Greagh
Greagh is a townland in the civil parish of Ballybay, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Ghréach.
Parcel 315141
- Area
- 26,854 m² (2.69 ha, 6.64 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 281 m².
- 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
- Greagh
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, detached garage, new site entrance to the public road with entrance piers and gates, proposed driveway, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17367
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 moderately high, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in 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
- 156.1 ha
- 386 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 11,143 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greagh, from 65 m² to 105,180 m² (10.52 ha, 25.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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
No zone of a development plan covers Greagh 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
20 Apr 2026N/a
permission for a development which will consist of a dormer style dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new vehicular entrance, provision of entrance piers, installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area together with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660146
7 Sept 2021Conditional
permission to construct a single storey dwelling house over basement garage, waste water treatment system and percolation area, use of existing agricultural entrance, boundary fencing and include all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21508
18 Jun 2020Conditional
permission for development consisting of 1) Demolition and replacement of the existing structure on the L-4210 ) Demolition of the existing structure on the L-4210 and construction of a replacement structure comprising of a pre-cast box culvert. Relocation of he L-4210/R180 junction to the south from its current location. Realignment of the L-4210 road from the proposed new junction location to a tie-in point approximately 300 metres east 4) Improvement of the visibility splay looking south along the R180 from the east approach of the L-4210 5) Improvement to the vertical alignment for a 180m section of the R180 (north of the R180/L4210 junction) 6) Relocation of the existing watermain along the L-4310 road. Temporary diversion of the existing watermain along the L-4210 road to facilitate the construction works 7) All associated site works. In accordance with Article 81(ca) and 120(1B)(b)(I) of the above-mentioned regulations, Monaghan County Council, as the competent authority, has concluded from a Screening Determination, based on an examination of the nature, size and location of the proposed development that there is no real likelihood of significant effects on the environment arising from the proposed development and as such has determined that an EIA is not required. The details of which are available to the general public. At any time before the expiration of 4 weeks from the date of publication of this notice, any person may apply to An Bord Pleanála for a screening determination as to whether the proposed development would be likely to have significant effects on the environment
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 208001
4 Oct 2019Conditional
permission to retain 1. new boundaries 2. new position of dwelling house, filter unit and percolation area 3. position of entrance on to public road. Previous planning ref 04/604
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19464
26 Oct 2017Conditional
Permission to (1). retain the demolition of existing habitable two storey dwelling house, existing foundation and concrete base of a two storey dwelling house and will consist of (2). permission to erect new two storey dwelling house, upgrade existing septic tank & percolation area on site with new wastewater treatment system & percolation area to serve new dwelling, use of existing entrance onto public road to serve the development and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17508
23 Aug 2017Conditional
The construction of a two storey dwelling house with detached single storey domestic garage, proprietary waste water treatment system and percolation area, new site entrance, complete with all ancillary works. Significant Further Information has been received which consists of alterations to the dwelling, re-positioning of the dwelling and garage on site with revisions to the site boundary
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17399
19 Jul 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a two storey dwelling house with single storey element, detached garage, new site entrance to the public road with entrance piers and gates, proposed driveway, wastewater treatment plant with percolation area and all associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17367
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 Greagh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greagh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greagh.
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 Greagh, about 1 in 20 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greagh.
- 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 Greagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Greagh · An Ghréach
- Area
- 1,560,963 m² (156.1 ha, 385.72 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballybay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Greagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 481 people lived in 170 households in the Greagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brackly, Carrickinare, Drumguillew Upper, Drumhawan, Drumlane, Lisduff, Tullynahinnera
- Placenames
- Greagh 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.