Greagh
Greagh is a townland in the civil parish of Drumsnat, barony of Monaghan, Co. Monaghan. Its name in Irish is An Ghréach.
Parcel 335979
- Area
- 65,056 m² (6.51 ha, 16.08 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 84 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
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 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.
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
- 98 ha
- 242 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 8,082 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greagh, from 308 m² to 91,564 m² (9.16 ha, 22.63 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
11 Jul 2023Conditional
permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s), and soiled water tank(s)) and ancillary site works (in lieu of 2 No. Poultry houses, ancillary structures and associated site works previously approved under planning reference No. 18/315, but not yet completed) associated with the above development. This application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency (Licensing) Regulations 1994 to 2013. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (E.I.A.R.) will be submitted with this planning application. Significant Further Information received relates to submission of site specific Flood risk assessment,
Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2360147
18 Nov 2022Conditional
permission to retain dwelling house, domestic garage and associated works as completed to that granted permission in planning ref. 86/667 and to exit on to public road by way of existing entrance
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 22490
2 Nov 2022N/a
retention permission consisting of dwelling house, domestic garage and associated works as completed to that granted permission in planning ref. 86/667 and to exist on to public road by way of existing entrance
Retention · Monaghan County Council, 22473
9 May 2019Conditional
permission to construct a single storey extension onto side of existing dormer dwelling house including elevational changes, internal alterations and associated site works.
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19209
6 Jul 2018Conditional
Permission to construct 2 no. poultry houses together with all ancillary structures (to include meal bin(s), and soiled water tank(s) and ancillary site works, this application relates to a development, which is for the purposes of an activity requiring a Licence under part IV of the Enviromental Protection Agency (Licensing ) Regulations 1994 to 2013
Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 18315
13 Jun 2017Conditional
Retention of elevational changes and roof to utility, internal alterations and relocation of a storey and a half dwelling, treatment unit, percolation area, entrance piers and walls, revised boundary as per previous planning ref P06/1139 and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17284
24 Apr 2017N/a
Retention of elevational changes and roof to utility, internal alterations and relocation of a storey and a half dwelling, treatment unit, percolation area, entrance piers and walls, revised boundary as per previous planning ref P06/1139 and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 17195
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
- MO013-025 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
Situated at the crest of a W-facing slope. A large upright stone (L 2.5m; T 0.1m at W to 0.3m at E; H 1-1.1m) oriented NE-SW forms the SE side of a chamber only represented by two small earthfast stones (dims 0.6m NW-SE; 0.4m NE-SW; H 0.7m: 0.8m NE-SW; x 0.1m; max. H 0.3m) 1.6m distant to the NW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 1 December 2016
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 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- 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
- 980,387 m² (98.04 ha, 242.26 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumsnat, and its townlands
- Barony
- Monaghan
- Electoral division
- Kilmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 508 people lived in 187 households in the Kilmore electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Blackraw, Corcaghan, Stranoodan, Tattintlieve
- 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.