Garryhill
Townland in the civil parish of Dunleckny, barony of Idrone East, Co. Carlow; in Irish An Gharbhchoill
- Area
- 162.9 ha
- 403 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 6,367 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garryhill, from 138 m² to 243,636 m² (24.36 ha, 60.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Garryhill 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
8 May 2023Conditional
The existing development comprises the retention of domestic car garage/store. Plus, all ancillary and associated works.
Retention, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 2360071
3 May 2023N/a
The existing development comprises the retention of domestic car garage/store. Plus, all ancillary and associated works.
Retention · Carlow County Council, 2360067
12 Aug 2022Conditional
Planning permission for a domestic garage, together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 22266
31 May 2021Conditional
Permission for development consisting of the construction of a single-storey detached domestic garage / garden equipment store with all associated landscaping, boundary treatments and site works necessary to facilitate the development
Permission, 3 homes · Carlow County Council, 21197
31 Oct 2019Conditional
the construction of an equestrian training centre including cross country all weather tracks and jumps, car parking and sign, small office/toilet facility with toilet connected to previously granted waste water treatment system, (as granted 17/152, 18/26) to be upgraded to facilitate the development and all associated site works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19433
20 Sept 2019N/a
the construction of an Equestrian Training Centre, including cross country all weather tracks and jumps , car parking and sign, a small office / toilet facility connected to previously granted waste water treatment system, (as granted 05/92) to be upgraded to facilitate the development and associated site development works
Permission · Carlow County Council, 19371
31 Jan 2019Conditional
for a dormer dwelling house, septic tank and percolation area, together with all associated site and landscaping works
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1923
5 Feb 2018Conditional
For a revised house location from that previously granted under PL17/152.
Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 1826
27 Nov 2017Conditional
Permission to construct a new milking parlour, holding yard, concrete aprons, entrance to yard and all associated works to our proposed farmyard area.
Permission · Carlow County Council, 17334
15 May 2017Conditional
Planning permission is sought from carlow county Council for the construction of a new single storey 205m2 dwelling, site entrance, on site waste water treatment system and a ll associated site works at Garryhill, Co.Carlow.
Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 17152
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 Garryhill.
Recorded monuments
- CW016-084 Castle - unclassified
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 According to local tradition, stood adjacent to Garryhill House. No definite visible traces. Wall of walled garden and part of S side of stable yard regarded as part of castle. Shape of garden suggests possible bawn. Date stone (TB 1690) incorporated in gateway to garden.
Architectural heritage
- Garryhill House, house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey over basement house, c. 1750, with central breakfront having stone doorcase approached by flight of steps and gable ends. Renovated, c. 1800, with openings remodelled. Extended. Interior retains original features including chimney pieces and staircase.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Garryhill.
- 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 Garryhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Carlow.
The townland
- Name
- Garryhill · An Gharbhchoill
- Area
- 1,629,126 m² (162.91 ha, 402.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunleckny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Idrone East
- Electoral division
- Garryhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Garryhill electoral division: 648 people in 217 households; 88% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballaghaderneen, Ballynakill, Booldurragh, Clonacur, Knockclonagad, Milltown, Mountpleasant, Raheenwood, Sheean
- Placenames
- Garryhill 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.