/494. THE EXTENSION WILL COMPRISE ADDITIONAL SOLAR PANELS ON GROUND-MOUNTED FRAMES, 6 SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL INVERTER/ TRANSFORMER UNITS, THE OMISSION OF THE SECURITY FENCING ALONG THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARIES SHARED WITH THE BOUNDARIES OF PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE: 20/494, ADDITIONAL BOUNDARY FENCING ALONG THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN BOUNDARIES, POLE MOUNTED CCTV CAMERAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS ON A 22.92HA SITE. THE OPERATIONAL LIFESPAN OF THE SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT WILL BE 35 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/21488/0
- 13 Oct 2020, Offaly County Council 20494: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. A 10-YEAR PERMISSION. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF: 1. A SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT ON A C.132 HA SITE CONSISTING OF SOLAR PANELS ON GROUND-MOUNTED FRAMES, 27 NO. SINGLE STOREY ELECTRICAL INVERTER/ TRANSFORMER UNITS, SECURITY FENCING, CCTV SYSTEM WITH POLE MOUNTED CAMERAS, UPGRADING OF EXISTING ACCESS, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS; 2. AN ENCLOSED BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM COMPOUND ON A C.0.385 HA LOCATED WITHIN THE SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT SITE CONSISTING OF 18 NO. BATTERY STORAGE UNITS (EACH WITH ASSOCIATED CONTAINERISED STEP UP TRANSFORMER), 1 NO. CONTAINERISED CONTROL ROOM AND 1 NO. CONTAINERISED SWITCH ROOM AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT WORKS; AND 3. A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND ADJACENT TO THE EXISTING ACCESS. THE OPERATIONAL LIFESPAN OF THE SOLAR PV DEVELOPMENT AND BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WILL BE 35 YEARS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) WILL ACCOMPANY THE PLANNING APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/20494/0
- 25 Jun 2019, Offaly County Council 19297: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/PERCOLATION AREA AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/OffalyCC/AppFileRefDetails/19297/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Greenhills.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenhills.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Greenhills House, stables, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 14904008, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=OF&regno=14904008. Range of former stables to Greenhills House, built c.1780. Greenhills House does not survive. Eight-bay two-storey former stables with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls with limestone eaves course. Diocletian window openings with cast-iron pivot windows and tooled limestone surrounds with keystone. Square-headed door openings with tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds. Two-storey outbuilding to north-west of former stables with pitched slate roof, coursed rubble walls and carriage arch openings. Additional single-storey outbuildings and farm buildings of former Greenhills House adjacent.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Greenhills, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greenhills.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/offaly/greenhills.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/offaly/greenhills.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/offaly/greenhills.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Greenhills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly: https://everytownland.com/offaly.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyburly: https://everytownland.com/offaly/ballyburly.md
- Dunville: https://everytownland.com/offaly/dunville.md
- Srah: https://everytownland.com/offaly/srah-181100.md
- Tooreen: https://everytownland.com/offaly/tooreen-181131.md
- Wood: https://everytownland.com/offaly/wood.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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