Garrafin

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrafin, from 46 m² to 144,562 m² (14.46 ha, 35.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Garrafin 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.

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  construct a new dwelling, waste water treatment system and polishing filter, bored well, new site entrance and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Laois County Council, 2194

• 28 Aug 2020Conditional

  provide a new slatted tank and any associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 20445

• 12 Apr 2017Conditional

  provide a new slatted tank and any associated and ancillary site works

  Permission · Laois County Council, 17174

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

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Garrafin.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Garrafin.

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 Garrafin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois.

Name

Garrafin · Gairfin

Area

1,213,790 m² (121.38 ha, 299.93 acres)

Civil parish

Offerlane, and its townlands

Barony

Upperwoods

Electoral division

Arderin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Arderin electoral division: 292 people in 89 households; 80% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bughorn, Dernamanagh, Killeen, Knockannagad, Longford, Tinnakill

Placenames

Garrafin 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.