Ballygreany
Ballygreany is a townland in the civil parish of Clontibret, barony of Cremorne, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is Bealach Gréine.
Parcel 334520
- Area
- 48,061 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 269 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
- Ballygreany
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Feb 2026Conditional
planning permission to construct a new single-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660054
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
- Ballygreany Mill, mill (water), 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of mill-related buildings, built c.1800, consisting of three-bay two-storey miller's house with single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east gable, and three-bay two-storey grain store, now vacant and in use as byre. Pitched roofs, slate to house and grain store, corrugated-iron to outbuilding, having some cast-iron rainwater goods. Polychrome brick chimneystacks to gable ends of house. Limewashed smooth rendered coursed rubble limestone and brick walls. House has square-headed timber windows and rendered brick sills, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, and square-headed doorway. Ground floor windows to rear has smaller windows and square-headed doorway. Grain store has segmental-headed doorway and recent sliding metal door in square-headed opening, and square-headed window openings, some with gauged-brick surrounds. Situated to west of river with mill pond to south.
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 5 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.
- 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.
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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
- 61.8 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 20,613 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygreany, from 2,357 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres) to 91,383 m² (9.14 ha, 22.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballygreany 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 Feb 2026Conditional
planning permission to construct a new single-storey dwelling, single-storey detached domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, new wastewater treatment system together with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660054
8 Aug 2023N/a
permission to construct a two-storey dwelling, detached single-storey domestic garage, new entrance with gates and piers, wastewater treatment system & all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 23169
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 Ballygreany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygreany.
Architectural heritage
- Ballygreany Mill, mill (water), 1790–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Complex of mill-related buildings, built c.1800, consisting of three-bay two-storey miller's house with single-bay single-storey outbuilding to east gable, and three-bay two-storey grain store, now vacant and in use as byre. Pitched roofs, slate to house and grain store, corrugated-iron to outbuilding, having some cast-iron rainwater goods. Polychrome brick chimneystacks to gable ends of house. Limewashed smooth rendered coursed rubble limestone and brick walls. House has square-headed timber windows and rendered brick sills, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to rear, and square-headed doorway. Ground floor windows to rear has smaller windows and square-headed doorway. Grain store has segmental-headed doorway and recent sliding metal door in square-headed opening, and square-headed window openings, some with gauged-brick surrounds. Situated to west of river with mill pond to south.
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 5 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, low (inferred).
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygreany.
- 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 Ballygreany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygreany · Bealach Gréine
- Area
- 618,421 m² (61.84 ha, 152.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clontibret, and its townlands
- Barony
- Cremorne
- Electoral division
- Clontibret, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 792 people lived in 263 households in the Clontibret electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bryanlitter, Carrickaderry, Crossaghy, Doosky, Fintully, Gallagh, Shanmullagh
- Placenames
- Ballygreany 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.