Garvlough
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltoghert, barony of Leitrim, Co. Leitrim; in Irish An Garbhlach
- Area
- 94.5 ha
- 234 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 108,951 m² (10.9 ha, 26.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garvlough, from 4,406 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres) to 241,462 m² (24.15 ha, 59.67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Garvlough 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 Garvlough 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 Garvlough.
Recorded monuments
- LE031-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
Located towards the top of a drumlin. This is an overgrown oval area (int. dims 39m E-W; 29m N-S) that slopes down to the E. It is defined by a slight bank (Wth of base 2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.65m) which is reduced to scarp at S, and an external fosse (Wth of base 1.8m; D 0.2m). The original entrance is not identified. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 15 October 2019
- LE031-106 Enclosure
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Garvlough.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1482 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Garvlough with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Leitrim.
The townland
- Name
- Garvlough · An Garbhlach
- Area
- 945,222 m² (94.52 ha, 233.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltoghert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Carrick-On-Shannon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrick-On-Shannon electoral division: 4,445 people in 1,721 households; 56% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughriman South, Clogher, Cornaslieve, Dromore, Greagh, Killasanowl, Kilmaddaroe, Lisduff
- Placenames
- Garvlough 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.