Garrafine

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrafine, from 1,932 m² to 167,827 m² (16.78 ha, 41.47 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 Garrafine 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.

• 7 Feb 2018Unconditional

  to construct slatted livestock unit abutting existing slatted livestock unit in accordance with documents lodged together with concrete slab and all ancillary site works and services (gross floor space 443.19sqm; slab 263.50sqm). Previous Planning Ref. No. 12/1220.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18115

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 Garrafine.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-083 Enclosure
  Description

  On level pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 40m by c. 30m). Apart from a faint vegetation band, oval in plan, no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-084001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a gentle W-facing slope in pastureland. Apart from a short featureless section of walling (E-W 4m, N-S 2m, H 2.3m max.), possibly SE corner of the building, no visible surface trace survives. According to local information, the castle fell down a number of years ago during hurricane Debbie. A CBG (GA060-084002-) lies immediately to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-084002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In grassland, on W-facing slope, c. 100m W of the td. boundary and adjacent to a castle (GA060-084001-). This CBG consists of an unenclosed slightly raised rectangular area (N-S 11m, E-W 10m); a modern field wall forms N boundary. Within the interior are numerous small set stones indicating graves oriented E-W; a small cross-inscribed slab, with the initials PK, stands in SE quadrant.(O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 248) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-085 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In grassland immediately E of a small stream. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (D 27.5m) defined by a bank from N through E to S; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere as a trackway encircles the monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA060-086 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 33m, E-W 31m) defined by a bank from N to ENE, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field bank overlies the scarp from E through S toW The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garrafine.

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.

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

Name

Garrafine · Gairfrian

Area

991,526 m² (99.15 ha, 245.01 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Annagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Annagh electoral division: 383 people in 136 households; 95% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creggaun, Esker, Garrafine (Trench), Kinclare, Lisgub East, Rathbaun, Scarreth

Placenames

Garrafine 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.