Granshagh
Granshagh is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcaragh, barony of Clanmaurice, Co. Kerry. Its name in Irish is An Ghráinseach.
- Area
- 81.7 ha
- 202 acres
- Land parcels
- 10
- registered freehold, median 61,862 m² (6.19 ha, 15.29 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Granshagh, from 208 m² to 246,387 m² (24.64 ha, 60.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Granshagh 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
No planning application touches the townland of Granshagh 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.
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 Granshagh.
Recorded monuments
- KE015-078 Ringfort - rath
Description
This large bivallate enclosure appears on the 1841-42 OS map. It also appears on the 1916 edition, though the outer bank is not marked. This site shows up quite clearly on the Geological Survey of Ireland’s aerial photographs (!974), but has since been levelled. The above description is derived from Toal C. (compiler) ‘The North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority. (1995) no. 569. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 18 June 2013
- KE015-079 Ringfort - rath
Description
This circular enclosure lies SE of KE015-057---- and is marked on the 1841-42 and 1916 OS maps. It also shows up as a crop mark on the Geological Survey of Ireland's aerial photographs (1974). No surface trace is visible today. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 570. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Granshagh.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Granshagh, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_121 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Granshagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kerry.
The townland
- Name
- Granshagh · An Ghráinseach
- Area
- 817,045 m² (81.7 ha, 201.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcaragh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmaurice
- Electoral division
- Ballincloher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 461 people lived in 171 households in the Ballincloher electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincloher, Derryvrin, Gortadrislig
- Placenames
- Granshagh 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.