Ganty

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ganty, from 287 m² to 138,634 m² (13.86 ha, 34.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ganty 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.

• 14 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 132.66 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21593

• 8 Oct 2020Conditional

  for a) the change of use of domestic garage to living accommodation, b) the construction of a link corridor between the dwelling and the garage, c) for minor internal alterations and d) for all associated alterations and site development work to community dwellinghouse. Gross floor space of proposed works: 44 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201464

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 Ganty.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-092 Souterrain
  Description

  In pastureland. This inaccessible drystone-built souterrain was described by McCaffrey (1952, 156, no. 63) as a ‘large L-shaped souterrain, partially blocked’. On inspection one roof lintel was visible protruding through the sod cover. A house site (GA096-094----) lay c. 75m to the SSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 October 2019

• GA096-093 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular cashel (76.3m E-W; 70.5m N-S) defined by a fairly uniform drystone wall. A gap (Wth 2.6m) at WSW may be original. A souterrain (GA096-093001-) and a possible burial (GA096-093002-) are associated. (McCaffrey 1952, 157, no. 66) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

• GA096-093001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA096-093----). When inspected by McCaffrey (1952, 157, no. 66), the landowner claimed that there was souterrain within the cashel. No visible surface trace survived. A possible burial (GA096-093001-) is also associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

• GA096-093002 Burial
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA096-093----). When inspected by McCaffrey (1952, 157, no. 66), the landowner claimed that he had found 'adult human remains under the soil' in NE quadrant. A possible souterrain (GA096-093001-) is also associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2017

• GA096-094 House - indeterminate date
  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 Ganty.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ganty, Craughwell7 sales

Name

Ganty · Gaintí

Area

538,514 m² (53.85 ha, 133.07 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Moyode, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Moyode electoral division: 297 people in 100 households; 96% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Ballynageeragh, Caheradangan, Caherkinmonwee, Cappagh South, Coolraugh, Garracloon South, Gortagowan, Laughil, Treankyle

Placenames

Ganty 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.