Garranelahan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranelahan, from 1,644 m² to 158,664 m² (15.87 ha, 39.21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Garranelahan 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.

• 10 Oct 2025Grant with conditions

  Permission to construct a new dwelling house and associated domestic garage, landscaping, drainage and new entrance in connection with the works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 25/6148

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  Construction of dwellinghouse, domestic garage and ancillary site works.

  Permission · Cork County Council, 19/7085

• 16 Sept 2016Conditional

  Development of a dwelling house, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 16/6306

• 24 Nov 2015Incompleted application

  Construct a storage shed for the purpose of storing vintage machinery

  Permission · Cork County Council, 15/6651

• 8 Mar 2010Conditional

  Dwellinghouse, garage and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4516

• 16 Feb 2010Incompleted application

  Construction of dwellinghouse, garage, treatment system and associated site works

  Permission · Cork County Council, 10/4306

• 13 Feb 2009Conditional

  Retention of partial change of use of building and associated lands permitted under Planning Reg. No. 99/3531 for warehouse (storage of lorries) to a waste facility involving dismantling and preparation of end-of-life vehicles for disposal to include ancillary retailing of used car parts

  Permission · Cork County Council, 09/4438

• 7 Mar 2008Conditional

  Retention of extension to warehouse for use as workshop/repair machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 08/5282

• 9 Aug 2007Refused

  Retention of extension to warehouse for use as workshop/repair machinery shed

  Permission · Cork County Council, 07/10188

• 10 Jun 2004Conditional

  Dwellinghouse and garage

  Permission · Cork County Council, 04/4184

• 18 Oct 2000New application

  Dwellinghouse

  Permission · Cork County Council, 00/6280

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 Garranelahan.

Recorded monuments

• CO109-052 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep S-facing slope. Circular area (45.5m N-S; 45.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.3m) WNW->WSW. Gap in bank to SE (Wth 5m). Bank levelled to W for 26m, where low earthen bank (H 0.7m), running E-W for 20m, extends c.4.5m into interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c.1840, now disused. Later lean-to extension to rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having sill band and roughcast render to first floor of front elevation. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and rendered reveals throughout, having two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to front elevation having glazed timber door. Set within own grounds along roadside within rendered enclosing walls, having square-profile gate piers.

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

At the centre of the townland of Garranelahan, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garranelahan.

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.

No address of the register names Garranelahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cork.

Name

Garranelahan · An Garrán Leathan

Area

542,198 m² (54.22 ha, 133.98 acres)

Civil parish

Desertserges, and its townlands

Barony

Carbery East (East Division)

Electoral division

Boulteen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

695 people lived in 237 households in the Boulteen electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghyohil Beg, Boulteen, Drombofinny, Knocknastooka, Lisnacunna, Maulnarouga North, Maulnarouga South

Placenames

Garranelahan 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.