Garnagale

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garnagale, from 160 m² to 287,335 m² (28.73 ha, 71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Garnagale 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.

• 21 Nov 2025Conditional

  for a. erection of single storey extensions to side and rear of existing dwelling, b. change of use of existing traditional farm out building to residential use to form extension to existing dwelling. c. internal modifications and renovations and associated elevational modifications . d. installation of new domestic waste water treatment system and percolation area. e. and all associated site development works

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 2560745

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct (i) slatted shed (ii) loose straw shed (iii) concrete yards and all associated site works at

  Permission · Kilkenny County Council, 18155

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 Garnagale.

Recorded monuments

• KK012-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a valley floor in flat grassland. There are quite good views in all directions. A roughly oval area (int. dims. 27m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.6m) and an external fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.6m). The grassy interior is slightly dished (falling to D c. 0.3m at centre). There is an entrance (Wth 4.5m) with a causeway over the fosse in the W quadrant. There are trees and scrub growing around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A little below the crest (W side) of a small hillock, on the W side, in rolling reclaimed grassland. There are fair views in all directions, with a small stream valley to the S and SW. The N portion and E side of a large enclosure (dims. c. 94m N-S; c. 48m E-W) are depicted on the 1900 revision of the OS 6-inch map. On the ground (dims. 80m N-S; 20m E-W) these surviving parts of a larger enclosure are defined on the E side by a bank (Wth 2m; int. H c. 0.5m), infilled fosse or berm (Wth c. 2.5m), outer bank (Wth 4m; H c. 1.5m) and probable outer fosse suggested by an outer band of soft and wet ground. On the N side only the inner bank survives. The bank is composed of course sand and gravel and is heavily overgrown with scrub. There is an entrance (Wth 5m) mid-way along the E side. N side consists of 20m length of inner bank. The S and W sides are not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-052001 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating terrain, under tillage. There is a ring-ditch (KK012-052002-) c. 45m to the E, a possible rectangular enclosure (KK012-052004-) c. 30m to the NE, an enclosure (KK012-051----) c. 180m to the NE and a ringfort (KK012-053----) c. 175m to the E. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) showing as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970). It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-052001-_01 CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-052002 Ring-ditch
  Description

  In undulating terrain, under tillage. There is an enclosure (KK012-052001-) c. 45m to the W, a possible rectangular enclosure (KK012-052004-) c. 40m to the NNW, an enclosure (KK012-051----) c. 160m to the NE and a ringfort (KK012-053----) c. 140m to the W. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) showing as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970). It is not visible at ground level. See attached photograph: KK012-052002-_01 CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-052003 Field boundary
  Description

  Listed as 'Linear Ditch Site' on the SMR (1987). Visible as a cropmark on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970). This is a levelled field boundary and is roughly on a similar axis to upstanding field boundaries in the vicinity, running in a broadly E-W direction. The evidence is insufficient to warrant its inclusion as an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-052004 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating terrain, in reclaimed grassland. There is a enclosure (KK012-052001-) c. 30m to the SW, a ring-ditch (KK012-052002-) c. 50m to the SE, an enclosure (KK012-051----) c. 100m to the NE and a ringfort (KK012-053----) c. 150m to the SE. A roughly rectangular enclosure (diam. c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S) shown as an upstanding earthwork on aerial photographs (CUCAP AOZ064, 13 July 1966). This feature has since been levelled and is not visible at ground level. It may have been a small paddock within a larger field. See attached photograph: KK012-052001-_01 CUCAP AZO064, 13 July 1966 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-053 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating terrain, under tillage. Indicated on both the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and the 1900 revision as a large roughly circular univallate enclosure (diam. c. 64m). It is visible as an upstanding monument on an aerial photographs (CUCAP AOZ064, 13 July 1966; BDL040, 15 July 1970) but has been levelled since then. One of the aerial photographs (CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970) shows the double arc of an earlier bivallate enclosure (KK012-101----) running under the SW quadrant of the later enclosure. See attached photograph: KK012-053----_01 CUCAP DBL040, 15 July 1970 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

• KK012-095 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating terrain, under tillage. The cropmark of a bivallate enclosure on visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP BDL040, 15 July 1970) and on an OS Ortho image (viewed 12 June 2019). Only a portion of the W side of the circular enclosure (int. dims. c. 38m; overall diam. c. 60m), with a gap of c. 12m between the inner and outer fosse, is visible. A later enclosure (KK012-053---) overlies the NE quadrant of this enclosure. It is also bisected by a field boundary running NNE-SSW. See attached photograph: KK012-095----_01 CUCAP DBL040, 15 July 1970 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 12 June 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Garnagale, 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 low.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Garnagale.

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.

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

Name

Garnagale · Cathair na nGiall

Area

992,076 m² (99.21 ha, 245.15 acres)

Civil parish

Tubbridbritain, and its townlands

Barony

Crannagh

Electoral division

Tubbridbrittain, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 101 households in the Tubbridbrittain electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynascarry (Butler), Ballynascarry (Gore), Garryhiggin, Graigaheesha (Co. Tipperary), Lisduff (Co. Tipperary), Newtown, Parks, Rathclevin

Placenames

Garnagale 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.