Garrough

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrough, from 198 m² to 454,397 m² (45.44 ha, 112.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Garrough 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Garrough in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks and Caragh River Catchment SAC 000365
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Killarney National Park, Macgillycuddy's Reeks And Caragh River Catchment 000365

Recorded monuments

• KE106-025 Hut site
  Description

  A drystone rectangular structure was recently removed from this location during land improvement operations (local information). It was located on a slight rise on the, E bank of the Coomnahorna river, overlooking Darrynane Bay to SW. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1440. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 1 August 2013

• KE106-026001 Stone row
  Description

  This four-stone row is located on a level terrace on the S side of the Coomnahorna river, and commands an extensive view along the valley to Darrynane Bay at W. A small enclosure occurs adjacent to it, and a pair of standing stones (KE106-023001-) is located less than 300m to SW. Set in pasture dominated by rock outcrop, the row has a general NE-SW orientation and measures 10.44m in overall length. Two of the stones lie prostrate. One of these, at NE, measures 1.4m x .6m x .25m; the pit in which it stood until recently is located 1m NE of the second stone. The latter stands 1.4m high, and measures 1.05m x .5m at base. The second prostrate stone lies 1.9m further to SW, and measures 3.7m x .8m x .5m. The tallest stone, 3.2m to SW, stands 3.38m high and inclines towards E; at base it measures 1m x .6m (Ó Nualláin 1988, 239). A roughly circular enclosure occurs 3m SE of the stone row. This appears as a bank, internally stone-faced, which averages 1.25m wide and 1m high. It encloses an area measuring 4.28m N-S x 4.62m E-W. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 111. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 28 July 2013

• KE106-026002 Enclosure
  Description

  For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 52, no. 111). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Kerry. Volume I: South-West Kerry' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE106-027 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 16.9m N-S, 16.6m E-W This circular caher is located on the summit of a steep-sided rocky knoll on the E side of the Coomnahorna river valley, overlooking Darrynane Bay to SW. The enclosing wall is roughly faced internally and externally with large slabs, and features a rubble core. It is much collapsed at NW and S, where the debris extends down the sides of the knoll. The wall survives to a maximum height externally of 2.5m at NE, and averages 2.95m wide. Its inner face is generally flush with the level of the site's interior. A well-defined entrance, 1.7m wide, is located at NE. Three portal slabs flank its coursed drystone sides, two on the N side and one at S; these average 1.25m high, .7m wide and .3m thick. Two large irregular slabs block the inner side of the entrance. Much loose stone is scattered throughout the level interior of the caher. Cave: An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE106-027001-), .8m x .5m, occurs close to the centre of the caher and gives access to a passage which extends NE-SW for a distance of 3.5m. Measuring .6m wide and .5m high, this passage features roughly coursed drystone walls and is roofed with large slabs. A small semicircular chamber opens off its SE side-wall at the NE end. This is 1m wide, .6m high and 1.3m deep, and is roofed with three lintels. The SW end of the passage opens into a second passage which extends 5.2m NW-SE. A rise in floor level blocks its NW end. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 589. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-027001 Souterrain
  Description

  Cave: An opening to a stone-built souterrain (KE106-027001-), .8m x .5m, occurs close to the centre of the caher and gives access to a passage which extends NE-SW for a distance of 3.5m. Measuring .6m wide and .5m high, this passage features roughly coursed drystone walls and is roofed with large slabs. A small semicircular chamber opens off its SE side-wall at the NE end. This is 1m wide, .6m high and 1.3m deep, and is roofed with three lintels. The SW end of the passage opens into a second passage which extends 5.2m NW-SE. A rise in floor level blocks its NW end. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 589. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

• KE106-028 Mine - copper
  Description

  In rough hill pasture, on the upper W-facing upper slopes of Coad Mountain. The 19th-century mine workings consist of two shallow gullies from which quartz rock was extracted. Nearby are three mounds of mainly quartz stones bearing the green stains of copper ore, the largest of which is c. 12m x 6m x 1.5m H. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

• KE106-058001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Calluragh Burial Ground: This burial ground is located in a prominent position on top of a rocky knoll, on the E side of the Coomnahorna river valley. Of irregular plan, 18m NE-SW x 19m NW-SE, its enclosing element is poorly preserved and is obscured by overgrowth. It is faced externally with horizontal courses of drystone masonry and is flush with the internal ground level. It is 1.8m wide and is overlain at E and S by modern field walls. The N limits of the site are marked by four massive sections of rock outcrop. Within its interior are a series of low, rectangular, stony mounds; these average 1.8m x 1.4m, with the longer axes orientated NW-SE. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 1013. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Garrough.

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 Garrough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.

Name

Garrough · Garbhach

Area

1,931,581 m² (193.16 ha, 477.3 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcrohane, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkerron South

Electoral division

Caherdaniel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Caherdaniel electoral division: 316 people in 138 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 58% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarnahan, Behaghane, Coad, Coomnahorna East, Coomnahorna West

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Garrough 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.