Greaghnaslieve
Greaghnaslieve is a townland in the civil parish of Inishmagrath, barony of Drumahaire, Co. Leitrim. Its name in Irish is Gréach na Sliabh.
Parcel 620429
- Area
- 52,846 m² (5.28 ha, 13.06 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Greaghnaslieve
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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
- 180.1 ha
- 445 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 23,772 m² (2.38 ha, 5.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greaghnaslieve, from 2,779 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) to 215,955 m² (21.6 ha, 53.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Greaghnaslieve 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 Sept 2025N/a
(i) The decommissioning and removal from site of 2 no. existing wind turbines and associated ancillary infrastructure permitted pursuant to Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 95/12501; and (ii) the installation of 1 no. wind turbine with an overall tip height of 125 metres, turbine foundation, hardstanding area, underground electrical and communications cabling to the existing electrical switchroom, and all associated site development, access and reinstatement works. An Appropriate Assessment Screening Report will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560239
21 Jul 2025Conditional
revised design of the electricity substation permitted under Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 23/60047 to provide for (i) an alteration from a modular structure to a block-built structure; (ii) an increase in the overall footprint of the electricity substation from approximately 12.5 square metres to approximately 26 square metres; (iii) an increase in the height of the electricity substation from 3.35 metres to 3.96 metres; and, (iv) all associated site development works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2560190
19 Jul 2023Conditional
The installation of a modular medium-voltage electricity substation at the Spion Kop Wind Farm to be located adjacent to the existing electricity switchroom. The substation will contain electrical equipment and apparatus to facilitate the connection of the development permitted under Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 19/230 (An Bord Pleanála Reference ABP-307627-20) to the national electricity network. The proposed development also comprises ancillary underground electrical and communications cabling and associated site development and reinstatement works.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 2360047
7 Nov 2019Conditional
(a) decommissioning and removal from site of 2 no. existing wind turbines and associated ancillary infrastructure permitted pursuant to Leitrim County Council Planning Register Reference 95/12501; and (b) the erection of 1 no. wind turbine with an overall tip height of up to 125 metres, turbine foundation, hard-standing area, underground electrical cabling connecting to existing on -site switchroom, and all associated site development, access and reinstatement works
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 19230
13 Sept 2017N/a
extend existing quarry, approved by Substitute Consent (An Bord Pleanála Ref, SU12.SU0133 and Planning Authority Ref QR01 to develop an additional 5 hectares for extraction. An Environmental Impact Statement will be included in the application.
Permission · Leitrim County Council, 17166
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Corry Mountain Bog NHA 002321
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Greaghnaslieve.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greaghnaslieve.
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 Greaghnaslieve, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greaghnaslieve.
- 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 Greaghnaslieve with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Greaghnaslieve · Gréach na Sliabh
- Area
- 1,800,694 m² (180.07 ha, 444.96 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishmagrath, and its townlands
- Barony
- Drumahaire
- Electoral division
- St. Patrick's, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 131 people lived in 56 households in the St. Patrick's electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 13% of homes were built since 2001. 21% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altagowlan (Co. Roscommon), Curraghs North, Drummanfaughnan, Glackaunadarragh, Liscuillew Lower, Liscuillew Upper, Lugmore, Tullycorka, Tullyveame
- Placenames
- Greaghnaslieve 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.