Greenhall Lower

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenhall Lower, from 556 m² to 118,039 m² (11.8 ha, 29.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Greenhall Lower 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.

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  the demolition of the existing extension to the rear and attached garage, and the construction of a single storey extensions to the rear, South-East and North-West side of the existing dwelling. The development will also consist of amendments to the existing fenestration, the construction of a domestic garage, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and percolation area and the installation of a new septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 2460162

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  (A) existing dormer bungalow type dwelling house (B) retention of existing garage type structure that services the above mentioned dwelling house entrance/boundary fence wall as currently constructed and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22151

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Fortwilliam Turlough SAC 000448
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fortwilliam Turlough 000448

Recorded monuments

• LF021-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low but prominent NW-SE ridge in pasture. A raised oval area (35.9m NNW-SSE; 28.2m ENE-WSW) enclosed by a poorly preserved low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2m; H 0.1-0.4m) that has been modified and incorporated into a field boundary from ENE-S-NNE. There is no trace of a fosse and the original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, having projecting flat-roofed single-bay porch (added c. 1930) offset close to centre of front elevation (southeast). Single-storey outbuilding attached to northeast gable end. Pitched slate roof with two rendered chimneystacks and having cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sliding sash windows having tooled limestone sills and cement rendered reveals. Square-headed door opening to southwest face of porch having timber battened door. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to northeast gable end having pitched corrugated-metal roof and roughcast rendered finish over rubble limestone masonry construction. Set slightly back from road at a right-angle to the road alignment. Garden/yard to front (southeast). Rendered boundary walls to road-frontage to the southwest. Gateway to the southwest comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron flat bar gate. Stile located in boundary wall to the northwest side of gateway. Gateway to the northeast of house, giving access to yard containing outbuilding, comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Located to the southeast of Lanesborough.

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 Greenhall Lower, about 1 in 5 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

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

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 Greenhall Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Greenhall Lower · An Halla Glas Íochtarach

Area

411,917 m² (41.19 ha, 101.79 acres)

Civil parish

Cashel, and its townlands

Barony

Rathcline

Electoral division

Cashel West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

651 people lived in 238 households in the Cashel West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmoran, Carrowdunican, Cashelbeg, Commons, Fortwilliam, Greenhall Upper

Placenames

Greenhall Lower 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.