Garranekeevan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garranekeevan, from 97 m² to 230,118 m² (23.01 ha, 56.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Garranekeevan 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.

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  front porch extension and conversion of attic space with front first floor windows

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24362

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  the construction of 6 cattle underpasses and 1 cattle overpass. The underpasses will consist of concrete culverts beneath the Greenway surface to allow cattle crossing and to maintain the safety of pedestrian and cyclist users of the Greenway

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 208006

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Garranekeevan.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 45m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 2.2m), with an external fosse (D 1.4m; Wth 4m) SW->SE. Interior and much of enclosing element are covered by impenetrable overgrowth. According to local information there is a "cave" here, suggesting the presence of a souterrain. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI036-027 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture, immediately S of stream. Roughly D-shaped area (21.2m N-S; 22.1m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2.65m); scarp straightens NE->S. Scarp is very indistinct S->SW. Interior is level and entire site under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_464 (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.

No address of the register names Garranekeevan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Garranekeevan · Garrán Uí Chiabháin

Area

729,381 m² (72.94 ha, 180.23 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Rural electoral division: 2,491 people in 875 households; 68% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylahiff, Churchtown, Coolacokery, Dungeeha, Killard

Placenames

Garranekeevan 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.