Greaghnafarna

79 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghnafarna, from 707 m² to 178,654 m² (17.87 ha, 44.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Greaghnafarna 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.

• 17 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, with refurbishment works to the existing cottage and internal alterations, change of external finish from render to stone, and all ancillary site work

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2560404

• 11 Jul 2025N/a

  for the construction of 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, with refurbishment works to the existing cottage and internal alterations, change of external finish from render to stone, and all ancillary Site work

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560382

• 10 Jul 2025N/a

  for the construction of a 2 storey extension to the rear of the existing cottage, with refurbishment works to the existing cottage and internal alterations, change of external finish from render to stone, and all ancillary site work

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2560372

• 9 Jul 2024Conditional

  to demolish existing silage pit and construct in its place a five bay slatted shed with slurry holding tank underneath and all associated site works

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 2454

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  to (a) remove existing base constructed to ground floor level for dwelling previously approved under planning application ref. no. 08/1273, (b) permission is sought to construct a single storey dwelling and detached domestic garage, also to install proprietary sewage treatment unit, complete existing entrance already formed, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21187

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 Greaghnafarna.

Recorded monuments

• CV033-038 Enclosure
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghnafarna.

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

At the centre of the townland of Greaghnafarna, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Greaghnafarna with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Greaghnafarna · Gréach na Fearna

Area

2,148,065 m² (214.81 ha, 530.8 acres)

Civil parish

Killinkere, and its townlands

Barony

Loughtee Upper

Electoral division

Waterloo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

780 people lived in 273 households in the Waterloo electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carricknamaddoo, Coolnacola, Derryhum, Moylett, Termon

Placenames

Greaghnafarna 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.