Garranstan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranstan, from 14 m² to 180,089 m² (18.01 ha, 44.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Garranstan 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.

• 11 Jul 2019Conditional

  for (1) erection of an extension to the side and rear of dwelling house, (2) erection of domestic garage/ storage shed and (3) position of dwelling as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 19475

• 10 Oct 2017Conditional

  retention permission of the utility storage shed/outhouses constructed to the rear of private dwelling

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17666

• 8 Sept 2017Conditional

  for retention permission in respect to "as constructed" extensions, ie (a) erection of conservatory to side of the dwelling house, (b) erection of 2 No. bedrooms with separate en-suites at first level and (c) erection of garage which is larger than permitted

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17592

• 31 May 2017Conditional

  for a single storey domestic garage, together with all associated site works at

  Retention · Kilkenny County Council, 17357

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: River Barrow and River Nore SAC 002162
• Special Protection Area: River Nore SPA 004233

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garranstan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garranstan, about 1 in 10 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Garranstan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Kilkenny.

Name

Garranstan · Garraí an Stanna

Area

859,446 m² (85.94 ha, 212.37 acres)

Civil parish

Kells, and its townlands

Barony

Kells

Electoral division

Kells, the unit of the census

Census 2022

681 people lived in 230 households in the Kells electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cotterellsrath, Garrynamann Lower, Garrynamann Upper, Kellsborough, Kellsgrange, Rathduff (Bayley)

Placenames

Garranstan 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.