Granaghan Beg
Granaghan Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Greanachán Beag.
- Area
- 64.4 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,486 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granaghan Beg, from 112 m² to 109,581 m² (10.96 ha, 27.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Granaghan Beg 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
29 Apr 2022Conditional
to demolish an existing Industrial building and associated works on site and to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 22393
1 Nov 2021Conditional
to construct an entrance, dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211143
25 Jul 2019Conditional
to RETAIN the construction of lean- to extension to side of garage & extension to rear of garage to include roof area, boiler house, balcony and retention permission for alteration of position of treatment plant and percolation from that approved under P03-1728, including ancillary site works.
Retention · Clare County Council, 19606
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: Ballycar Lough 000015
Recorded monuments
- CL042-112 Ringfort - cashel
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Granaghan Beg.
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
- The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Granaghan Beg.
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Granaghan Beg.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Granaghan Beg · Greanachán Beag
- Area
- 644,032 m² (64.4 ha, 159.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tomfinlough, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Tomfinlough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 681 people lived in 233 households in the Tomfinlough electoral division. 92% of households owned 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, Caherscooby, Carrownakilly, Granaghan, Granaghan More, Langough, Mooghaun South
- Placenames
- Granaghan Beg 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.