Greagh
Greagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilronan, barony of Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 77.6 ha
- 192 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 21,850 m² (2.19 ha, 5.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greagh, from 77 m² to 80,795 m² (8.08 ha, 19.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Greagh 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
28 Jan 2022Conditional
Permission to construct single storey dwelling house, provide mechanical effluent treatment unit and percolation area, provide new site entrance and access road including all ancillary site works necessary to complete the development at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2245
24 Sept 2019Conditional
for the demolition of an existing detached shed and the construction of a detached shed and the construction of a detached garage and utility room/store to the rear of dwelling in the townland of
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 19492
10 Sept 2019N/a
for the demolition of an existing detached shed and the construction of a detached garage and utility room/store to the rear of my dwelling at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19458
15 Aug 2019N/a
construction of an extension to the rear of dwellinghouse
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 19414
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 Greagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO002-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a N-S drumlin ridge overlooking Lough Allen, c. 1km to the E. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5-6.3m; int. H 0.1m generally to 0.5m at S; ext. H 0.6m generally to 1.3-1.6m E-S) E-SW and NW-NNE, and a scarp (at W: H 0.5m) elsewhere. There is a fosse (Wth of top 5-5.4m; D 0.1-0.5m) NW-SW which is truncated by a N-S field bank at W and re-cut as a drain SE-SW. The ramp entrance (Wth 4.5m) is at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greagh.
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 Greagh, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Greagh.
- 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 Greagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Greagh
- Area
- 775,520 m² (77.55 ha, 191.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilronan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boyle
- Electoral division
- Lough Allen, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardcollum, Cornagee, Glasdrumman, Knockadryan, Lurgan, Srabragan, Tawlaght
- Placenames
- Greagh 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.