Gannavane Upper

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Gannavane Upper, from 721 m² to 819,073 m² (81.91 ha, 202.4 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Gannavane Upper 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.

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  construction of a new entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands on the Western side of the public roadway, to comprise of the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sightlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcored structure to access area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19738

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  upgrade of existing entrance from public roadway onto forestry lands on the Eastern side of the public roadway, to comprise the provision of splayed access, clear visibility sighlines, associated setting back of adjacent roadside boundaries, provision of associated surface water drainage, fences, finished hardcore structure to access area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19739

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  the construction of a two storey extension and the removal of a flat roof to front elevation and construction of a pitched roof and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181269

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Slievefelim to Silvermines Mountains SPA 004165

Recorded monuments

• LI008-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SW-facing slope, in an unplanted green area surrounded by forestry, in the angle of two forest roads, in the SE foothills of the Slievefelim Mountains. Depicted on the revised 1924 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped enclosure directly abutting a small field to NE. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised roughly D-shaped area (26.2m E-W; 21.2m N-S) enclosed by a low bank mainly reduced to a scarp (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3m) from ENE-S-W-NW that has been incorporated into a linear field boundary across the NE sector. Some small rubble boulders are consistently on top of the scarped edge, which may represent field clearance or stone which has been exposed from the fabric of the bank due to livestock erosion. The interior has a SW-facing slope. A single upright slab (H 0.37m; Wth 0.22; T 0.1m) which is triangular-shaped in elevation, protrudes from the top of the scarp at W. Some irregular-shaped slabs (L 0.3m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.8m) have been deposited in the W sector to form a low cairn-like feature. It is possible that this ringfort may have been reused as a children’s burial ground. Visible as an oval-shaped monument on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017. See attached ASI sketch plan and photos Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 July 2020

• LI008-010 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  Situated on a ridge of poorly drained land in upland area on the SE facing slope of Cullaun Mountain with commanding views of the surrounding countryside from NE-E-S-W. The summit of Cullaun Mountain with ring-barrow (LI008-003----) rises high above the monument 800m to NW. Low orthostats (H 0.3m) protruding above the surface of the heather-covered ground represents the the remains of a cist (L 3m x Wth 1m) roughly aligned N-S which was covered by a low stone cairn (approx. ext. diam. 8.8m) the revetment of which is visible as low upright stones forming a roughly circular shaped outline which is clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Two prostrate stone slabs lying on the surface of the ground to the N of the upright orthostats appear to be the remains of displaced capstones. Could be the robbed-out remains of burial cairn with central cist, the presence of loose stones lying around the perimeter of the monument may be the remains of the original cairn material. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on information provided by John Carey Date of upload: 24 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Gannavane Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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 Gannavane Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Gannavane Upper · Gaineamhán Uachtarach

Area

2,151,225 m² (215.12 ha, 531.58 acres)

Civil parish

Doon, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Doon West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

266 people lived in 96 households in the Doon West electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buffanoky, Crehaun, Curraghafoil, Falleenadatha, Gannavane, Muingacree, Shanballyedmond (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Gannavane Upper 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.