Greaghs
Greaghs is a townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.
Parcel 5233909
- Area
- 108,866 m² (10.89 ha, 26.9 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 340 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
- Greaghs
Planning applications on this parcel
20 Feb 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 13/50867 TO USE AS A DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE REFERRED TO AT POINT (1) WHICH IS ALSO PROPOSED TO BE SERVED BY A NEW PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950210
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 Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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
- 122.7 ha
- 303 acres
- Land parcels
- 64
- registered freehold, median 8,910 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghs, from 30 m² to 122,683 m² (12.27 ha, 30.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Greaghs 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
15 Jun 2026N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FOOTPRINT OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661091
8 Apr 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY FLOOR AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH FEEDING AREA AND CATTLE YARD WITH CATTLE CRUSH AND HOLDING TANK ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660593
3 Apr 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE BUILDING ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING UTILITY AND WATER SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560492
31 Oct 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461747
16 Oct 2024N/a
REPOSITIONING OF DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50793 AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461631
2 Jun 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350793
2 Dec 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251930
28 Sept 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251621
31 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DRY FLOOR SHEEP SHED AS AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150565
9 Mar 2021Conditional
DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION AT 1ST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150415
9 Mar 2021Conditional
DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION AT 1ST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150414
4 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051869
28 Oct 2020Conditional
DEVELOPMENT OF A TEMPORARY ROADWAY AND TEMPORARY VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD AND DEPOSIT OF LANDFILL MATERIAL TO FILL AND RAISE THE EXISTING GROUNDS LEVELS TO INCLUDE ASSOCIATED SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SILT TRAP AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051612
20 Feb 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 13/50867 TO USE AS A DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE REFERRED TO AT POINT (1) WHICH IS ALSO PROPOSED TO BE SERVED BY A NEW PACKAGED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950210
29 Jan 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A DRY FLOOR SHEEP SHED AS AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850100
19 Jun 2017N/a
ERECTION OF A DRY FLOOR SHEEP SHED AS AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750949
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 Greaghs.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greaghs.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghs.
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 Greaghs, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Greaghs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Greaghs
- Area
- 1,226,527 m² (122.65 ha, 303.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Laghy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 799 people lived in 290 households in the Laghy electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cormullin, Laghy, Trumman East
- Placenames
- Greaghs 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.