Greenmount

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenmount, from 1,923 m² to 117,929 m² (11.79 ha, 29.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Greenmount 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Greenmount 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 the townland of Greenmount.

Recorded monuments

• MO010-015 Ceremonial enclosure
  Description

  Located on a small hill at the NE end of a small NE-SW ridge, with a NE-SW section of a small stream c. 160m to the SE and a S-N section of the Cor River c. 370m to the W. The internal barrow is depicted as a small embanked feature (ext. diam. c. 20m) described as a ‘Moat’ in gothic lettering on the 1834 edition of the OS 6-inch map, and the enclosure as a hachured feature (diam. c. 50-55m) with an inner hachured feature on the 1907 edition. This is a domed subcircular and grass-covered area (dims 55m N-S; 48m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at SE: Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.8m) and hedge, and an outer fosse (Wth of base c. 1m; D 0.1-0.2m) visible W-N and but absent elsewhere. The surviving bank is generally lower than the top of the hill. There is a bowl-barrow (MO010-015001-) just NW of the centre. There are several entrances but that at SW might be original. The enclosure was overgrown in 1983 but the scrub had been cleared by 1995 (OSAP). Date of revised upload: 26 January 2018 Compiled by: Michael Moore

• MO010-015001 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  Located NW of the centre of the ceremonial enclosure (MO010-015----). This is a circular scrub-covered and steep-sided mound (diam. of base 13m; diam. of top 2m; H 2m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.4m) SE-SW and NW-NE with a causeway (Wth 2m) at W. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 26 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• Greenmount House, house, 1865–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house double-pile house on a square plan originally three- or five-bay two-storey single-pile on a rectangular plan. Hipped double-pile (M-profile) slate roof with clay ridge tiles, paired red brick Running bond central chimney stacks having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed stringcourses below capping, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Rendered, ruled and lined walls; rendered, ruled and lined battered walls (north). Segmental-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights below overlight. Square-headed central window opening (first floor) with sill, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one sash window. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one sash windows. Square-headed central door opening to rear (north) elevation in camber-headed recess with concealed dressings framing replacement timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with hedge boundary to perimeter centred on fluted cast-iron colonette piers supporting looped wrought iron gate.

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 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 Greenmount.

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

Name

Greenmount · An Grianán

Area

500,629 m² (50.06 ha, 123.71 acres)

Civil parish

Clontibret, and its townlands

Barony

Cremorne

Electoral division

Castleshane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleshane electoral division: 1,013 people in 332 households; 88% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castleshane Demesne, Clerran, Drumnahunshin, Kinard, Tiravray, Tirmacmoe, Tullycumasky

Placenames

Greenmount 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.