Grannagh

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Grannagh, from 58 m² to 281,122 m² (28.11 ha, 69.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 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.

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  for construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561054

• 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

• 26 Jan 2023Conditional

  for the development will consist of (a) 6 bay double row slatted shed and 2 no. slurry storage tanks - for the housing of animals, (b) machinery shed, (c) 2 no. walled silage silos (d) 1 no. walled manure pit (e) 1 no. walled sand bag storage pit (f) all associated site services, drainage and landscaping works. Gross floor space of proposed works 962.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360047

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house (area 224.50 sqm), domestic garage (area 40 sqm), waste treatment system, percolation area, along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212425

• 19 Jul 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a milking parlour and dairy, meal bin and water tank, two roofed slatted areas and cubicles, handling facilities, walled silage slab and aprons and all ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works 1525.165 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181033

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC 000318
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough 000318

Recorded monuments

• GA114-080 Enclosure - large enclosure
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a series of curving field boundaries suggesting the possible outline of a large circular enclosure (diam. c. 175m). Described by P. Holland (pers. comm.) as an 'earthen banked enclosure'. No visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is visible on the OSi digitalglobe aerial photograph. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 December 2017

• GA114-083 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 51m N-S; c. 47m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. The cartographic evidence suggests that it was a ringfort, probably a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 March 2019

• GA114-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 40.8m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (max. Wth 8.8m; Wth at top 1.3m; int. H 1.4m) is high and slopes steeply to the fosse. A large gap has been cut through it at NE. The fosse (Wth 4.3m) is wide and deep but has been infilled with rubbish and soil at NE. The outer bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.3m) only survives at S. A farmyard has encroached upon the monument at W resulting in the infilling of the fosse and the destruction of the inner bank. This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1981). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

• GA114-087 Barrow - stepped barrow
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 60m) with a central mound is shown. On inspection a well-preserved circular earthwork (diam. c. 10m) comprising a low platform of earth and stone with a small circular raised area (diam. c. 2m) at its centre was visible; possibly a mound barrow. A series of hollows and trenches surrounding the monument appeared to be modern. Quarrying had occurred on its S side. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• GA114-088 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pastureland, c. 30m to the NW of another much-larger ring-barrow (GA114-089----) and clearly visible on an aerial photograph taken in 1970 (CUCAP BDN 37). This ring-barrow (diam. c. 15.6m), which was partially excavated by Macalister (1917, 508-11) in 1916, comprised a central flat-topped mound (diam. c. 5.3m; H 0.6m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. Macalister examined an area (diam. c. 1.5m) in the centre of the mound and found three scattered unprotected cremations, some glass beads and a fragment of a bone pin. He suggested an Iron Age date for the monument. It was re-excavated in 1969 by E. Rynne (pers. comm.) who discovered traces of seven to nine cremations, most of which were concentrated in the fosse at NW and SE. Other finds included fragments of fibulae, glass and bone beads and a gaming piece. The monument has since been quarried out and no visible surface trace survives. (Armstrong 1923, 3) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• GA114-089 Inauguration site
  Description

  On a prominent gravel ridge, known locally as ‘Fahy's Hill’, in an area of flat pastureland. Regarded as a ringfort by Killanin and Duignan (1967, 69). Aerial imagery taken in 1970 (CUCAP BDN 37) shows that a large quarry was being developed immediately to its E. Consequently in 1971 a rescue excavation was undertaken by E. Rynne (pers. comm.) who described it as a large earthwork (max. diam. c. 68m) comprising a flat-topped mound (diam. c. 28m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. There was a gap (Wth 6m) at SE. Within the interior was a semicircular enclosure (diam. c. 5.5m) defined by a bank with an external shallow fosse. A number of seemingly haphazardly placed pits and/or post holes occurred in this area. Also found in this vicinity were two concentrations of cremated bones and one shallow cremation-burial. Rynne (ibid.) concluded that the exposed position and the complete lack of any trace of a hearth, together with the widespread scatter of small fragments of cremated bones, suggested that the site was not used for habitation but was more likely used for ritual purposes; it may have been an assembly place or an inauguration mound. No visible surface trace survives. A ring-barrow (GA114-088----) lay c. 30m to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 August 2019

• GA114-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hill slope in pastureland. Only the W section of this circular rath (diam. 25m) survives: it is defined by two well-preserved banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse from SW to NW. Elsewhere a low rise marks the line of the inner bank but no visible surface trace of the fosse or outer bank are evident. A souterrain (GA114-090001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

• GA114-090001 Souterrain
  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.

• GA114-091 Mound
  Description

  On the summit of a low hillock in pastureland. Poorly preserved small rectangular flat-topped grassy mound (10.7m N-S; 4m E-W; H 0.7m). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 July 2019

• GA114-092 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA114-178 Enclosure
  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.

• GA114-179 Enclosure
  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

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay vernacular house, built c.1800, western bay being two-storey and others being single-storey with loft. Flat-roofed porch of c.1950 to front elevation and lean-to recent extension to rear. Pitched slate roof to higher part, with rendered chimneystack, and half-hipped thatched roof with slighlty raised ridge to lower. Rendered walls. Square-headed timber sliding sash windows with stone sills. Outbuildings to rear of house.

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_871 (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.

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

Name

Grannagh · An Ghreanach

Area

2,049,007 m² (204.9 ha, 506.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

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

Ballinrooaun, Bullaunagh, Bullaunagh, Grannagh, Grannagh Beg, Limepark North, Moneen East, Moneen West, Pollacurra

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.