Grangeford

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grangeford, from 48 m² to 309,759 m² (30.98 ha, 76.54 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 Grangeford 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.

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  Permission for new private dwelling with detached garage, private well, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area, new entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Carlow County Council, 21108

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a single storey extension to the side of existing single storey dwelling, alterations to existing external façade, new waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Carlow County Council, 19139

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Grangeford.

Recorded monuments

• CW008-032 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 Marked 'Site of' on 1837 'OS 6-inch' map. No visible trace. In front (E) yard of farm. Photograph in private possession shows portion of curving wall, possibly part of tower, prior to demolition. Wall appears to be insubstantial for defended structure.

• CW008-056 Enclosure
  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 Known locally as 'Rath'. Traces of bank, probably from W side of site. Location suggests a ringfort.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grangeford.

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 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 Grangeford.

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.

• Grangeford, Bennekerry7 sales

Name

Grangeford · An Ghráinseach

Area

1,438,463 m² (143.85 ha, 355.45 acres)

Civil parish

Grangeford, and its townlands

Barony

Carlow

Electoral division

Grangeford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grangeford electoral division: 589 people in 193 households; 69% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farranaphlure, Glenoge, Grangeford Old, Inchisland or Moatalusha, Moanalow, Rathnashannagh

Placenames

Grangeford 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.