Greaghlone

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghlone, from 124 m² to 148,458 m² (14.85 ha, 36.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Greaghlone 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  permission for revised house plans from those granted under current planning permission ref 23/65, together with all associated site development works on site

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2660216

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  planning permission for the construction of a 4 bay slatted shed to house cattle with roofed feeding area and ancillary works (i.e. concrete yards, gates and boundaries) all for agricultural purposes only in extension of existing farmyard, utilising existing farm road and public road entrance. Note: There is a listed Monument within 100 meters of the proposed development i.e. Ring Fort MO030-028.

  Permission · Monaghan County Council, 2560135

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  permission for development consisting of demolishing existing derelict dwelling and to construct a replacement part single storey part two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, new entrance and install a sewage treatment system with percolation areas together with all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 2365

• 2 Jul 2021N/a

  permission to erect a two storey style dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system / mounded polishing filter, new vehicular entrance, boundary fencing and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 21390

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  permission for a development consisting of re-construction, altering and converting existing out building to living accommodation and construct new single storey front link extension and side and rear extensions onto existing single storey detached dwelling, demolition of existing shed and associated site works. Significant further information relates to the installation of a new waste water treatment and percolation area.

  Permission, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 20573

• 18 Sept 2020Conditional

  Retention of widening of access lane and widening of entrance and associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20380

• 21 May 2020Conditional

  Permission to retain a single storey administration office and associated site development works

  Retention · Monaghan County Council, 20176

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  permission to retain a single storey extension onto rear and side of existing detached dwelling, alterations to internal layout and elevations, single storey detached garage, relocation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Monaghan County Council, 19204

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 Greaghlone.

Recorded monuments

• MO030-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Located on the summit of a broad NW-SE drumlin ridge overlooking Greaghlone or Beagh Lough, the S shore of which is c. 270m to the N. This is a circular grass-covered area (diam. 49m WNW-ESE; 47.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth of base 6-7m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.5m generally to 2.1m at N) and hedge, with a slight and rounded outer fosse, most visible (Wth of top 6.4m; ext. D 0.2m) W-NW. The entrance (Wth of base 2.8m) is at E. 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. Date of revision: 25 August 2017

• MO030-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low NW-SE rise in a fairly low-lying position between drumlins, but overlooking Greaghlone or Beagh Lough, the E shore of which is c. 225m to the W. It is depicted as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. c. 35m) on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘fort’, and as an arc of hachures SE-W on the 1907 edition. The perimeter could be incorporated into a field bank and hedge SE-W (Chord 31m), which is built on a scarp (at SW: H 1.65m). 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. Date of revision: 25 August 2017

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c.1800, with shallow gabled windbreak to front elevation, and having single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to west gable, now renovated and in use as accommodation, and two-bay single-storey outbuilding to west again. Recent two-storey extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered to windbreak. Square-headed window openings having timber sash windows, eight-over-eight pane to front elevation, and varied elsewhere, with fixed and pivoted widows to extension and to outbuildings. Square-headed door opening with timber half-door. Pitched slate roofs to adjoining outbuildings (to west), with stone end chimneystack, rubble stone walls with roughcast render, square-headed openings having timber windows, and timber battened door. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof, lime-washed rubble stone walls, square-headed openings and external staircase to east elevation. Evidence of former pitched-roof outbuilding against north gable. House set back from road with shallow front garden behind lime-rendered boundary walls having wrought-iron gate. Gable of outbuilding to east stands on roadside forming eastern boundary to front garden. Recent boundary wall and gate to yard east of outbuilding.

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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greaghlone.

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 Greaghlone with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Monaghan.

Name

Greaghlone · Gréach Luain

Area

1,817,353 m² (181.74 ha, 449.08 acres)

Civil parish

Magheracloone, and its townlands

Barony

Farney

Electoral division

Drumcarrow, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumcarrow electoral division: 515 people in 164 households; 90% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beagh, Comertagh, Corlea, Doagh, Lisagoan (Co. Cavan), Scalkill, Taghart North or Closnabraddan (Co. Cavan)

Placenames

Greaghlone 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.