Greyfort
Townland in the civil parish of Borrisokane, barony of Ormond Lower, Co. Tipperary; in Irish An Lios Liath
- Area
- 106.3 ha
- 263 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 12,181 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greyfort, from 925 m² to 441,630 m² (44.16 ha, 109.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Greyfort 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
19 Nov 2021Conditional
1) for as constructed general purpose agricultural shed, 2) permission to demolish remaining elements/structure of existing dwelling, 3) full planning permission to construct a part single storey, part two storey dwelling, upgrade works to existing entrance to achieve sightlines, install a packaged wastewater treatment system and raised soil filter/percolation area and carry out all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Tipperary County Council, 211687
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 Greyfort.
Recorded monuments
- TN010-114 Moated site
Description
Cropmark of square-shaped area (dims. c. 26m N-S x 26m E-W) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 16/04/2020. Area annotated 'Lisleighmore' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 14 January 2022
- TN010-115 Earthwork
Description
Partial cropmark of semi-circular shaped area (diam. c. 50m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 25/03/2017. Area annotated 'Lisleighmore' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 16 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greyfort.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1445 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Greyfort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Tipperary.
The townland
- Name
- Greyfort · An Lios Liath
- Area
- 1,062,638 m² (106.26 ha, 262.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Borrisokane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Electoral division
- Borrisokane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Borrisokane electoral division: 1,471 people in 554 households; 63% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhaden, Ballyrourke, Clarkill, Curragh, Killavalla, Liskinlahan, Lisleighbeg, Shesheraghmore
- Placenames
- Greyfort 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.