Garraunboy

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Garraunboy, from 330 m² to 295,046 m² (29.5 ha, 72.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Garraunboy 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.

• 27 Apr 2025Conditional

  modifications to the previously permitted dwelling house extension granted under Planning Permission Reference no. 22/730

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560373

• 29 Mar 2025N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560259

• 22 Jan 2025Conditional

  a domestic garage beside existing dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560039

• 30 Sept 2024N/a

  a domestic garage beside existing dwelling house and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460975

• 7 Mar 2023Conditional

  the development that will consist of: The demolition of 2 agricultural outbuildings, the demolition of the rear return and front annex of the existing cottage, the renovation of the existing cottage, the construction of a single storey and two storey extension, the construction of a garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all ancillary site works above and below ground

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360130

• 23 Sept 2021Conditional

  (a) the demolition of a single storey conservatory extension to rear, (b) the construction of a single storey extension to rear and single storey extension to front, (c) conversion of attached garage to habitable accommodation, (d) changes to existing roof profiles, (e) change of external finish from brick to render, (f) changes to existing window and door opes, comprising alterations to existing opes and forming new opes, to all four elevations at ground and first floor levels and (g) all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211323

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  extension of duration for 15/987

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207034

• 18 Mar 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey dwelling house including the installation of an effluent treatment system, vehicular entrance access and associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20235

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  stables and other associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 191292

• 14 Mar 2019Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house, front and side elevational changes, an amended entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19237

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Adare Woodlands 000429

Recorded monuments

• LI021-070 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 220) recorded the following details about Garraunboy (Garrán Buí) Castle and bawn (LI021-070001-); 'Garranbuidhe (O'Donovan, O.S.L., 8, p. 250), "The yellow wood" (Fitzgerald, i., p. 253); locally the "Yellow garden." 1583 Hugh Wall, or Falltagh, of Dunmoylin, when he joined the rebellion, owned Garrenboye C[astle]. (Des. R., 69). 1615 Held by Ol[iver]. Stephenson, of Dunmoylin, and confirmed to Ric. his son (Inq. Chan., 15b and 24b; Pat. R.). Confiscated from his representatives, 1655 (C.S., p. 52). Fabric - The O.S.L. only note it as "a ruin on a plain." It is an oblong peel tower 30 feet [9.1m] by 46 feet [14m], outside. The main wing had four wooden floors covered by a stone vault; there is a skew-loop on the second floor opening at the north-west angle, and another on the third floor at the north-east. There are numerous ambries and ogee headed window-slits. The end wing has the usual spiral stair with doors to each story to the south-west, and five stories with small rooms to the south-east. The lower rooms and top story are under vaults. All the southern face and most of the side walls of this part are gone. The peel stands in a bawn 63 feet [19.2m] east and west, 82 feet [25m] north and south. The walls 3 feet [0.9m] at top, and battered out to 6 feet [1.8m] below. The south wall and south-west turret are levelled. Turrets with vaulted roofs and 12 feet [3.65m] diameter, inside, remain at the three other angles. The peel tower dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Richard Stephenson of Dunmoylan, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Garraunboy which contained 'a ruined castle & bawne' (Simington 1938, 293). Classified by Donnelly (1999, 22, 37) as a Type 1A tower house which consists of a castle where the; 'ground floor entrance to the building leads to an entrance lobby. To one side of the entrance lobby is a doorway leading to a spiral staircase set in a corner of the building. To the other side is a doorway leading into a small chamber - the subsidiary chamber. The entrance lobby provides a direct route of access through to the main chamber.' Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 83) as follows; 'The outer wall of the thick end wall of a five storey tower 14m long by 9m wide has fallen although the rest still stands high, with a vault over the fourth storey. Closely surrounding the tower are remains of a small rectangular bawn with four D-shaped flankers between 4m and 5m in external diameter. One still retains a vault and three gunloops'. See attached plan of castle taken from Westropp 1906-7. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI021-070001 Bawn
  Description

  Westropp (1906-7, 220) recorded the following details about Garraunboy (Garrán Buí) Castle (LI021-070----) and bawn; 'The O.S.L. only note it as "a ruin on a plain." It is an oblong peel tower 30 feet [9.1m] by 46 feet [14m], outside. The main wing had four wooden floors covered by a stone vault; there is a skew-loop on the second floor opening at the north-west angle, and another on the third floor at the north-east. There are numerous ambries and ogee headed window-slits. The end wing has the usual spiral stair with doors to each story to the south-west, and five stories with small rooms to the south-east. The lower rooms and top story are under vaults. All the southern face and most of the side walls of this part are gone. The peel stands in a bawn 63 feet [19.2m] east and west, 82 feet [25m] north and south. The walls 3 feet [0.9m] at top, and battered out to 6 feet [1.8m] below. The south wall and south-west turret are levelled. Turrets with vaulted roofs and 12 feet [3.65m] diameter, inside, remain at the three other angles. The peel tower dates from about the middle of the fifteenth century'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Richard Stephenson of Dunmoylan, an Irish Papist, was the owner of Garraunboy which contained 'a ruined castle & bawne' (Simington 1938, 293). Castle and bawn described by Salter (2004, 83) as follows; 'The outer wall of the thick end wall of a five storey tower 14m long by 9m wide has fallen although the rest still stands high, with a vault over the fourth storey. Closely surrounding the tower are remains of a small rectangular bawn with four D-shaped flankers between 4m and 5m in external diameter. One still retains a vault and three gunloops'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020

• LI021-170 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, 80m N of a townland boundary with Boherbraddagh. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. 53m E-W; 42m N-S) bisected by a public road running N-S. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark bisected by the public road on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012 See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Garraunboy, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Garraunboy · An Garrán Buí

Area

1,044,073 m² (104.41 ha, 258 acres)

Civil parish

Clonshire, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Croagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

833 people lived in 248 households in the Croagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baurnalicka, Boherbraddagh, Clonshire Beg, Clonshire More, Coolballyshane, Kiltenan North, Rower Beg

Placenames

Garraunboy 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.