Greenhills

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhills, from 23 m² to 474,501 m² (47.45 ha, 117.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Greenhills 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.

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  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)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560082

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  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)

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 2560083

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  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

  Permission · Offaly County Council, 21488

• 13 Oct 2020Conditional

  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

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 20494

• 25 Jun 2019Conditional

  THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK/PERCOLATION AREA AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Offaly County Council, 19297

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 Greenhills.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenhills.

Architectural heritage

• Greenhills House, stables, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Greenhills.

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 Greenhills with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Offaly.

Name

Greenhills · An Cnoc Glas

Area

1,615,296 m² (161.53 ha, 399.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyburly, and its townlands

Barony

Warrenstown

Electoral division

Ballyburly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyburly electoral division: 1,388 people in 478 households; 82% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyburly, Dunville, Srah, Tooreen, Wood

Placenames

Greenhills 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.