Grannagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilthomas, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish An Ghreanach
- Area
- 64 ha
- 158 acres
- Land parcels
- 14
- registered freehold, median 30,185 m² (3.02 ha, 7.46 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grannagh, from 1,164 m² to 130,974 m² (13.1 ha, 32.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Grannagh 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
25 Jun 2025Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 160 sqm(H), 30.00 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560831
19 Feb 2024Conditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 196 sqm (house) & 23 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460164
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Grannagh.
Recorded monuments
- GA114-078 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
Named 'Giant's Grave' and marked on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a very small circular mound (diam. c. 7m) which was located at the NE end of a steep gravel hill named 'Giant's Hill'. The hill has since been quarried out and no visible surface trace of the monument survives. It was described in 1953 (SMR file) as a ‘low mound surrounded by a ditch and having at or near centre a degenerate chamber or cist, partly exposed’. According to local information, large quantities of unburnt bone came to light during quarrying operations, as well as one ‘small cut headstone’. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 27) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Grannagh.
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
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_835 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Grannagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Grannagh · An Ghreanach
- Area
- 639,795 m² (63.98 ha, 158.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilthomas, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Castleboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castleboy electoral division: 571 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bullaunagh, Bullaunagh, Grannagh, Limepark North
- Placenames
- Grannagh 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.