Greyfield

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greyfield, from 53 m² to 277,971 m² (27.8 ha, 68.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Greyfield 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.

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  to (a) retain extension to existing dwelling house as constructed on site, (b) upgrade the wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, (c) upgrade existing vehicular entrance together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 2360272

• 14 Sept 2023N/a

  Planning Permission to (a) retain extension to existing dwelling house as constructed on site, (b) upgrade the wastewater treatment system on site consisting of an Effluent treatment unit and soil polishing filter on site, (c) upgrade existing vehicular entrance together with all ancillary site works and services at Greyfield, Culfadda, Co.Sligo.

  Retention · Sligo County Council, 2360246

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the construction of a 36 metre high multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound together with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20417

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Feenagh And Bunnamuck Loughs 001905

Recorded monuments

• SL039-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, at the S end of a drumlin. A circular area (int. diam. 22.5m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m). There is a gap (Wth 3m) in the bank at S. A field boundary skirts the bank along the N arc. The interior slopes down to E; the S portion is raised c. 2m to compensate somewhat for the hillslope. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL039-100 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on top of a drumlin. A raised circular area (int. diam. 29.6m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.1m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.9m) except along the E arc where it is truncated by a field boundary, reducing the E-W dimension of the interior to 18.6m. The entrance (Wth 2.6m) is at NW with remains of an external ramp (L 4.1m). The interior is level. A section of an earthen field boundary is built against the external face of the bank along the W arc. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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 Greyfield, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Greyfield with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Greyfield · An Leithcheathrú Riabhach

Area

817,862 m² (81.79 ha, 202.1 acres)

Civil parish

Drumrat, and its townlands

Barony

Corran

Electoral division

Toomour, the unit of the census

Census 2022

227 people lived in 95 households in the Toomour electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attiville, Carrowmaclenany, Cross, Feenaghmore, Feenaghroe, Finisklin, Kildarganmore, Kilnaharry, Knocklough, Knocknacroy, Knocknagore, Knocknawhishoge, Tunnagh

Placenames

Greyfield 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.