Greenan
Townland in the civil parish of Killann, barony of Bantry, Co. Wexford; in Irish An Grianán
- Area
- 128.1 ha
- 316 acres
- Land parcels
- 56
- registered freehold, median 10,083 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Greenan, from 122 m² to 152,377 m² (15.24 ha, 37.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Greenan 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
12 Mar 2024Granted (conditional)
Permission for retention of existing domestic garage as a change of design from
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20240269
11 Oct 2023Refused
Permission for retention of existing domestic garage as a change of design from
Retention, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20231211
18 Sept 2023N/a
Permission for retention of existing domestic garage as a change of design
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231109
27 Mar 2023Refused
Permission for retention of development which consists of a)
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230301
19 Sept 2022Granted (conditional)
A) Permission for retention of cubicle shed (B) Permission for retention
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221245
13 Sept 2022Refused
Permission for (a) retention of alterations to existing domestic garage from
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20221219
19 Jun 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING: (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A MILKING PARLOUR, DAIRY,
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170780
8 Apr 2016Granted (conditional)
(A) ERECTION OF A CONSERVATORY EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLIN
Permission · Wexford County Council, 20160354
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 Greenan.
Recorded monuments
- WX019-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated just off the crest of the N-facing slope of an E-W ridge. A curve in a field bank N-E-S (C c. 35m) might incorporate part of the bank, but it is otherwise not visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 22 May, 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Greenan.
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 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 Greenan.
- 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 Greenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.
The townland
- Name
- Greenan · An Grianán
- Area
- 1,280,550 m² (128.06 ha, 316.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killann, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bantry
- Electoral division
- Killann, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killann electoral division: 1,041 people in 385 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughathlappa, Ballinlug East, Ballybreen, Killann, Mangan
- Placenames
- Greenan 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.