Greyfort
Greyfort is a townland in the civil parish of Borrisokane, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary. Its name in Irish is An Lios Liath.
Parcel 531740
- Area
- 2,281 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 187 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
- Greyfort
Planning applications on this parcel
19 Nov 2021Conditional
1) for as constructed general purpose agricultural shed, 2) permission to demolish remaining elements/structure of existing dwelling, 3) full planning permission to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, upgrade works to existing entrance to achieve sightlines, install a packaged wastewater treatment system and raised soil filter/percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211687
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 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1444 (ZIP).
- 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
- 106.3 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 12,181 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greyfort, from 925 m² to 441,630 m² (44.16 ha, 109.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Greyfort 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
19 Nov 2021Conditional
1) for as constructed general purpose agricultural shed, 2) permission to demolish remaining elements/structure of existing dwelling, 3) full planning permission to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, upgrade works to existing entrance to achieve sightlines, install a packaged wastewater treatment system and raised soil filter/percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211687
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 Greyfort.
Recorded monuments
- TN010-114 Moated site
Description
Cropmark of square-shaped area (dims. c. 26m N-S x 26m E-W) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 16/04/2020. Area annotated 'Lisleighmore' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 14 January 2022
- TN010-115 Earthwork
Description
Partial cropmark of semi-circular shaped area (diam. c. 50m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 25/03/2017. Area annotated 'Lisleighmore' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 16 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greyfort.
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 Greyfort, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1445 (ZIP).
- 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 Greyfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Greyfort · An Lios Liath
- Area
- 1,062,638 m² (106.26 ha, 262.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Borrisokane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Borrisokane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,471 people lived in 554 households in the Borrisokane electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhaden, Ballyrourke, Clarkill, Curragh, Killavalla, Liskinlahan, Lisleighbeg, Shesheraghmore
- Placenames
- Greyfort 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.