Greenan Beg

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenan Beg, from 149 m² to 25,930 m² (2.59 ha, 6.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Greenan Beg 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.

• 6 May 2026Conditional

  construction of extensions to the front and side of the existing house, changes to all elevations, decommission existing septic tank and replace with new domestic wastewater treatment system and percolation area to current EPA standards all ancillary site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2660380

• 4 Sept 2025Refused

  1. 2 No. 20ft shipping containers. To be kept on site for the duration of the construction phase; 2. temporary security fencing (Heras fencing) to be kept on site for the duration of the construction phase; Permission to 1. erect a single storey (147.30 sq.m floor area) machine store with a ridge height not exceeding 4.9m high; 2. erect 1.8m High Paladin perimeter fencing and entrance gates and perimeter hedgerow; 3. Bally Lusk stone driveway or similar approved stone; 4. and planning permission is also sought to remove condition number 2 granted under planning permission register reference number 21/961

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 25256

• 22 Nov 2023N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, new well, new entrance onto public road and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2360441

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  conversion of part of out buildings to a 2-bedroom apartment

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 221232

• 29 Apr 2022Conditional

  change of house type to that granted under planning ref 21/1233 and associate works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 22469

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system, provision of new entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 22164

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  dwelling, garage, well , effluent treatment system , removal of existing entrance, provision of new entrance and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 211233

• 4 Aug 2021Conditional

  construction of two holiday homes, connection to existing effluent unit, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 21961

• 25 Jun 2021N/a

  replacement of semi detached dwellings, which were demolished in 2017, with proposed extension to rear of each (two number) for use as holiday homes, and with connection to existing effluent treatment unit

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 21756

• 25 May 2021N/a

  to replace semi-detached disused dwellings which were demolished in 2017 and were adjacent to dwelling at Greenan Beg

  Permission, 2 homes · Wicklow County Council, 21610

• 11 Feb 2021N/a

  dwelling, garage, well, effluent treatment system, removal of 2 no. existing entrances, provision of new entrance / access driveway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21126

• 11 Feb 2021N/a

  dwelling and attached garage, well effluent treatment system, removal of 2 no. existing entrances, provision of a new entrance / access driveway and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21127

• 23 Jan 2020Conditional

  bungalow, detached domestic garage, effluent treatment system in accordance with EPA 2009 and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2051

• 23 Aug 2019Conditional

  sewage treatment system and percolation area

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 19930

• 15 Feb 2019Conditional

  single storey dwelling, new shared vehicular entrance to serve the proposed dwelling and an agricultural entrance beside it to serve the adjoining land and to install a new treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 19155

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 Greenan Beg.

Recorded monuments

• WI029-006002 Bridge
  Description

  Price (1945, 21) noted a reference to the bridge at Greenan as 'the bridge at Ballenecor' in 1596. The present bridge here has a plaque which reads 'Greenan Bridge, AD 1844, Samuel Evans Builder'. There is no trace of an earlier bridge. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 05 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 Greenan Beg, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Greenan Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Greenan Beg · An Grianáin Beag

Area

128,982 m² (12.9 ha, 31.87 acres)

Civil parish

Knockrath, and its townlands

Barony

Ballinacor North

Electoral division

Ballinderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

508 people lived in 176 households in the Ballinderry electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacor, Ballinatone Upper, Ballintombay Lower, Greenan More

Placenames

Greenan Beg 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.