Garvanagh

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garvanagh, from 123 m² to 275,456 m² (27.55 ha, 68.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Garvanagh 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.

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460429

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050597

• 14 Apr 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050486

• 11 Jun 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950873

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carricknahorna Lough And Lough Gorman 002068

Recorded monuments

• DG103-025 Enclosure
  Description

  Internal diam. 9.5m. A small subcircular area enclosed by a grass-grown stone wall but truncated by a field fence along its W side. The wall survives to a height of .5m and a gap to the W is probably the entrance. It is situated on the NE slopes of Garvanagh Hill and surrounded by marshy rough pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Attached image: DG103-025----_01.JPG viewed from N Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG103-071 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on the level top of a limestone ridge, located 10m S of the N edge of the ridge where a steep slope drops into a flat-based valley of marshy ground. Subcircular area (int. diam. 10.4m N–S; 10.5m E–W) defined by a ruined stone bank/wall. The enclosure is located on a gently N-sloping terrace, and is built up higher on the N side to compensate for the slope and create a level interior. The enclosing wall on the N half consists of a broadly slumped scarp (Wth slope 1m; ext. H 0.7-0.8m) topped with a low stony bank (Wth 1m; int. H 0.1m), almost flush with interior ground level. On the S half, the enclosing stone bank is evident as a slight rise (Wth c. 1-2m) which has a clearly defined inner scarp (int. H 0.4m) but is almost flush with exterior ground level on its outer edge. There is a gap (Wth 1.4m) in the enclosing stone bank at E. At NW a subrectangular depression (2.5m E–W; 2-2.2m N–S; D 0.8m), with large stones exposed on its S side, cuts across the enclosing stone bank, and extends into the interior. This appears to be the result of relatively recent quarrying. A similar enclosure (DG017-025----) is located c. 165m to SW. Attached images: DG103-071----_01.JPG viewed from SW DG103-071----_01.JPG viewed from N Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2015

• DG103-075 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, broken by seams of karst outcropping. Immediately to N, the ground shelves down into an E–W stream valley, overlooked on the N side by a high ridge. There are ruined vernacular farm buildings in the adjoining field to W. This enclosure is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a broadly oval area (c. 25m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by a low-profile bank (Wth 2-2.5m; H 0.3m). It is not clear whether the enclosing bank is earthen or has a stony core. It can be traced at WSW-NE as a very low, grass-covered rise. It is incorporated at NE-SE into a later field wall, now reduced to a jumble of stones. At SSE-SSW the outline of the enclosure is barely discernible, and here, along or just inside the original line of the enclosing bank, there is an area (c. 3.5-4m E-W) of disturbance where a seam of limestone bedrock has been quarried out. The interior of the enclosure is level and not noticeably raised above exterior ground level. Attached image: DG103-075----_01.JPG yellow arrows indicated curve of enclosing bank/wall at NW-E, viewed from E. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2015

• DG103-076 Hut site
  Description

  In a pasture field, located adjacent to an E-W field wall bordering the N side of the field. Immediately to N of the field wall, the ground shelves down into an E-W stream valley. This feature is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a circular area (diam. 6m) defined by a stone bank/wall (Wth 1m; H 0.3m). The stone bank is evident as a low, sod-covered rise, most clearly defined on the E half of the feature. No stones are visible but they can be felt beneath the sod cover. There is a gap (Wth 1.4m) in the enclosing bank at N, facing the natural slope which drops into the stream valley. The interior appears slightly sunken relative to exterior ground level. The remains of this feature are poorly preserved and its function is unclear. It may be a hut site but it is also possible that it is a relatively late feature, such as an animal pen, associated with a ruined vernacular farmstead located 40m to E. There is an enclosure (DG103-075----) located c. 80m to E. Attached images: DG103-076----_01.JPG viewed from SE DG103-076----_01.JPG viewed from W Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 May 2015

• DG104-013 Enclosure
  Description

  Located on a broad ridge top, in rough pasture broken by E–W seams of limestone outcropping. Immediately to S, the ground dips gently into a narrow, shallow E-W valley of wet ground. Oval enclosure (diam. c. 30.5m N–S; c. 26m E–W) defined by remnants of a stone bank /wall. The stone bank appears as a very low-profile, grass- and moss-covered rise (Wth 1.4-c. 2m; H 0.3-0.4m) from which occasional stones protrude. It is most clearly traced at N–NE and at SE-SW; elsewhere, it is barely discernible as a slight rise or cropmark of moss or low juniper scrub, and at SW-NW it is almost entirely levelled. The interior has a rough, hummock-covered suface, with seams of limestone breaking the surface in the S half. A shallow E–W central dip marks a tractor route through the interior, bracketted at E by a gap (Wth 4m), possibly an original entrance, in the enclosing wall, and at W by a levelled section of wall. Attached images: DG104.013----_01.JPG enclosure viewed from E DG104.013----_02.JPG enclosing stone bank/wall Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2015

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garvanagh.

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 Garvanagh, 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 Garvanagh.

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 Garvanagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Garvanagh

Area

3,350,573 m² (335.06 ha, 827.94 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbarron, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Cavangarden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

464 people lived in 153 households in the Cavangarden electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagrorty, Ballymagrorty Irish, Ballymagrorty Scotch, Ballynacarrick, Carricknahorna, Laheen, Rockhill, Tober

Placenames

Garvanagh 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.