Granaghan More
Granaghan More is a townland in the civil parish of Tomfinlough, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Greanachán Mór.
- Area
- 136.8 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,776 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granaghan More, from 233 m² to 939,793 m² (93.98 ha, 232.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 More 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
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
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
12 Oct 2017Conditional
to construct a single dwelling house, advanced wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17782
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
- CL042-114 Castle - tower house
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 15 December 2014
- CL042-165 Standing stone
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 More.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Granaghan More, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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 More.
- 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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Granaghan More · Greanachán Mór
- Area
- 1,368,193 m² (136.82 ha, 338.09 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
- Caherscooby, Carrowmeer, Finlough, Granaghan, Granaghan Beg, Mausnarylaan, Muckanagh (Butler), Muckanagh (Studdert), Muckanagh (Vandeleur)
- Placenames
- Granaghan More 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.