Greenhill
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
Parcel 1357308
- Area
- 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it, 227 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Greenhill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 43.7 ha
- 108 acres
- Land parcels
- 49
- registered freehold, median 1,971 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
49 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhill, from 175 m² to 67,964 m² (6.8 ha, 16.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 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 Greenhill 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
3 Oct 2025Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550135
17 Feb 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560191
12 Aug 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY STYLE DWELLING, A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, IN LIEU OF PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PLANNING REF. NO. 19/51822
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461227
28 Aug 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351279
2 Feb 2021Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO ADJACENT DWELLING AND PROVISION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE ADJACENT DWELLING
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150138
28 Sept 2020Conditional
EXISTING GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF DORMER BUNGALOW, INCORPORATING A SUN ROOM, REARRANGEMENT OF FIRST FLOOR BEDROOMS & BATHROOM
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051379
18 Sept 2020N/a
EXISTING GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF DORMER BUNGALOW, INCORPORATING A SUN ROOM, REARRANGEMENT OF FIRST FLOOR BEDROOMS & BATHROOM
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051323
27 Aug 2020N/a
EXISTING GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO DORMER BUNGALOW, INCORPORTATING A SUN ROOM AND REARRAGEMENT OF FIRST FLOOR BEDROOMS AND BATHROOM
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051183
24 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051148
17 Aug 2020N/a
EXISTING GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO DORMER BUNGALOW, INCORPORTATING A SUN ROOM AND REARRAGEMENT OF FIRST FLOOR BEDROOMS AND BATHROOM
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051119
9 Jul 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN ON SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851054
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greenhill.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenhill.
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 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 Greenhill.
- 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 Greenhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Greenhill
- Area
- 436,582 m² (43.66 ha, 107.88 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bogay, Castlewray, Lanehead
- Placenames
- Greenhill 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.