Granaghan
Townland in the civil parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Greanachán
- Area
- 52.3 ha
- 129 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 3,162 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granaghan, from 441 m² to 505,589 m² (50.56 ha, 124.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Ballycar Cluster, Clare · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
2 Jul 2026Conditional
to construct a rear porch to the existing house which is located close to protected structure ref RPS no. 640
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660424
19 Nov 2024Conditional
for (a) to refurbish and reroof and for a change of use of an existing outbuilding from storage use to accommodation use ancillary to the existing house, and to construct a new extension and (b) To refurbish and reroof an existing barn to include a roof mounted PV solar array, and to construct a new glass house and ESB switch room/ services building, all located close to a protected structure ref RPS no. 640.
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460574
30 Nov 2023Conditional
to remove an existing greenhouse superstructure and to construct a new greenhouse, restore and rebuild an existing outbuilding structure and to reroof in part , all located close to protected structure ref RPS no. 640.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360518
28 Nov 2023N/a
to remove an existing greenhouse superstructure and to construct a new greenhouse, restore and rebuild an existing outbuilding structure and to reroof in part , all located close to protected structure ref RPS no. 640.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360506
17 Aug 2023Conditional
to repair and reroof an existing outbuilding located close to protected structure (ref RPS no. 640)
Permission · Clare County Council, 2360318
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
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fin Lough (Clare) 001010
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Granaghan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Granaghan.
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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Granaghan.
- 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 Granaghan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Granaghan · Greanachán
- Area
- 523,251 m² (52.33 ha, 129.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomfinlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Tomfinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tomfinlough electoral division: 681 people in 233 households; 92% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycar, Granaghan Beg, Granaghan More, Muckanagh (Studdert)
- Placenames
- Granaghan 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.