Grellagh

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grellagh, from 105 m² to 177,103 m² (17.71 ha, 43.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Grellagh 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.

• 16 Apr 2026Conditional

  Extension & Alterations to existing dwelling comprising (1) alterations to fenestration, external finishes & roof to all elevations, (2) alterations to existing floor plans, (3) single storey extension to rear of dwelling, (4) extension to first floor of dwelling, (5) demolition of existing rear sun room attachment (6) dormers to rear existing roof, (7) external store to RHS gable, and (8) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2660140

• 12 Sept 2023Conditional

  construction of new dwelling house with septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 2360242

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: Bunduff Lough and Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore SAC 000625
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Bunduff Lough And Machair/Trawalua/Mullaghmore 000625

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Grellagh.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1825. Single-storey flat-roofed extension c. 1990 to north (rear). Reed-thatched roof, raised scalloped ridge, squat painted smooth-rendered chimneystacks with stepped capping. Painted roughcast walling, straight channel-jointed quoins, smooth-rendered projecting plinth. Square-headed window openings, simple moulded render surrounds, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows c. 1990. Square-headed entrance door opening, simple moulded render surround, painted timber panelled and half-glazed door c. 1990. Small garden to south, low rubble stone boundary wall to road, farmyard to north, Donegal Bay further to north.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Grellagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Grellagh · An Ghreallach

Area

1,753,021 m² (175.3 ha, 433.18 acres)

Civil parish

Ahamlish, and its townlands

Barony

Carbury

Electoral division

Cliffony North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cliffony North electoral division: 1,000 people in 394 households; 79% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bunduff (Co. Leitrim), Castlegal, Cloodrevagh (Co. Leitrim), Derryduff (Co. Leitrim), Mullanyduff (Co. Leitrim), Tawly (Co. Leitrim)

Placenames

Grellagh 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.