# Garrough, Co. Laois: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killeshin, barony of Slievemargy, Co. Laois; in Irish Garbhach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 612,511 m² (61.25 ha, 151.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,732 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Killeshin, https://everytownland.com/laois/parish/killeshin.md - Barony: Slievemargy - Electoral division: Graigue Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 5,330 people lived in 1,774 households in the Graigue Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 67% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Laois, https://everytownland.com/laois.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/28855 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 100590 - Centre: latitude 52.849445, longitude -6.969418 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garrough, from 189 m² to 179,848 m² (17.98 ha, 44.44 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 255653: 179,848 m² (17.98 ha, 44.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255653.md - Parcel 239689: 125,315 m² (12.53 ha, 30.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/239689.md - Parcel 3935676: 101,245 m² (10.12 ha, 25.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3935676.md - Parcel 251835: 56,749 m² (5.67 ha, 14.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/251835.md - Parcel 250719: 34,685 m² (3.47 ha, 8.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/250719.md - Parcel 227158: 31,783 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227158.md - Parcel 233712: 30,744 m² (3.07 ha, 7.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/233712.md - Parcel 255631: 20,115 m² (2.01 ha, 4.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/255631.md - Parcel 5290465: 8,990 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5290465.md - Parcel 227022: 4,783 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/227022.md - Parcel 265315: 4,273 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265315.md - Parcel 240214: 3,191 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/240214.md - Parcel 265120: 2,491 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/265120.md - Parcel 259805: 2,260 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/259805.md - Parcel 260902: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/260902.md - Parcel 263213: 1,688 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/263213.md - Parcel 261594: 918 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/261594.md - Parcel 5290467: 791 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5290467.md - Parcel 5289345: 580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5289345.md - Parcel 267016: 442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/267016.md - Parcel 5290331: 332 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5290331.md - Parcel 4983275: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4983275.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 8 Dec 2020, Laois County Council 20649: Conditional. Permission. replace approximately 275m of existing 2.4m high chainlink fencing and associated gates with new 2.4m high green palisade security fencing/gates, new single leaf 1.2m wide emergency/personnel access gate and all associated site works at an existing Above Ground Natural Gas Installation. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/20649/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: River Barrow and River Nore SAC, site code 002162, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LA032-021: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLA032-021----. Circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 22-3). No visible surface remains. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garrough. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Garrough, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2405, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_2405.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/laois/garrough.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/laois/garrough.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/laois/garrough.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Garrough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Laois: https://everytownland.com/laois.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballykillen: https://everytownland.com/laois/ballykillen.md - Clonmore: https://everytownland.com/laois/clonmore-100362.md - Curragh: https://everytownland.com/laois/curragh-100472.md - Derrymoyle: https://everytownland.com/laois/derrymoyle.md - Harristown: https://everytownland.com/laois/harristown-100670.md - Sleaty: https://everytownland.com/laois/sleaty.md - Stanney: https://everytownland.com/laois/stanney.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/laois/garrough - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/laois/garrough