Garraun
Townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare
- Area
- 112 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 4,677 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraun, from 751 m² to 232,246 m² (23.22 ha, 57.39 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 Garraun 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
13 Aug 2025Conditional
to build a new house, garage, install a waste water treatment system, create a new entrance onto the public road and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25263
21 Feb 2024Conditional
to construct a slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460066
1 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20436
31 Jan 2019Conditional
to replace the existing substandard dwelling with a new dwelling, upgrade the existing waste water treatment system, improve the existing entrance onto the public road and all associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 1952
5 Jul 2017Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, a septic tank with percolation area and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17526
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 Garraun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garraun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garraun.
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 Garraun.
- 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 Garraun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Garraun
- Area
- 1,120,042 m² (112 ha, 276.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Ennistimon Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Corcomroe
- Electoral division
- Magherareagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Magherareagh electoral division: 317 people in 115 households; 94% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glen South, Knockdrummagh South, Lavarreen, Spaug, Woodmount
- Placenames
- Garraun 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.